K Satchidanandan

K Satchidanandan is a bilingual poet, critic, playwright, editor, fiction writer and travel writer. He has thirty-two collections/selections of poetry in Malayalam, ten in English, seven in Hindi, and thirtycollections in other languages including Arabic, Irish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese besides all major Indian languages. He has won sixty-one literary awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award, Dante Medal from Italy, Poet Laureate Award from Tata Literature Festival, Bombay, five awards in five genres given by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi. Already a Fellow of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, K. Satchidanandan is now the President of the Akademi.