K. B. Sreedevi

Koodalloor Brahmadathan Sreedevi (1 May 1940 – 16 January 2024) was an Indian writer, who wrote in Malayalam, under the genre of children's literature. She received several awards including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Overall Contributions and the Kerala State Film Award for Story.

Her granddaughter Ranjana K. made her novel Yajnam into a forty-five-minute film with the same title. When her work Niramala was made into a film, she did its screenplay, too.

Biography K. B. Sreedevi was born on 1 May 1940, in Vellakattumana in Vaniyambalam in present-day Malappuram district to V. M. C. Narayanan Bhattathippad and Gowri Antharjanam. Her father, Narayanan Bhattathiripad, was a progressive thinker. Initially, she studied in a building within the premises of her house. Realizing the hardships of children in the village walking kilometers to study, Narayanan Bhattathiripad, along with his friends, established a school in Wandoor town.

She married Brahmadathan Namboodiripad at the age of sixteen. Sreedevi, who lived in Thrissur for many years, later lived in Tripunithura in Ernakulam district.

K. B. Sreedevi died on 16 January 2024, at the age of 83.

Notable works

Study on woman writers of Kerala with grant in aid from Kerala Sahitya Akademi Nalapadan Award(2000) (Nalapat Narayana Menon- given by Nalapadan Memorial Cultural Society, Punnayurkulam) for Moonnam Thalamura Rotary Award 1982for Story, Niramala Njanappana Award 2021, considering her comprehensive contributions to the field of literature over six decades Raikva Rishi Award 2014 Amritakeerti Puraskar 2018