K Sreekumar

K. Sreekumar is a Malayalam language writer and journalist from Kerala, India. His book Malayalam Sangeetha Nataka Charitram, a book on Malayalam musical dramas won four awards, including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Scholarly Literature and the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award. For overall contribution to children's literature, he received the Bal Sahitya Puraskar, the children's literature award of Sahitya Akademi in 2012, and the C G Santhakumar Award, instituted by the Kerala State Institute of Children's Literature, in 2016. In 2023, he received Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2022, for his children's book Chakkkaramampazham.

Biography K. Sreekumar was born in Chottanikkara in Ernakulam district to K. M. Lakshmanan Nair and A. S. Visalakshi, on 31 December 1967. His parents were teachers. After completing his M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed. degrees in Malayalam literature and a P.G. Diploma in Journalism, he obtained a doctorate degree for research on Malayalam musical dramas.

Sreekumar's writing career was influenced by his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Malayalam at Maharaja's College, Ernakulam, under distinguished teachers such as Thuravoor Viswambharan, M. Thomas Mathew, K. G. Sankara Pillai, and George Irumbayam. During this period, he was also responsible for many publications under the Mathrubhumi Group, including the Mathrubhumi weekly and Sunday special editions of newspaper. Among them, the books related to drama or theatre include Malayalam Sangeetha Nataka Charitram (meaning: History of Malayalam Musical Theatre), Sebastian Kunjukunju Bhagavatar (biography of Malayalam theatre actor Sebastian Kunjukunju Bhagavathar), Orumugham - Janapriya Nataka Vediyude Midippukal, and Andrews Master, the biography of Malayalam theatre person Andrews Master, published by Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi. His notable works of children's literature include three volume book Nammude Nadodikathakalum Aythihyangalum (meaning:Our Folktales and Legends), published in 2010, Naradan, Ganapati, Karnan, Kunchirama Circus, Kuchelan, Lalithangi, Unnikatha, Viddi! Kushmanda, Ozhivukalam, Chakkaramampazham and Balakathasaram (published in 2018).

The children's book Soviet Naatile Balakathakalum Nadodikathakalum, on children's stories and folktales from Soviet Union was published in two volumes by Mathrubhumi. But one day, he unexpectedly called Sreekumar to his flat and asked him to write a biography. The book is written by combining information gathered from MT's relatives, friends, and cultural activists associated with MT, as well as things MT told him directly.

In 2012 May, he received the Sree Padmanabha Swami children's literature award, instituted by Gramam Samskarika Vedi for his children's novel Ozhivukalam. In 2016, he received the C G Santhakumar Award for overall contribution to children's literature, instituted by the Kerala State Institute of Children's Literature. He also received several other awards including Abu Dhabi Sakthi Award, Cherukad Award, Bhima Children's Literature Award, Yuva Puraskar of Calcutta Bharatheeya Bhasha Parishad, Kadavanad Award and SBT Award. In 2025, Sreekumar received the Federal Bank Literary Award for his biography of Malayalam writer M. T. Vasudevan Nair.

As a journalist Sreekumar also received the Kerala State Media Award for General Reporting. The award went to the news series Aashubhayatra Arakshitayatra, which deals with the problems of train travel in Kerala that time.