Shyamkrishnan R.

Shyamkrishnan R. is a Malayalam language short story writer from Kerala, India. His short story collection Meeshakallan won many awards including the Yuva Puraskar by Sahitya Akademi.

Biography Shyamkrishnan was born in a small town named Kolachery in Kannur district of Kerala state, India. His father A.P. Rameshan was a former school headmaster, and his mother O.C. Prasanna is working as AEO of Kannur North. In 2015, when he was in his final year of MBBS, he received the KV Anoop Memorial Award for his story named Madakkam. Currently he is assistant professor of biochemistry at Malabar Medical College, Kozhikode. Other stories in the collection have won other regional awards also. and the KV Anup short story award given as part of the carnival of poetry held at Pattambi Government Sanskrit College.