E Santhosh Kumar

E. Santhosh Kumar is a Malayalam writer whose literary repertoire spans short stories, novels, essays, children’s literature, travelogues and translations. He has published around 30 books and received several literary honours including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Short Story Collection (2005) and Novel (2012), the Kerala Children’s Institute Award (2010), and a Jury Prize at the Kerala State Film Awards for Story (2017). His novel Thapomoyude Achan won the 49th Vayalar Award in 2025.

His works have been translated into several languages, including English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, Arabic, German, and Russian. He worked for three decades at a public-sector insurance company, from which he took voluntary retirement six years ago. He currently lives in Thrissur.