(The Story of a Street), a novel based on Mittai Theruvu, a popular street in Kozhikode known for sweetmeat and halvah stalls, received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel in 1961. His biographical novel, Oru Desathinte Katha was selected for the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1972. Eight years later, in 1980, the novel earned Pottekkatt the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour in India. In 1982, the University of Calicut honoured him with the honoris causa degree of the Doctor of Letters. India Post issued a commemorative postal stamp on him in 2003, as a part of their Jnanpith Award Winners. Malayala Manorama and Madhyamam issued festschrifts on Pottekkatt on the occasion of his birth centenary. Bibliography Novels Short stories Travelogues Poetry Drama Others Translations into other languages Many works are translated to Tamil by Su Ra. Films Moodupadam (1963) (based on the novel Moodupadam) Naadan Premam (1972) (based on the novel Naadan Premam) Pulliman (1972) (based on the story "Pulliman") Njavalppazhangal (1976) (based on the story "Njavalppazhangal") Ottakam (1978) (based on the story "Ottakam") Thaala (1988) Kadavu (1991) (based on the story "Kadathuthoni") Manikyam (2015) (based on the novel Prema Shiksha) References Further reading External links Ambikasuthan Mangad. Review of the famous story "Pulliman". ''Madhyamam Weekly. 1913 births 1982 deaths Indian travel writers Indian male novelists Indian male short story writers Indian diarists Indian memoirists Writers from Kozhikode Malayalam-language writers Malayalam novelists Malayalam short story writers Malayalam poets Recipients of the Jnanpith Award Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Malayalam Recipients of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award India MPs 1962–1967 20th-century Indian novelists 20th-century Indian poets Indian male poets Lok Sabha members from Kerala Politicians from Kozhikode 20th-century Indian short story writers 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights Indian male dramatists and playwrights Novelists from Kerala Poets from Kerala 20th-century Indian essayists Journalists from Kerala Dramatists and playwrights from Kerala 20th-century Indian male writers 20th-century memoirists 20th-century diarists