Vallathol Award is a literary award given by the Vallathol Sahithya Samithi for contribution to Malayalam literature. The award was instituted in 1991 in memory of Vallathol Narayana Menon, one of the modern triumvirate poets (Adhunika kavithrayam) of Malayalam poetry. The prize includes a cash prize of 1,11,111 and a plaque.
Awardees Year Recipient Ref. 1991 Pala Narayanan Nair 1992 Sooranad Kunjan Pillai 1993 Balamani AmmaVaikom Muhammad Basheer 1994 Ponkunnam Varkey 1995 M. P. Appan 1996 Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai 1997 Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri 1998 K. M. George 1999 S. Guptan Nair 2000 P. Bhaskaran 2001 T. Padmanabhan 2002 M. Leelavathy 2003 Sugathakumari 2004 Ayyappa Paniker 2005 M. T. Vasudevan Nair 2006 O. N. V. Kurup 2007 Sukumar Azhikode 2008 Puthussery Ramachandran 2009 Kavalam Narayana Panicker 2010 Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri 2011 C. Radhakrishnan 2012 Yusuf Ali Kechery 2013 Perumbadavam Sreedharan 2014 P. Narayana Kurup 2015 Anand 2016 Sreekumaran Thampi 2017 Prabha Varma 2018 M. Mukundan 2019Zacharia
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