Chathanath Achuthanunni

Chathanath Achuthanunni (born 1939) is a polyglot Malayalam writer, academic, literary critic, poet, and translator from Kerala, India. He holds degrees in Sanskrit and Malayalam and served as a professor and head of the Malayalam department at the University of Calicut. Achuthanunni is known for his critical studies of Indian literary theories, with significant contributions in linguistics, poetics, and literary criticism. He has received multiple honors, including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Overall Contributions (2011) and the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize (2022). His works include Vamanacharyante Kavyalankarasutravrithi, a study of Vamanacharya's Indian theory on literary style in Malayalam.