page_title: Kavalam Narayana Panicker
section_title: Awards and recognition
hierarchical_section_title: Kavalam Narayana Panicker / Awards and recognition
caption_attribution_description: മലയാളം: കേരളത്തിലെ സാംസ്കാരിക, സാഹിത്യ മണ്ഡലങ്ങളിൽ ഒട്ടനവധി സംഭാവനകൾ നൽകിയ, ഇപ്പോഴും നൽകിക്കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന, ഒരു വ്യക്തിയാണു് ശ്രീ കാവാലം നാരായണപ്പണിക്കർ.
context_page_description: Kavalam Narayana Panicker was an Indian dramatist, theatre director, and poet. He has written over 26 Malayalam plays, many adapted from classical Sanskrit drama and Shakespeare, notably Kalidasa's Vikramorvasiyam, Shakuntalam, Bhasa's Madhyamavyayogam, Karnabharam, Uru Bhangam, Swapnavasavadattam, and Dootavakyam. He was the founder – director of theatre troupe, Sopanam, which led to the foundation of Bhashabharati: Centre for Performing Arts, Training and Research, in Trivandrum.
  He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Direction in 1983 by Sangeet Natak Akademi, and its highest award for lifetime achievement, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 2002. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in the field of Arts, by the Government of India. He died in his residence on 26 June 2016, aged 88, a few days after returning from the hospital.
context_section_description: He was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1983 and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 2002 and the Padma Bhushan civilian decoration in 2007.
  He has won Kerala State Film Award for Best Lyrics twice, in 1978 for Vadakakkoru Hridayam and in 1982 for Marmaram, and the Kalidas Samman by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in (1994–1995).
  Other
  2013 – TTK Prestige-Vanitha Film Awards – Best Lyricist – Amen
  Best Male Singer
  2013 – Asiavision Awards – Best Lyricist
caption: Kavalam Narayana Panicker
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