death_place death_date children birth_place awards parents birth_date spouse article_title name occupation
mumbai 19 may 1998 balakrishna pillai , madhavankutty pillai ernakulam , kerala state , india india kerala sahitya academy award - 1992 kuttan pillai ammukutty amma 22 november 1939 prabha m. p. narayana pillai
 m. p. narayana pillai novelist , short story writer
m. p. narayana pillai

m. p. narayana pillai -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 22 november 1939 -- 19 may 1998 -rrb- , affectionately known as nanappan , was a journalist and prolific short story writer in malayalam .
he also wrote a novel `` parinamam '' -lrb- the evolution -rrb- that won the kerala sahithya academy award in 1992 .
however , he declined the award .
his work `` yathrakkidayil '' -lrb- in the journey -rrb- was considered to be a classic in malayalam short stories .
