Sarah Joseph chosen for Kozhikode Corporations literary award

Writer Sarah Joseph has been chosen for the Kozhikode Corporation’s literary award in recognition of her total contribution to Malayalam literature. The award was instituted by the civic physique after Kozhikode was designated a UNESCO City of Literature in 2024.

The literary award carries a money prize of ₹1 lakh, a memento, and a quotation, and will likely be formally offered to Sarah Joseph at an occasion scheduled to be held right here in mid-August.

At a press meet held right here on Friday (August 1, 2025), Mayor Beena Philip introduced awards for writers throughout varied classes. Novelist R. Rajasree was chosen for the ladies’s class for her work Aathreyakam. Santhosh Aechikkanam’s Misaru received within the kids’s literature class, whereas Adarsh E (Aadi) obtained the younger author award for his poetry assortment Pennappan.

In the class of translation from Kannada to Malayalam, J. Gopalakrishnan’s Tejo-Tungabhadra was chosen for the award. The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told by A.J. Thomas received within the class of translation from Malayalam to different languages. Winners in every of the 5 classes will obtain a money prize of ₹25,000, a memento, and a quotation.

Only works revealed between 1 January 2022 and 31 May 2025 have been thought of. For the Young Writer class, choice was restricted to authors from Kozhikode to encourage native expertise, Ms. Philip mentioned.

A 3-member panel chosen the winners, with class heads together with Prof. S. Sivadas (kids’s literature), Shahina Ok. Rafeeq (ladies), U.Ok. Kumaran (total contributions), Dr. Radhika C. Nair (translations into Malayalam), and Prof. Nagesh (translations from Malayalam).

Last 12 months, the late author M.T. Vasudevan Nair was honoured with the Kozhikode Corporation’s Diamond Jubilee Award.