K Satchidanandan

K.Satchidanandan is a poet of national and international repute writing in Malayalam. He was Professor of English at Christ College, Kerala, editor of Indian Literature, the journal of the Sahitya Akademi and later it’s Chief Executive.He has 21 collections of poetry in Malayalam besides 16 collections of world poetry in translation and 23 collections of critical essays and interviews. 

A film on him, Summer Rain was released recently. He has represented India in several international poetry festivals at Frankfurt, Paris, Moscow amongst others and has been honored with Knighthood by the Government of Italy.