K. P. Sudheera

K. P. Sudheera is a Malayalam language writer from Kerala, India. She has published 80 works in various genres, including novels, poetry, travelogues, biographies, memoirs, translations, letters, and children's literature. Many of her works have been translated to Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages. K. P. Sudheera was born on 1958, in Puthiyara, Kozhikode, the daughter of K. C. Padmanabhan and Sarada. After studying in BEM Girls' High School, Kozhikode, she received her Bachelor's Degree in Zoology from Govt. Arts & Science College and Providence College. She is currently the manager of North Malabar Gramin Bank, Regional Division, Kozhikode. She and her husband T. M. Raghunath (Retd. Superintendent, Provident Fund Office, Kozhikode) have two children, Amit and Atul. They live in their house Visranthi in Kozhikode. Sudheera, who started writing at a young age, won a prize in an all-Kerala story competition while studying in college. Later, after joining in Gramin Bank, she became more active in writing. Renowned writer and literary critic M. Krishnan Nair wrote a very good comment about a story of her published at that time, that was her inspiration to write more. She has published 80 books in various genres, including novels, poetry, travelogues, biographies, memoirs, translations, letters, and children's literature. Many of her works have been translated to Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Kannada languages. Prabhakaran Hebbar Illam received the award Balakrishna Goenka Anoodith Sahitya Puraskaram for his Hindi translation of K. P. Sudheera's Ganga.