Novelist Subhash Chandran has won this year’s Vayalar Rama Varma Literary Award for his novel “Manushyanu Oru Aamukham”.

The award, to be presented on October 27, Vayalar Rama Varma’s death anniversary, carries a purse of Rs. 1 lakh, statuette and citation. The purse has been increased from Rs. 25,000 earlier thanks to support from the Government of Kerala.

Mr. Subhash Chandran had won the Sahitya Akademi for the same novel last year.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Kerala / by C.  Gouridasan Nair / Thiruvananthapuram – October 10th, 2015