Sivadas Purameri
Sivadas Purameri, one of the prominent poets of Kerala who started writing after the heyday of modernism in Malayalam was born in Purameri, a village in Kozhikode district of Kerala State in 1966. He won many coveted awards for poetry such as Abudabi Shakthi Award (2010),Prof. Joseph Mundasseri Award (2004), Cherusseri Puraskaram (2013), N. N. Kakkad Award (2000), Moodadi Dhamodaran Award (2008),State Award for Poetry instituted by Art and Literary Council of Teachers(2003), Muravasseri Award (1994), Aroor Padmanabhan Memorial Award (2016) , KP Kayalad Sahithya Puraskaram(2021) Edasseri puraskaram (KACA-2022) etc.