Kottarathil Sankunni
Kottarathil Sankunni was a wellknown author of Malayalam literature, born onMarch 1855 in Kottayam, Travancore. He made huge contributions in both poetry and prose. He died onJuly 1937. He started compiling the legends of Kerala in 1909 and completed the work in eight volumes over a quarter of a century. Aithihyamala , is a collection of stories of legends prepared by Kottarathil Sankunni. The works on the legends were collected and published by Sankunni in the famous Malayalam literary magazine of the nineteenth century, the Bhashaposhini. Later, they were collected in eight parts and published by the Reddiar Press in Quilon, sometime in the early twentieth century. Indias first writers cooperative, the National Bookstall started publishing these articles as collections on behalf of the Kottarathil Sankunni Memorial Committee in 1974 and later this was taken up by another publisher, D. C. Books, in 1991. Such is their popularity that, from 1991 till 2004 almost 150,000 copies
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