Vayala Vasudevan Pillai

Vayala Vasudevan Pillai (22 April 1945 – 29 August 2011) was a Malayalam-language playwright from Kerala, India. He was the disciple of eminent playwright G. Sankara Pillai. He directed over 40 plays. Some of his popular plays include ''Viswadarsanam'' (1977), ''Thulaseevaram'' (1979), ''Agni'' (1982), ''Rangabhasha'' (1984), ''Varavelpu'' (1985), ''Kuchelagadha'' (1988), ''The Death of Nestling'' (1992), ''Suthradhara, Ethile... Ethile?'' (1993), ''Kunji Chirakukal'' (1994), and ''Swarnakokkukal'' (1999).

His work ''Agni'' won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981. He received the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award in 2002 and the Kendra Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2009 for his contributions to theatre - playwriting in Malayalam. He was the director of School of Drama, Thrissur for more than two decades. Provided by Wikipedia