ONV Kurup was born in May, 1931 to O N Krishna Kurup and K Lakshmikutty Amma at Chavara, a coastal village in Kerala. His first poem "Munnottu" was published in a local weekly back in 1946. Poetry, according to ONV, was a drop of light that came to him from the dark solitude in his childhood. He worked as the chairman of Kerala Kalamandalam and is a Fellow of Kerala Sahitya Academy. He is one of the great poets Kerala has ever seen. To read more about him visit http://www.keral.com/celebrities/onv/
