Raja Ravi Varma Puraskaram

The Raja Ravi Varma Puraskaram (Raja Ravi Varma Award) is an annual award given by the Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Government of Kerala to a person showing excellence in the field of art and culture.[1] The award is named after Raja Ravi Varma, the Indian Malayali painter and artist. The Kerala state Government instituted this award to honour outstanding Kerala painters and sculptors in 2001. The first recipient was K G Subramanian.[2][3]

Raja Ravi Varma Puraskaram
Award for individual contributions to art and culture
Awarded forArt and culture award in India
Sponsored byKerala Lalithakala Akademi
Highlights
First winnerK. G. Subramanyan

List of winners
Year Awardee Image
2001 K. G. Subramanyan
2002 M. V. Devan
2003 A. Ramachandran
2004 Karuvattu Mana Vasudevan Namboothiri
2005 Kanayi Kunhiraman
2006 V. S. Valiathan
2007 M. F. Husain
2008 Gulam Mohammed Sheikh
2009 C. N. Karunakaran
2010 Ganesh Pyne
2011 C. L. Porinchukutty
2012 Yusuf Arakkal
2013 K. V. Haridasan
2014 Balan Nambiar
2015 Akkitham Narayanan[1]
2016 Anila Jacob[4]
2017 P. Gopinath[4]
2018 no award
2019 J.S. Khanderao[5]
2020 Vasudev Kamath[5]

References
  1. "Raja Ravi Varma Award". The Hindu. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  2. "HC stays Raja Ravi Varma award for Husain - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  3. "Raja Ravi Varma Puraskaram | Kerala Lalithakala Akademi". lalithkala.org. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  4. "Anila Jacob and P Gopinath receive Raja Ravi Varma Award - Times of India". The Times of India. 18 November 2019.
  5. Arora, Sumit (28 February 2020). "Raja Ravi Varma Award 2020 conferred". Adda247.
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