Gopikrishnan Kottoor is best known for his internationally acclaimed poem Father, Wake Us In Passing. Kottoor was poet-in-residence, with the University of Augsburg, Germany, in 2005.Gopikrishnan Kottoor has bagged the All-India Poetry Prize 2017. He has been a recipient of the All India Poetry Prizes in various categories in previous years. Gopikrishnan Kottoor is the founder of Poetry Chain which provides an umbrella for aspiring poets writing in English which has a reading and poetry discussion platform in Thiruvananthapuram.
He is best known for his internationally acclaimed poem Father, Wake Us In Passing. Kottoor was poet-in-residence, with the University of Augsburg, Germany, in 2005.
Gopi Kottoor won both the All-India Special Poetry Prize of the British Council-Poetry Society, India All India Poetry Competitions (AIPC) in 1997 for his poem 'These are the things we could talk about.' His poem 'Digging' won the second prize in the general category of the competition in 1997. Between 1995 and 1998, he won two more major poetry prizes presented by the British Council – Poetry Society (India)-sponsored All India Poetry Competitions (AIPC).
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