Author Award: Purogamana Kalasahitya Sangham Navkatha Puraskar

Ardra K.S was born in Keezhoor, Palakkad district. to K. Sreenivasan and K.R. Sreelatha. Graduated from the Regional Institute of Education, Mysore and secured her postgraduate degree from the Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University in Kerala. She is an M.Phil research student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. She has won the Mathrubhumi Vishupathip literary competition, the V.K.G. Literary Award, the Purogamana Kalasahitya Sangham Navkatha Puraskar, and the Khasakkin Ithihasam Suvarna Jubilee Katha Puraskar of the O.V. Vijayan Smaraka Samiti. One of her acclaimed works is Kamala Cult