{{Short description|Indian writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=September 2018}} {{Infobox writer | name = Sippy Pallipuram | image = Sippy PallipuramDSC 0057.JPG | imagesize = 150px | alt = | caption = Sippy Pallippuram | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|5|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Pallippuram, Ernakulam, Kerala, India | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer | nationality = Indian | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = {{ubl|''Unnikalkku Noottiyettu Gurudeva Kathakal''|''Oridathoru Kunjunni''|''Thathakalude Gramam''|''Appuppan Thadiyude Swarga Yathra''|''Pooram''}} | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = {{ubl|Kerala Sahitya Akademi Endowment|2010 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Children's Literature|2013 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Children's Literature}} }}
'''Sippy Pallippuram''' is an Indian writer of children's literature in Malayalam who has won several awards including Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award<ref name="thehindu">{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/lsquoChildrens-literature-has-been-neglected/article15764763.ece|title='Children's literature has been neglected' | date=1 October 2010 | newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=29 September 2018}}</ref> and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award.
== Works == His novel about the memories of Kunjunni Mash ''Oridathoru Kunjunni'' won the national award for children's literature by Kendra Sahitya Akademi.<ref name="newindianexpress">{{cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/article209993.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204511/http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/article209993.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2016|title=Writer Sippy Pallipuram honoured | newspaper=The New Indian Express|access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref> His book ''Unnikalkku Noottiyettu Gurudeva Kathakal'' received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Children's Literature in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/AkademiAward-2013_final.pdf |title=2013-ലെ കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി അവാര്ഡുകള് പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചു |publisher=Kerala Sahitya Akademi |date=December 2014 |access-date=28 December 2014}}</ref> A teacher by profession, he has over 80 (as of 2008)<ref name="thehindu2">{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article1242487.ece|title=Award for Pallippuram - KERALA | newspaper=The Hindu|access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref> poetries and stories to his credit in the children's category of Malayalam literature. Sippy has been into children's literature for more than four decades.<ref name="newindianexpress" />
He is a native of Pallippuram, Vypeen, Ernakulam, Kerala, and was born on 18 May 1943 in a Latin Catholics of Malabar family and belongs to the Diocese of Kottapuram.<ref name="newindianexpress2">{{cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/KRLCC-Awards-Announced/2014/05/17/article2229251.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160301054300/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/KRLCC-Awards-Announced/2014/05/17/article2229251.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 March 2016|title=KRLCC Awards Announced - The New Indian Express|publisher=newindianexpress.com|access-date=25 July 2016}}</ref>
List of awards Sippy has received over the years {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year !! Book !! Award |- | 2013 || Unnikalkku Noottiyettu Gurudeva Kathakal || Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award |- | 2010 || Oridathoru Kunjunni || Kendra Sahitya Akademi |- | 1988 || Thathakalude Gramam || Kairalee Children's Book Trust Award |- | || Appuppan Thadiyude Swarga Yathra || Kerala Sahitya Akademi Endowment |- | || Pooram || Bheema Children's Literature Award |- | || Thathakalude Gramam || Thrissur Sahrudaya Vedi Award |}
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