N. V. Krishna Warrier

Warrier was married to Palakkattu Kattukulath Puthan Warriath Lakshmikutty Warasyar, the marriage taking place in 1948, and the couple had 3 daughters, Usha, Parvathy and Vani, all of them medical doctors. His death came on October 12, 1989 at Kozhikode at the age of 73.

Kerala Sahitya Akademi selected Krishna Warrier for their annual award for poetry in 1970, for his work, Gandhiyum Godseyum. Seven years later, he received the 1979 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for his book Vallatholinte Kavyasilpam (literary criticism). Kerala Sahitya Akademi honoured him again in 1986 with their Fellowship. He was also honoured by the University of Calicut by awarding him the degree of DLitt.

Warrier started his career as a tutor at the Government Sanskrit College, Tripunithura but moved to Sreemoolanagaram Sanskrit School and later to Brahmanandodayam Sanskrit School, Kalady. In 1942, he resigned from his job to participate in Quit India Movement and ran a newspaper, Swathanthra Bharatham while in hiding. Afterwards, he joined Govt High School Kodakara as a teacher and in 1948, joined Sree Kerala Varma College as its faculty. Subsequently, he had a short stint at Madras Christian College, too, before joining Mathrubhumi in 1952 as a member of its editorial board where he stayed until he was selected as the founder director of Kerala Bhasha Institute in 1968. After his superannuation from the institute in 1975, he rejoined Mathrubhumi as the chief editor; he also worked with Kunkumam weekly for a short while.

N. V. Krishna Warrier (May 13, 1916 – October 12, 1989) was an Indian poet, journalist, scholar, academician and political thinker. A prolific writer, Warrier's works covered the genres of poetry, drama, travelogue, translation, children's literature and science. He was a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry. The Kerala Sahitya Akademi honoured him with their fellowship in 1986, three years before his death in 1989.

Nerukkavu Variam Krishna Warrier was born on May 13, 1916 at Njeruvisseri, near Arattupuzha in Thrissur district of the south Indian state of Kerala to Padikkaparambu Warriath Achutha Warrier and Madhavi Warasyar. He had two brothers, Shankara Warrier and Achutha Warrier and a sister, Ikkalikutti Warasyar. His early schooling was at the primary school in Vallachira after which he studied at the Sanskrit school in Peruvanam where he had the opportunity to study under Meloth Raghavan Nambiar and Keshavan Elayathu, both Sanskrit scholars. Later, he studied grammar under B. Sankaranarayana Shasthri of Tripunithura Sanskrit School (present-day Government Sanskrit College, Tripunithura) to pass Vyakarana Bhooshanam examination and learned Kavyaprakasham and Dhwanyalokam under K. Rama Pisharodi to pass Kavya Shiromani examination. Simultaneously, he passed Hindi Visharad examination too.