 Three years later, the book fetched him two more awards, the 1995 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award and the Vayalar Award (1995).The Kerala Sahitya Akademi inducted him as a distinguished fellow in 2000 and he received the inaugural Mathrubhumi Literary Award in 2001, the year of his death.He was also a recipient of the Samastha Kerala Sahithya Parishad Award.