 Kerala Sahitya Akademi honoured him with the distinguished fellowship in 1996 and two years later, he received the Vayalar Award.The Vallathol Award reached him in 1999 and the Government of Kerala awarded him their highest literary honour of the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram in 2005.He was also a recipient of G. Sankara Kurup Award, C. Achutha Menon Award, R. Sankaranarayanan Thampi Award, CV Raman Pillai Award and P. N. Panicker Award.