Haikumar is a Malayalam novelist and short story writer and novelist in Malayalam, the language of Kerala in South West India.
Born on 13 July 1943 in Ponani a coastal town between Calicut and Kochi.
Harikumar's parents were Edasseri Govindan Nair, a well-known poet and playwright, and E.
Janaki Amma, who in her early years had written poems and stories and translated Tagore's Fruit Gathering into Malayalam.
Married Lalitha.
Son Ajay, married.
Wife: Subha.
Harikumar was a member of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, the foremost literary institution under the Cultural Department of Government of Kerala, for two terms from 1998 till 2006.