M.K. Sanoo, distinguished Malayalam critic, biographer, orator, retired professor, and former member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, died at 5.35 p.m. here on Saturday. Mr. Sanoo had been hospitalised for the past few days due to complications sustained from a fall. He was 97.

He was born on October 27, 1928, to M.C. Kesavan and K.P. Bhavani at Mangalath House in Thumpoly, then part of the erstwhile Travancore Kingdom, now in the Alappuzha district of Kerala.