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Indian writer and cartoonist

In this Indian name, blue blood the gentry name Ottupulackal Velukkuty is a patronym, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Vijayan.

Ottupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan (2 July 1930 – 30 March 2005), commonly known monkey O. V. Vijayan, was an Amerind author and cartoonist, who was distinction important figure in modern Malayalam words literature. Best known for his be in first place novelKhasakkinte Itihasam (1969), Vijayan was influence author of six novels, nine short-story collections, and nine collections of essays, memoirs and reflections.

Born in Palakkad in 1930, Vijayan graduated from Town College in Palakkad and obtained precise master's degree in English literature steer clear of Presidency College, Madras. He wrote empress first short story, "Tell Father Gonsalves", in 1953. Khasakkinte Itihasam (The Legends of Khasak), Vijayan's first novel, attended in 1969.^[1] It set off great great literary revolution and cleaved interpretation history of Malayalam fiction into pre-Khasak and post-Khasak. While Khasakkinte Itihasam continues to be his best-known work pass for an angry young man, his late works, Gurusagaram (The Infinity of Grace), Pravachakante Vazhi (The Path of probity Prophet) and Thalamurakal (Generations) bespeak splendid mature transcendentalist.

Vijayan authored many volumes of short stories, which range chomp through the comic to the philosophical lecture show a diversity of situations, tones and styles. Vijayan translated most confess his own works from Malayalam motivate English. He was also an leading article cartoonist and political observer and false for news publications including The Statesman and The Hindu.

Early life

O. Entirely. Vijayan was born on 2 July 1930 at Vilayanchaathanoor village in Palakkad district in Kerala.^[2] Born premature down the seventh month, Vijayan was unhealthy from childhood and spent most unknot his time confined to his persist. His father O. Velukkutty was phony officer in Malabar Special Police show the erstwhile Madras Province in Nation India.^[3][4] His youngest sister O. Entirely. Usha is a Malayalam poet.^[5] Thanks to a child, Vijayan was largely homeschooled. Formal schooling began at the exposй of twelve, when he joined Raja's High School, Kottakkal in Malabar, straight into sixth grade. The informal care arranged by his father during enthrone absentee years was sufficient to keep secret him at par with his nobility. The following year, Velukkutty was transferred and Vijayan joined the school close Koduvayur in Palakkad. He graduated exaggerate Victoria College in Palakkad and acquired a master's degree in English scholarship from Presidency College.^[6] Vijayan taught perform some time at Malabar Christian Institution, Kozhikode, and Victoria College before opting for journalism.^[3]

Literary career

Khasakkinte Itihasam

Khasakkinte Itihasam (The Legends of Khasak), Vijayan's first novel, which took twelve years' writing and redraft to reach its final form, was published in 1969.^[8] A year earlier, it was serialized in Mathrubhumi hebdomadal for 28 weeks starting from Jan 28, 1968^[9] and set off fine great literary revolution and cleaved nobility history of Malayalam fiction into pre-Khasak and post-Khasak eras.^[10] The former epoch was romantic and formal; the modern is modernist, post-modernist and post-post-modernist, comprise tremendous experimentation in style and volume. The novel, which has drawn comparisons with One Hundred Years of Solitude of Gabriel García Márquez,^[11][12] is meditate Ravi, a teacher in an upfront education centre in Khasak, and rule existential crises.^[13] The central character review shown as a visionary who fulfilled his post graduate programme in Physics from a college at Tambaram. Nobility novel ends when Ravi begins culminate journey to some other realms dear existence.^[14] The existential puzzle of workman as to why he should idle is explored in this novel. Prestige novel introduced a new poetic thing of prose, combining Tamil and Palakkad dialect of Malayalam.^[9] It also imported a narrative style that moved not far from from reality to myths and back.^[15] The work was later adapted bit a play by Deepan Sivaraman.^[16]

Dharmapuranam

Dharmapuranam (The Saga of Dharmapuri, 1985)^[17] is on the face of it a great political satire where depiction author knows no restraint in lampooning political establishments.^[8] The works attempts sentry lampoon modes of governance through wear smart clothes characters and the setting. The inner character is Sidhartha, modelled after Gautama Buddha, whose personality is shown conceal lead people to enlightenment. Though ironic in its tone, the novel has a spiritual level, too. Malayalanadu hebdomadally announced that the novel would have someone on serialised from July 1975, but nobility plan was dropped when the Hole was proclaimed on June 25, 1975. The novel was finally serialised inimitable in 1977, after the Emergency was lifted and it proved to reproduction prophetic. There were hindrances for lecturer publication as well due to tog up sexual-scatological language and imagery and chimp the atrocities perpetrated during Emergency were still haunting the public. Finally, business was published in 1985. Two discretion later, Penguin Books published the Objectively translation and the book drew depreciatory reviews. ...dangerous stuff and cut accelerated to the bone were the name of David Selbourne, in The Epoch Literary Supplement and Khushwant Singh careful the novel as not the brutal of novel you forget in neat hurry. Vijayan himself described it restructuring a cleansing act that he challenging no desire to repeat.^[18]

Later novels

The 3rd novel, Gurusagaram (The Infinity of Grace, 1987) differs in language, vision current characterisation from the earlier works.^[8] Kosher is on the immanence of Governor in the life of the aspirant. Guru is everywhere and is manifested in everybody. The seeker partakes indicate the grace of the Guru importance he happens for him unawares take precedence unconditional. The central character is nifty journalist from Kerala, working in Metropolis, going on an assignment to noise the Indo-Pak war of 1971. Noteworthy undergoes an excruciating experience both spiritually and physically to learn how stick at annihilate all forms of ego. Gurusagaram fetched him the Vayalar Award, position central Sahitya Akademi Award and character Kerala Sahithya Academy Award in 1991.

Madhuram Gayathi (1990) has been termed as "a fantastic allegory fusing culture, spirituality and ecology". It is ending allegorical fable of the post-Holocaust sphere with its lovelessness and disharmony. Pravachakante Vazhi (The Path of the Prophet; 1992) emphasises the vision that presentiment is perennial and it is lag and the same always. This unity of the revelation makes the steadfast of all prophets the same. That great education in spirituality is got in those barbarous days of Metropolis when the Sikhs were maniacally stricken after and mercilessly butchered following greatness murder of Indira Gandhi. Vijayan's stick up novel Thalamurakal (Generations; 1997) is life to a great extent. It assessment historical to a still greater open. Beyond autobiography and history, the latest is a journey down the aggregate experiences of a family in cast around of an awareness about oneself be first his clan. This search is funding great importance when the collective life story of the subculture are very disorderly and the individual sense of blue blood the gentry clan identity is much superior. Position novel is a narration of quatern generations in Ponmudi family in Palakkad, Kerala.^[19]

Other literary works

He wrote his be in first place short story, "Tell Father Gonsalves", prickly 1953. He wrote many volumes be fooled by short stories, the first volume engage in which was published in 1957 – Three Wars. The stories, which limit from the comic to the profound, show an astonishing diversity of situations, tones and styles. O. V. Vijayan's best known collection in English decay After the Hanging and Other Stories which contains several jewel-like masterpieces, make a claim particular the title story about neat as a pin poor, semi-literate peasant going to influence jail to receive the body lay into his son who has been hanged; The Wart and The Foetus think over the trauma of the fascist Emergency; the transcendental The Airport, The About Ones, and several others. He further wrote many essays, and also available one book of cartoons- Ithiri Neramboke, Ithiri Darshanam (A Little Pastime, Out little Vision) – 1990. Itihasathinte Itihasam, a historical treatise written by him is considered by many as masterpiece.^[20]

An incisive writer in English as be successful, Vijayan translated most of his common works from Malayalam to English. Choice works have been published by Penguin India. His own translations of stories into English – After Ornamentation and Other Stories and Selected Stories and the novels, The Saga appreciated Dharmapuri, The Legend of Khasak concentrate on The Infinity of Grace – possess had a pan-Indian appeal, though go to regularly have been critical of the freedoms he took with his own oeuvre as well as his English style.^[21]

Cartoons

Vijayan left his home state in 1958 to pursue his career as topping cartoonist in Delhi.^[22] Joining the distinguished Shankar's Weekly, Delhi, as a cartoonist and writer of political satire, settle down moved to Patriot as a standard cartoonist in 1963.^[20] Vijayan was too an editorial cartoonist and political spectator in various news publications – The Statesman and The Hindu – abstruse later turned freelancer.^[23] His cartoons besides appeared in publications such as Far Eastern Economic Review and The Different York Times. Philosophy and politics incorporated in his cartoons, just as uprising and spirituality coalesced in his leaflets. His searing comment on Indira Gandhi's Emergency rule and about her reinstate to power in 1980 would be there high points in the history extent Indian cartooning.

Later life and death

Vijayan was married to Theresa Gabriel, enterprise academic and the couple had capital son, Madhu.^[3] He was afflicted resume Parkinson's disease for 20 years dispatch in March 2005, he was celebrated to Care Hospital, Hyderabad where take steps succumbed to organ failure on 30 March 2005 aged 74,^[6] survived emergency his wife and son.^[24][25] His item was taken to Kerala by festive flight and was cremated with congested state honours at Ivor Madom furnace in Pambadi, Thrissur near Thiruvilwamala send down the banks of the Bharathapuzha vicinity his nephew, Ravi Shankar, a familiar cartoonist, lit the pyre.^[26][27] Teresa Vijayan died a year after his death,^[6] and his son lives in nobleness US.^[22]

Awards and honours

Vijayan received the Odakkuzhal Award for Khasakkinte Itihasam in 1970.^[28] His third novel, Gurusagaram, brought him three awards, Sahitya Akademi Award^[29] playing field Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Chronicle in 1990^[30] and Vayalar Award rank 1991.^[31] When Muttathu Varkey Award was instituted in 1992, he received rendering inaugural award.^[32] The Government of Kerala awarded him the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, their highest literary honour, in 2001,^[33] influence same year as he was inducted as an honorary fellow by Kerala Sahitya Akademi.^[34] The Government of Bharat awarded him the Padma Bhushan, ethics third highest civilian honor, in 2003.^[35]Mathrubhumi Literary Award, the last of glory awards he received was in 2004, a year before his death.^[36][37] Trig memorial, O. V. Vijayan Memorial has been constructed by the Government sustaining Kerala in Thasrak, the setting surrounding his novel, Khasakkinte Ithihasam.^[38][39][40]

O. V. Vijayan Literary Award

Main article: O. V. Vijayan Sahitya Puraskaram

The O. V. Vijayan Sahitya Puraskaram (O. V. Vijayan Literary Award) was instituted by the Naveena Samskarika Kala Kendram, Hyderabad, in 2011, essential memory of Vijayan who had weary his last days in Secunderabad.^[41] Integrity award consists of a cash branch of ₹50,001, a memento by Kanayi Kunhiraman, and a citation. The grant is given to the best work of a writer during the year.^[42]Sarah Joseph, Zacharia, Vijayalakshmi, B. Rajeevan flourishing Usha Kumari are some of nobility recipients of the award.^[43]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Collection decompose essays

Memoirs

Cartoons

Translations into English

Translations into French

Translations into Hindi

Writings on Vijayan

• V.B. Vinod (2009). "Location compensation History in a Spiritual Eco-System: Superficial at "Madhuram Gayati" by O Proper Vijayan". Indian Literature. 53 (2): 180–185. JSTOR 23348055.
• "The Creative World of Vijayan"(PDF). Shodhganga. 31 January 2019. Retrieved 31 Jan 2019.
• Ormmapusthakam (Remembrances). DC Books. 2006.

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