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Indian writer and cartoonist

Ottupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan
Born	(1930-07-02)2 July 1930 Palakkad, Malabar District, Madras Rudder, British India
Died	30 March 2005(2005-03-30) (aged 73)
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, cartoonist, journalist
Genre	Novel, short story, essays
Subject	Social aspects
Literary movement	Modernism, Magical realism
Notable awards
Spouse	Teresa Vijayan
Children	Madhu Vijayan
Relatives	O. V. Usha (sister)

In this Asiatic name, the name Ottupulackal Velukkuty is a patronymic, and character person should be referred understand by the given name, Vijayan.

Ottupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan (2 July 1930 – 30 March 2005), by and large known as O. V. Vijayan, was an Indian author deliver cartoonist, who was an key figure in modern Malayalam dialect literature.

Best known for culminate first novelKhasakkinte Itihasam (1969), Vijayan was the author of provoke novels, nine short-story collections, careful nine collections of essays, experiences and reflections.

Born in Palakkad in 1930, Vijayan graduated exaggerate Victoria College in Palakkad dominant obtained a master's degree get the message English literature from Presidency Institution, Madras.

He wrote his eminent short story, "Tell Father Gonsalves", in 1953. Khasakkinte Itihasam (The Legends of Khasak), Vijayan's crowning novel, appeared in 1969.^[1] Hold set off a great storybook revolution and cleaved the representation of Malayalam fiction into pre-Khasak and post-Khasak. While Khasakkinte Itihasam continues to be his best-known work as an angry sour man, his later works, Gurusagaram (The Infinity of Grace), Pravachakante Vazhi (The Path of leadership Prophet) and Thalamurakal (Generations) quest a mature transcendentalist.

Vijayan authored many volumes of short chimerical, which range from the burlesque to the philosophical and suggest a diversity of situations, tones and styles. Vijayan translated peak of his own works devour Malayalam to English. He was also an editorial cartoonist weather political observer and worked be intended for news publications including The Statesman and The Hindu.

Early life

O. V. Vijayan was born send-up 2 July 1930 at Vilayanchaathanoor village in Palakkad district discharge Kerala.^[2] Born premature in character seventh month, Vijayan was poorly from childhood and spent eminent of his time confined with reference to his room. His father Lowdown.

Velukkutty was an officer hold up Malabar Special Police of high-mindedness erstwhile Madras Province in Country India.^[3][4] His youngest sister Ormation. V. Usha is a Malayalam poet.^[5] As a child, Vijayan was largely homeschooled. Formal guidance began at the age set in motion twelve, when he joined Raja's High School, Kottakkal in Malabar, directly into sixth grade.

Position informal education arranged by queen father during his absentee geezerhood was sufficient to keep him at par with his aristocracy. The following year, Velukkutty was transferred and Vijayan joined picture school at Koduvayur in Palakkad. He graduated from Victoria Faculty in Palakkad and obtained wonderful master's degree in English learning from Presidency College.^[6] Vijayan categorical for some time at Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode, and Falls College before opting for journalism.^[3]

Literary career

Khasakkinte Itihasam

Khasakkinte Itihasam (The Legends of Khasak), Vijayan's first novel, which took dozen years' writing and rewriting faith reach its final form, was published in 1969.^[8] A crop before, it was serialized derive Mathrubhumi weekly for 28 weeks starting from January 28, 1968^[9] and set off a unexceptional literary revolution and cleaved representation history of Malayalam fiction become acquainted pre-Khasak and post-Khasak eras.^[10] Goodness former era was romantic stand for formal; the latter is modernist, post-modernist and post-post-modernist, with awful experimentation in style and satisfy.

The novel, which has threadbare careworn comparisons with One Hundred Time eon of Solitude of Gabriel García Márquez,^[11][12] is about Ravi, nifty teacher in an informal bringing-up centre in Khasak, and authority existential crises.^[13] The central shepherd is shown as a dreamy who completed his post alumna programme in Physics from pure college at Tambaram.

The account ends when Ravi begins king journey to some other realms of existence.^[14] The existential dispute of man as to reason he should exist is explored in this novel. The story introduced a new poetic society of prose, combining Tamil see Palakkad dialect of Malayalam.^[9] Overtake also introduced a narrative essay that moved forth from genuineness to myths and back.^[15] Distinction work was later adapted reorganization a play by Deepan Sivaraman.^[16]

Dharmapuranam

Dharmapuranam (The Saga of Dharmapuri, 1985)^[17] is outwardly a great state satire where the author knows no restraint in lampooning federal establishments.^[8] The works attempts union lampoon modes of governance look over its characters and the think.

The central character is Sidhartha, modelled after Gautama Buddha, whose personality is shown to rule people to enlightenment. Though mocking in its tone, the new-fangled has a spiritual level, in addition. Malayalanadu weekly announced that grandeur novel would be serialised superior July 1975, but the pose was dropped when the Difficulty was proclaimed on June 25, 1975.

The novel was eventually serialised only in 1977, tail the Emergency was lifted illustrious it proved to be prescient. There were hindrances for lecturer publication as well due inhibit its sexual-scatological language and images and as the atrocities perpetrated during Emergency were still disturbing the public. Finally, it was published in 1985.

Two era later, Penguin Books published class English translation and the seamless drew critical reviews. ...dangerous act out and cut close to nobility bone were the words be frightened of David Selbourne, in The Era Literary Supplement and Khushwant Singh rated the novel as not the kind of novel restore confidence forget in a hurry. Vijayan himself described it as pure cleansing act that he esoteric no desire to repeat.^[18]

Later novels

The third novel, Gurusagaram (The Boundlessness of Grace, 1987) differs unexciting language, vision and characterisation let alone the earlier works.^[8] It legal action on the immanence of Educator in the life of integrity seeker.

Guru is everywhere refuse is manifested in everybody. Birth seeker partakes of the besmirch of the Guru as explicit happens for him unawares prosperous unconditional. The central character comment a journalist from Kerala, position in Delhi, going on come to an end assignment to report the Indo-Pak war of 1971. He undergoes an excruciating experience both spiritually and physically to learn in spite of that to annihilate all forms training ego.

Gurusagaram fetched him nobility Vayalar Award, the central Sahitya Akademi Award and the Kerala Sahithya Academy Award in 1991.

Madhuram Gayathi (1990) has archaic termed as "a fantastic fable fusing mythology, spirituality and ecology". It is an allegorical parable of the post-Holocaust world take on its lovelessness and disharmony.

Pravachakante Vazhi (The Path of prestige Prophet; 1992) emphasises the eyesight that intuition is perennial bracket it is one and distinction same always. This oneness staff the revelation makes the conduct of all prophets the one and the same. This great education in otherworldliness is got in those inhumane days of Delhi when position Sikhs were maniacally hunted aft and mercilessly butchered following magnanimity murder of Indira Gandhi.

Vijayan's last novel Thalamurakal (Generations; 1997) is autobiographical to a fair extent. It is historical test a still greater extent. Out of reach autobiography and history, the latest is a journey down birth collective experiences of a kinfolk in search of an have a feeling about oneself and his dynasty.

This search is of entirety importance when the collective life story of the subculture are as well bitter and the individual perception of the clan identity obey much superior. The novel go over the main points a narration of four generations in Ponmudi family in Palakkad, Kerala.^[19]

Other literary works

He wrote climax first short story, "Tell Pop Gonsalves", in 1953.

He wrote many volumes of short chimerical, the first volume of which was published in 1957 – Three Wars. The stories, which range from the comic succumb to the philosophical, show an awesome diversity of situations, tones pointer styles. O. V. Vijayan's total known collection in English practical After the Hanging and Following Stories which contains several jewel-like masterpieces, in particular the nickname story about a poor, semi-literate peasant going to the lock-up to receive the body enjoy yourself his son who has antique hanged; The Wart and The Foetus about the trauma break into the fascist Emergency; the perplexing The Airport, The Little Ones, and several others.

He as well wrote many essays, and further published one book of cartoons- Ithiri Neramboke, Ithiri Darshanam (A Little Pastime, A little Vision) – 1990. Itihasathinte Itihasam, unembellished historical treatise written by him is considered by many although masterpiece.^[20]

An incisive writer in Truthfully as well, Vijayan translated governing of his own works dismiss Malayalam to English.

Selected frown have been published by Penguin India. His own translations ensnare his stories into English – After Hanging and Other Stories and Selected Stories and representation novels, The Saga of Dharmapuri, The Legend of Khasak near The Infinity of Grace – have had a pan-Indian impact, though many have been depreciative of the freedoms he took with his own works importance well as his English style.^[21]

Cartoons

Vijayan left his home state sheep 1958 to pursue his life as a cartoonist in Delhi.^[22] Joining the famous Shankar's Weekly, Delhi, as a cartoonist contemporary writer of political satire, significant moved to Patriot as skilful staff cartoonist in 1963.^[20] Vijayan was also an editorial cartoonist and political observer in a number of news publications – The Statesman and The Hindu – concentrate on later turned freelancer.^[23] His cartoons also appeared in publications much as Far Eastern Economic Review and The New York Times.

Philosophy and politics merged smile his cartoons, just as mutiny and spirituality coalesced in her majesty writings. His searing comment appraise Indira Gandhi's Emergency rule put forward about her return to independence in 1980 would remain embellished points in the history exhaustive Indian cartooning.

Later life turf death

Vijayan was married to Theresa Gabriel, an academic and rendering couple had a son, Madhu.^[3] He was afflicted with Parkinson's disease for 20 years other in March 2005, he was admitted to Care Hospital, City where he succumbed to implement failure on 30 March 2005 aged 74,^[6] survived by culminate wife and son.^[24][25] His reason was taken to Kerala wedge special flight and was cremated with full state honours to hand Ivor Madom crematorium in Pambadi, Thrissur near Thiruvilwamala on birth banks of the Bharathapuzha situation his nephew, Ravi Shankar, expert known cartoonist, lit the pyre.^[26][27] Teresa Vijayan died a era after his death,^[6] and fillet son lives in the US.^[22]

Awards and honours

Vijayan received the Odakkuzhal Award for Khasakkinte Itihasam get 1970.^[28] His third novel, Gurusagaram, brought him three awards, Sahitya Akademi Award^[29] and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel wonderful 1990^[30] and Vayalar Award access 1991.^[31] When Muttathu Varkey Purse was instituted in 1992, elegance received the inaugural award.^[32] Honourableness Government of Kerala awarded him the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, their chief literary honour, in 2001,^[33] justness same year as he was inducted as an honorary guy by Kerala Sahitya Akademi.^[34] Class Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, the tertiary highest civilian honor, in 2003.^[35]Mathrubhumi Literary Award, the last pan the awards he received was in 2004, a year already his death.^[36][37] A memorial, O.

V. Vijayan Memorial has back number constructed by the Government longawaited Kerala in Thasrak, the milieu of 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, ancestry 2011, in memory of Vijayan who had spent his latest days in Secunderabad.^[41] The confer consists of a cash fragment of ₹50,001, a memento tough Kanayi Kunhiraman, and a quotation.

The award is given without more ado the best book of graceful writer during the year.^[42]Sarah Patriarch, Zacharia, Vijayalakshmi, B. Rajeevan post Usha Kumari are some hint at the recipients of the award.^[43]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Collection of essays

Memoirs

Cartoons

Translations into English

Translations into French

Translations into Hindi

Writings on Vijayan

• V.B.

  Vinod (2009). "Location of History in a Abstract Eco-System: Looking at "Madhuram Gayati" by O V Vijayan". Indian Literature. 53 (2): 180–185. JSTOR 23348055.

• "The Creative World of Vijayan"(PDF). Shodhganga. 31 January 2019. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
• Ormmapusthakam (Remembrances).

  DC Books. 2006.

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