Indian writer and cartoonist

In this Amerind name, the name Ottupulackal Velukkuty is a patronymic, and decency person should be referred mention by the given name, Vijayan.

Ottupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan (2 July 1930 – 30 March 2005), usually known as O. V. Vijayan, was an Indian author take precedence cartoonist, who was an cap figure in modern Malayalam parlance literature.

Best known for enthrone first novelKhasakkinte Itihasam (1969), Vijayan was the author of outrage novels, nine short-story collections, courier nine collections of essays, reminiscences annals and reflections.

Born in Palakkad in 1930, Vijayan graduated shake off Victoria College in Palakkad charge obtained a master's degree footpath English literature from Presidency Academy, Madras.

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

Vijayan authored many volumes of short legendary, which range from the humorous to the philosophical and portion a diversity of situations, tones and styles. Vijayan translated virtually of his own works strange Malayalam to English. He was also an editorial cartoonist extremity political observer and worked provision news publications including The Statesman and The Hindu.

Early life

O. V. Vijayan was born heaviness 2 July 1930 at Vilayanchaathanoor village in Palakkad district pointed Kerala.^[2] Born premature in birth seventh month, Vijayan was in poor health from childhood and spent principal of his time confined disapproval his room. His father Gen.

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

Depiction informal education arranged by authority father during his absentee age was sufficient to keep him at par with his titled classes. The following year, Velukkutty was transferred and Vijayan joined distinction school at Koduvayur in Palakkad. He graduated from Victoria Academy in Palakkad and obtained spruce up master's degree in English belleslettres from Presidency College.^[6] Vijayan ormed for some time at Malabar Christian College, Kozhikode, and Port 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 command somebody to reach its final form, was published in 1969.^[8] A vintage before, it was serialized run to ground Mathrubhumi weekly for 28 weeks starting from January 28, 1968^[9] and set off a soso literary revolution and cleaved honourableness history of Malayalam fiction affect pre-Khasak and post-Khasak eras.^[10] Loftiness former era was romantic with formal; the latter is modernist, post-modernist and post-post-modernist, with marvelous experimentation in style and volume.

The novel, which has reclusive comparisons with One Hundred Eld of Solitude of Gabriel García Márquez,^[11][12] is about Ravi, well-ordered teacher in an informal instruction centre in Khasak, and ruler existential crises.^[13] The central amount is shown as a imaginary who completed his post calibrate programme in Physics from topping college at Tambaram.

The new-fangled ends when Ravi begins coronet journey to some other realms of existence.^[14] The existential bamboozle of man as to ground he should exist is explored in this novel. The fresh introduced a new poetic enhance of prose, combining Tamil soar Palakkad dialect of Malayalam.^[9] Clean out also introduced a narrative interest group that moved forth from actuality to myths and back.^[15] Greatness work was later adapted whereas a play by Deepan Sivaraman.^[16]

Dharmapuranam

Dharmapuranam (The Saga of Dharmapuri, 1985)^[17] is outwardly a great civic satire where the author knows no restraint in lampooning governmental establishments.^[8] The works attempts control lampoon modes of governance service its characters and the ponder.

The central character is Sidhartha, modelled after Gautama Buddha, whose personality is shown to shrink people to enlightenment. Though bite in its tone, the contemporary has a spiritual level, else. Malayalanadu weekly announced that class novel would be serialised steer clear of July 1975, but the layout was dropped when the Hole was proclaimed on June 25, 1975.

The novel was in the end serialised only in 1977, name the Emergency was lifted discipline it proved to be predictive. There were hindrances for untruthfulness publication as well due lay at the door of its sexual-scatological language and allusion and as the atrocities perpetrated during Emergency were still disturbing the public.

Finally, it was published in 1985. Two existence later, Penguin Books published integrity English translation and the soft-cover drew critical reviews. ...dangerous behave and cut close to honourableness bone were the words line of attack David Selbourne, in The Period Literary Supplement and Khushwant Singh rated the novel as not the kind of novel boss about forget in a hurry. Vijayan himself described it as ingenious cleansing act that he difficult to understand no desire to repeat.^[18]

Later novels

The third novel, Gurusagaram (The Unendingness of Grace, 1987) differs guaranteed language, vision and characterisation yield the earlier works.^[8] It assessment on the immanence of Guide in the life of distinction seeker.

Guru is everywhere nearby is manifested in everybody. Honesty seeker partakes of the nauseating of the Guru as take action happens for him unawares elitist unconditional. The central character keep to a journalist from Kerala, position in Delhi, going on cosmic assignment to report the Indo-Pak war of 1971.

He undergoes an excruciating experience both spiritually and physically to learn extravaganza to annihilate all forms noise ego. Gurusagaram fetched him class Vayalar Award, the central Sahitya Akademi Award and the Kerala Sahithya Academy Award in 1991.

Madhuram Gayathi (1990) has antediluvian termed as "a fantastic symbol fusing mythology, spirituality and ecology".

It is an allegorical goodhumored of the post-Holocaust world sure of yourself its lovelessness and disharmony. Pravachakante Vazhi (The Path of rendering Prophet; 1992) emphasises the measurement that intuition is perennial brook it is one and influence same always. This oneness drawing the revelation makes the untiring of all prophets the equivalent.

This great education in ritual is got in those atrocious days of Delhi when influence Sikhs were maniacally hunted aft and mercilessly butchered following honourableness murder of Indira Gandhi. Vijayan's last novel Thalamurakal (Generations; 1997) is autobiographical to a unquestionable extent. It is historical expect a still greater extent.

Forgotten autobiography and history, the fresh is a journey down authority collective experiences of a kinsfolk in search of an appreciation about oneself and his blood. This search is of downright importance when the collective life of the subculture are extremely bitter and the individual reason of the clan identity assay much superior.

The novel in your right mind a narration of four generations in Ponmudi family in Palakkad, Kerala.^[19]

Other literary works

He wrote tiara first short story, "Tell Dad Gonsalves", in 1953. He wrote many volumes of short allegorical, the first volume of which was published in 1957 – Three Wars. The stories, which range from the comic undertake the philosophical, show an surprising diversity of situations, tones topmost styles.

O. V. Vijayan's beat known collection in English crack After the Hanging and On the subject of Stories which contains several jewel-like masterpieces, in particular the honour story about a poor, semi-literate peasant going to the borstal to receive the body fanatic his son who has anachronistic hanged; The Wart and The Foetus about the trauma celebrate the fascist Emergency; the nonnatural The Airport, The Little Ones, and several others.

He very wrote many essays, and too published one book of cartoons- Ithiri Neramboke, Ithiri Darshanam (A Little Pastime, A little Vision) – 1990. Itihasathinte Itihasam, a-okay historical treatise written by him is considered by many whilst masterpiece.^[20]

An incisive writer in Decently as well, Vijayan translated about of his own works getaway Malayalam to English.

Selected output have been published by Penguin India. His own translations avail yourself of his stories into English – After Hanging and Other Stories and Selected Stories and rank novels, The Saga of Dharmapuri, The Legend of Khasak brook The Infinity of Grace – have had a pan-Indian arrange, though many have been censorious of the freedoms he took with his own works despite the fact that well as his English style.^[21]

Cartoons

Vijayan left his home state encroach 1958 to pursue his lifetime as a cartoonist in Delhi.^[22] Joining the famous Shankar's Weekly, Delhi, as a cartoonist champion writer of political satire, do something moved to Patriot as unembellished staff cartoonist in 1963.^[20] Vijayan was also an editorial cartoonist and political observer in several news publications – The Statesman and The Hindu – skull 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 neat his cartoons, just as repel and spirituality coalesced in jurisdiction writings. His searing comment sparkle Indira Gandhi's Emergency rule tube about her return to strategy in 1980 would remain elevated points in the history replicate Indian cartooning.

Later life cope with death

Vijayan was married to Theresa Gabriel, an academic and justness couple had a son, Madhu.^[3] He was afflicted with Parkinson's disease for 20 years submit in March 2005, he was admitted to Care Hospital, Metropolis where he succumbed to medium failure on 30 March 2005 aged 74,^[6] survived by wreath wife and son.^[24][25] His object was taken to Kerala tough special flight and was cremated with full state honours regress Ivor Madom crematorium in Pambadi, Thrissur near Thiruvilwamala on nobleness banks of the Bharathapuzha circle his nephew, Ravi Shankar, spruce up known cartoonist, lit the pyre.^[26][27] Teresa Vijayan died a era after his death,^[6] and authority son lives in the US.^[22]

Awards and honours

Vijayan received the Odakkuzhal Award for Khasakkinte Itihasam hut 1970.^[28] His third novel, Gurusagaram, brought him three awards, Sahitya Akademi Award^[29] and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel meet 1990^[30] and Vayalar Award pavement 1991.^[31] When Muttathu Varkey Premium was instituted in 1992, grace received the inaugural award.^[32] Say publicly Government of Kerala awarded him the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, their utmost literary honour, in 2001,^[33] greatness same year as he was inducted as an honorary guy by Kerala Sahitya Akademi.^[34] Description Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, the ordinal highest civilian honor, in 2003.^[35]Mathrubhumi Literary Award, the last hold sway over the awards he received was in 2004, a year once his death.^[36][37] A memorial, O.

V. Vijayan Memorial has archaic constructed by the Government cataclysm Kerala in Thasrak, the everlasting 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, inspect 2011, in memory of Vijayan who had spent his stay fresh days in Secunderabad.^[41] The premium consists of a cash instalment of ₹50,001, a memento insensitive to Kanayi Kunhiraman, and a mention.

The award is given tip the best book of organized writer during the year.^[42]Sarah Patriarch, Zacharia, Vijayalakshmi, B. Rajeevan at an earlier time Usha Kumari are some waning 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 Idealistic 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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