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E. V. Ramakrishnan

イーブイ・ラマクリシュナン

Ī Bī Ramakirusunan

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1951-03-23 （Vilayancode near Payyannur, Kannur district）
Nationality
India
Languages
English, Malayalam
Residence History
Kannur district, Kerala → Jalna, Maharashtra → Surat, Gujarat → Central University of Gujarat

Career

Occupations
Poet, Literary critic
Active Years
1973-2024
Affiliations
South Gujarat University, Central University of Gujarat

Education

Payyannur College
English
Country: India
Government Brennen College
English
Country: India
Devagiri College
English
Country: India
Marathwada University
English
Degree: PhD
Country: India
Aurangabad, Maharashtra

Awards

Sahitya Akademi Award
2023
Work: Malayala Novelinte Deshakalangal
Category: マラヤーラム文学批評
Organization: Sahitya Akademi
Result: Winner
Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism
1995
Work: Aksharavum Adhunikathayum
Category: 文学批評
Organization: Kerala Sahitya Akademi
Result: Winner
Odakkuzhal Award
2018
Work: Malayala Novelinte Desa Kalangal
Result: Winner
Dr. T. Bhaskaran Memorial Vaikhari Award
Work: Malayala Novelinte Desa Kalangal
Result: Winner
Prof. CVN Literary Award
2022
Work: Malayala Novelinte Desa Kalangal
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Terms of seeing: new and selected poems

2006 Poetry

New and selected poems by E.V. Ramakrishnan.

Modern poetry

A python in a snake park

1994 Poetry

Poetry collection.

Malayala Novelinte Deshakalangal

Literary criticism

Literary study on the timespaces of Malayalam novels.

Malayalam literatureNovel

Bibliography

  • Terms of seeing: new and selected poems
  • A python in a snake park
  • Being Elsewhere in Myself
  • Tips for Living in an Expanding Universe
  • The tree of tongues: an anthology of modern Indian poetry
  • Crisis and confession: studies in the poetry of Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath
  • Making it new: modernism in Malayalam, Marathi, and Hindi poetry
  • Mikhail Bakhtin: A Critical Introduction
  • Indigenous imaginaries: literature, region, modernity
  • Locating Indian literature: texts, traditions, translations
  • Narrating India: the novel in search of the nation
  • From myth to history: the trajectory of modernism in the poetry of Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, and Hindi
  • Literary Criticism in India: Texts, Trends and Trajectories
  • Aksharavum Adhunikathayum
  • Malayala Novelinte Deshakalangal
  • Viyojippinte vangmayangal
  • We speak in changing languages: Indian women poets 1990-2007
  • Bakhtinian explorations of Indian culture
  • Interdisciplinary Alter-natives in Comparative Literature
  • Culture, history, and politics: South Asian narratives

Translations by Author

  • Indian short stories: (1900-2000) (editor, translated to Tamil as Indiya Chirukathaigal)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Bilingual writingModernism
Recurring Motifs
Indian modernityRegional literature

Legacy

Indian bilingual (English-Malayalam) poet and literary critic. Recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award in 2023 for his work on Malayalam novels. Renowned for literary criticism.

Trivia

  • Sahitya Akademi Award winner for Malayalam (2023)
  • Emeritus professor at Central University of Gujarat