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Hridayakumari

フリダヤクマリ

Hridayakumari

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1930-01-01 （Aranmula）
Died
2014-11-08 age 84
Nationality
India
Languages
Malayalam, English
Residence History
Aranmula, Kerala, India → Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Career

Occupations
Writer, Educator, Scholar, Translator, Orator
Active Years
1946-2014
Affiliations
Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram, University College, Thiruvananthapuram, Maharajas College, Ernakulam, Brennen College, Thalassery, Victoria College, Palakkad
Influenced By
William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Kumaranasan, Changampuzha Krishna Pillai, Edappally Raghavan Pillai

Awards

Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
1991
Work: Kalpanikatha
Organization: Kerala Sahitya Akademi
Result: 受賞
S. Guptan Nair award
Result: 受賞
Captain Lakshmi Award
Result: 受賞
Shankaranarayanan Thampi award
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Kalpanikatha

1991 Literary criticism

A study of romanticism in literature, comparing English and Malayalam poets such as William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Kumaranasan, Changampuzha Krishna Pillai, and Edappally Raghavan Pillai.

RomanticismComparative literature

Ormakalile Vasanthakalam

Autobiography

An autobiography detailing her experiences as a teacher.

EducationMemoir

Translations by Author

  • Sugathakumari's poetry (Malayalam to English)
  • Vallathol Narayana Menon works (Malayalam to English)
  • Rabindranath Tagore works (English to Malayalam)
  • Rathrimazha by Sugathakumari (Malayalam to English)

Legacy

Known as a Malayalam writer, educator, and translator, she received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award. She had a 40-year teaching career, retiring as principal of Government College for Women in Thiruvananthapuram.

Trivia

  • Her father was poet and freedom fighter Bodheswaran.
  • Her sisters Sugathakumari and Sujatha Devi were also writers and social activists.
  • Her daughter Sreedevi Pillai is a journalist.