Attoor Ravi Varma
Attoor Ravi Varma (27 December 1930 – 26 July 2019) was an Indian poet and translator of Malayalam literature. One of the pioneers of modern Malayalam poetry, Ravi Varma is a recipient of Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation, besides many other honours. The Government of Kerala honoured him with their highest literary award, the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, in 2012 and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi inducted him as their distinguished fellow in 2017.
Attoor Ravi Varma
- Name
- Attoor Ravi Varma
- Born
- 27 December 1930
- Birthplace
- Attoor, Trichur, Kingdom of Cochin
- Died
- 26 July 2019
- Place of death
- Trichur, Kerala, India
- Education
- Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Calicut University College, Trivandrum Malabar Christian College, Calicut
- Awards
- * 1996 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry
- Nationality
- India · British Raj · Dominion of India
- Occupation
- translator · poet · writer
- Honours
- Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award · Sahitya Akademi Award
- Languages
- Malayalam
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Attoor Ravi Varma (27 December 1930 – 26 July 2019) was an Indian poet and translator of Malayalam literature. One of the pioneers of modern Malayalam poetry, Ravi Varma is a recipient of Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award, Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation, besides many other honours. The Government of Kerala honoured him with their highest literary award, the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, in 2012 and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi inducted him as their distinguished fellow in 2017.
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• Name — Attoor Ravi Varma • Born — 27 December 1930 • Birthplace — Attoor, Trichur, Kingdom of Cochin • Died — 26 July 2019 • Place of death — Trichur, Kerala, India • Education — Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Calicut University College, Trivandrum Malabar Christian College, Calicut • Genre — Poetry, translation • Awards — * 1996 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry • 1997 Asan Smaraka Kavitha Puraskaram • 1997 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation • 2001 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award • 2005 P. Kunhiraman Nair Award • 2012 Ezhuthachan Puraskaram • 2015 Vani Samnvay Distinguished Translator Award • 2017 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship • Kendra Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize • Premji Award • E. K. Divakaran Potti Award • Mahakavi Pandalam Kerala Varma Kavitha Award
Biography
Biography
Attoor Ravi Varma was born on 27 December 1930 in Attoor, a small village in Trichur district of the erstwhile Kingdom of Cochin (now part of the south Indian state of Kerala) to Krishnan Namboothiri and Ammini Amma. He joined Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College, Calicut for his pre-university course but was expelled from college due to his involvement in left-wing politics. Later, he continued studies at Malabar Christian College before graduating in Malayalam with honours from the University College, Trivandrum. Subsequently, he joined Presidency College, Madras Malayalam department as a faculty where he had the opportunity to be in touch with M. Govindan, the noted writer, which helped him in the studies of Tamil language. He started his career as a teacher in Madras but returned to Kerala to work at Sree Neelakanta Government Sanskrit College Pattambi before joining the Brennen College, Tellicherry where prominent politicians Pinarayi Vijayan and A. K. Balan were his students. Ravi Varma was married to Sree Devi and the couple resided in Trichur. Ravi Varma died on 26 July 2019. He was 88 and was undergoing treatment for pneumonia in a private hospital in Trichur.
Poetry
Poetry
* * * * *
Translation from Tamil to Malayalam
Translation from Tamil to Malayalam
* * * * * • Bhakti kavyam (Translation of Nayanars and Azhvars)
Edited poems
Edited poems
*
Identity
Identity
Attoor Ravi Varma is recorded as having received Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award and Sahitya Akademi Award.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1930
Attoor Ravi Varma born at Thrissur.
2019
Attoor Ravi Varma died.
Legacy
Ravi Varma's poems ignored the metre and used free verse and he was one among the group of poets who pioneered modernism in Malayalam literature. His oeuvre consists of several poems compiled under three anthologies, translation of four novels from Tamil which include two of Sundara Ramaswamy and one of Rajathi Salma, two books of translation of Tamil poetry and an edited work of poems of young writers. It was Ravi Varma who translated the Bhakthi poems on the Malayalam calendar in vattezhuthu script published by Moozhikulam Sala.
Awards and honours
Attoor Ravi Varma received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry for his poetry anthology, Attoor Ravi Varmayute Kavitakal in 1996 and he received the Asan Smaraka Kavitha Puraskaram in 1997, the same year as he received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation for Oru Pulimarathinte Katha, his translation of the debut novel by Sundara Ramaswamy. The Sahitya Akademi chose the anthology, Attoor Ravi Varmayute Kavitakal, for their annual award in 2001 and the second part of Attoor Ravi Varmayute Kavitakal fetched him the P. Kunhiraman Nair Award in 2005. The Government of Kerala honoured Ravi Varma with their highest literary award of Ezhuthachan Award in 2012 and three years later, he received the 2015 Vani Samnvay Distinguished Translator Award. The Kerala Sahitya Akademi inducted him as a distinguished fellow in 2017. He is also a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize by Kendra Sahitya Akademi, Premji Award, E. K. Divakaran Potti Award, Deviprasadam Trust Award (2010), and Mahakavi Pandalam Kerala Varma Kavitha Award. Maruvili is a documentary film made on the life and work of Ravi Varma, directed by Anvar Ali.
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- 1."Poet Attur Ravi Varma passes away". Chennai: The Hindu. July 26, 2019. Retrieved July 28, 2019.
- 2.കെ വിശ്വനാഥ്, ആറ്റൂര് രവിവര്മ. കവിക്കും റിട്ടയര്മെന്റുണ്ട്; പക്ഷേ മനസ്സില് കവിത വന്നുകൊണ്ടേ ഇരിക്കും. Mathrubhumi.
- 3.സഹ്യനൊപ്പം തലപ്പൊക്കമുള്ള ആറ്റൂർ കവിതകൾ. ManoramaOnline.
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- 7.Back Matter. Journal of South Asian Literature. 15. 2. 1980. 40861198.
- 8.A nostalgic journey into Thrissur's past. The Hindu. 2003-02-15.
- 9.Amaresh Datta. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti. Sahitya Akademi. 1326–. 1988. 978-81-260-1194-0.
- 10.Contemporary social novel. The Hindu. 8 February 2010.
- 11.Staff Reporter. Malayalam calendar with new features. The Hindu. 4 August 2011.
- 12.Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry. Kerala Sahitya Akademi. 2019-04-06.
- 13.Asan Puraskaram - list of awardees. asaneducation.com. 2019-04-07.
- 14.oru pulimarathinte katha. keralaliterature.com.
- 15.Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Translation. Kerala Sahitya Akademi. 2019-04-07.
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- 17.Winners list of P. Kunhiraman Nair Award. www.keralaculture.org. 2019-04-07.
- 18.Ezhuthachan award for Attur Ravi Varma. The Hindu. 2012-11-23.
- 19.Aarif, Shabnam. എഴുത്തച്ഛന് പുരസ്കാരം ആറ്റൂര് രവിവര്മ്മയ്ക്ക്. malayalam.oneindia.com. 2012-11-22.
- 20.Attoor Ravi Varma Wins The Debut Vani-Samanvay Distinguished Translator Award. www.cityairnews.com.
- 21.Award Winner - Attoor Ravivarma. ILF Samanvay 2015.
- 22.Vani Foundation. www.vanifoundation.org.
- 23.K N Panikkar, Attoor Ravi Varma bag Kerala Sahitya Akademi fellowships. The New Indian Express.
- 24.Kerala Sahitya Akademi awards announced. The Hindu. 2019-01-24.
- 25.Basu, Bubla. A gush of poetry and paeans in documentary on Malayalam writer Attoor Ravi Varma. Scroll.in.
- 26.Ezhuthachan Puraskaram for Attoor. The New Indian Express.
- 27."Awards, Trusts and Scholarships: 2. Deviprasaadam Trust". Namboothiri.com. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
- 28.Maruvili: A picture of Attoor Ravivarma's poetic word. Times of India Blog. 2016-03-17.
- 29.Attoor Ravivarma's poetry is a ticking bomb: Anvar Ali. Times of India Blog. 2016-03-16.
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