E. V. Ramakrishnan
{{short description|Indian poet and literary critic}}
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| birth_place = Payyannur, Kannur district
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Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism
Odakkuzhal award
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E. V. Ramakrishnan is an English-Malayalam bilingual writer, poet and literary critic from Kerala, India. He received several awards, including the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism and the Odakkuzhal Award. In 2023 Ramakrishnan received the Sahitya Akademi Award for his literary study Malayala Novelinte Deshakalangal.
Biography
Born on 23 March 1951, at Vilayancode near Payyannur in Kannur district.{{cite web |title=books.puzha.com - Author Details |url=http://www.puzha.com/malayalam/bookstore/cgi-bin/author-detail.cgi?code=678 |date=23 September 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923093239/http://www.puzha.com/malayalam/bookstore/cgi-bin/author-detail.cgi?code=678 | archive-date=2012-09-23 }} After educated at Payyannur College, Government Brennen College and Devagiri College, he obtained his PhD from Marathwada University, Aurangabad (Maharashtra). He worked as lecturer in English at Jalna, Maharashtra in 1973-84 and then lecturer in the Department of English at South Gujarat University, Surat from 1985.{{cite web |title=E.V. Ramakrishnan |url=https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-14027_Ramakrishnan |website=www.poetryinternational.com |language=en |access-date=22 February 2023 |archive-date=22 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222070131/https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poets/poet/102-14027_Ramakrishnan |url-status=live }} He is now working as emeritus professor in Central University of Gujarat.{{cite web |title=സാഹിത്യവിമര്ശനം മധ്യവര്ഗ്ഗസംവേദനത്തില് ഒതുങ്ങി- ഇ.വി. രാമകൃഷ്ണന് {{!}} തുഞ്ചത്തെഴുത്തച്ഛന് മലയാളസര്വകലാശാല |url=http://malayalamuniversity.edu.in/ml/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8D%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%82-%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%A7%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%B0/ |website=malayalamuniversity.edu.in |language=ml-IN |access-date=22 February 2023 |archive-date=22 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222071627/http://malayalamuniversity.edu.in/ml/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B9%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8D%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%82-%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%A7%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%B0/ |url-status=live }}
The book Indian short stories : (1900-2000), edited by him and published by Sahitya Akademi has been translated to Tamil with title Indiya Chirukathaigal.{{cite book |title=Indiya Chirukathaigal: 1900-2000 |date=2011 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-8126029846}}
Works
=Poetry collections=
- {{cite book |title=Terms of seeing : new and selected poems |date=2006 |publisher=Konark Publishers |location=Delhi |isbn=81-220-0711-2}}
- {{cite book |title=A python in a snake park |date=1994 |publisher=Rupa & Co |location=New Delhi |isbn=81-7167-194-2}}
- Being Elsewhere in Myself (1980)
- Tips for Living in an Expanding Universe{{cite web |title=EV Ramakrishnan- Speaker in Kerala literature Festival KLF –{{!}} Keralaliteraturefestival.com |url=https://keralaliteraturefestival.com/speakers_more.aspx?id=Nzc1 |website=keralaliteraturefestival.com |access-date=22 February 2023 |archive-date=22 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222081533/https://keralaliteraturefestival.com/speakers_more.aspx?id=Nzc1 |url-status=live }}
=Literary criticism=
- {{cite book |title=The tree of tongues : an anthology of modern Indian poetry |date=1999 |publisher=Indian Institute of Advanced Study |location=Shimla |isbn=81-85952-70-1}}
- {{cite book |title=Crisis and confession : studies in the poetry of Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath |date=1988 |publisher=Chanakya Publications |location=Delhi |isbn=81-7001-034-9}}
- {{cite book |title=Making it new : modernism in Malayalam, Marathi, and Hindi poetry |date=1995 |publisher=Indian Institute of Advanced Studies |location=Shimla |isbn=81-85952-26-4}}
- {{cite book |title=Mikhail Bakhtin: A Critical Introduction |date=15 February 2023 |publisher=ORIENT BLACKSWAN PVT. LTD. |isbn=978-9354421563}}
- {{cite book |title=Indigenous imaginaries : literature, region, modernity |date=2017 |publisher=The Orient Blackswan |location=Hyderabad, Telangana, India |isbn=978-9386689450}}
- {{cite book |title=Locating Indian literature : texts, traditions, translations |date=2017 |publisher=The Orient Blackswan |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-9386392404}}
- {{cite book |title=Narrating India : the novel in search of the nation |date=2005 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |location=New Delhi |isbn=8126020725}}
- {{cite book |title=From myth to history : the trajectory of modernism in the poetry of Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, and Hindi from the 1950s to the 1970s |date=1991 |publisher=Centre for Social Studies |location=Surat |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/221711641 |language=en}}
- Literary Criticism in India: Texts, Trends and Trajectories, published by the Sahitya Akademi.{{cite news |title=Review: Literary Criticism in India edited by EV Ramakrishnan |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/reviewliterary-criticism-in-india-edited-by-ev-ramakrishnan-101633542907249.html |newspaper=Hindustan Times |date=6 October 2021 |language=en |first=Shafey |last=Kidwai |accessdate=6 May 2023 |archive-date=22 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222081318/https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/reviewliterary-criticism-in-india-edited-by-ev-ramakrishnan-101633542907249.html |url-status=live }}
- {{cite book |title=Aksharavum Adhunikathayum |date=1992 |publisher=Kerala Sahitya Akademi |isbn=9780000129451}}
- Malayala Novelinte Desa Kalangal (in Malayalam)
- Viyojippinte vangmayangal, DC Books, 2021 (in Malayalam)
- {{cite book |title=We speak in changing languages : Indian women poets 1990-2007 |date=2009 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-8126026739}} (with Anju Makhija)
- {{cite book |title=Bakhtinian explorations of Indian culture : pluralism, dogma and dialogue through history |date=2018 |publisher=Springer |location=Singapore |isbn=978-9811063121}} (with Lakshmi Bandlamudi)
=As editor=
- {{cite book |last1=Ramakrishnan |first1=E. V. |title=Interdisciplinary Alter-natives in Comparative Literature |date=2013 |publisher=SAGE Publications |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-8132111009}}
- {{cite book |title=Culture, history, and politics : South Asian narratives |date=2019 |publisher=RAWAT PUBLICATIONS |location=Jaipur |isbn=978-8131610619}}
Awards and honours
- Sahitya Akademi Award 2023 for his work Malayala Novelinte Deshakalangal.{{Cite news |last=Chakrabarty |first=Sreeparna |date=2023-12-20 |title=Sahitya Akademi Awards for 2023 announced |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/sahitya-akademi-awards-for-2023-announced/article67658599.ece |access-date=2023-12-21 |issn=0971-751X}}
- Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism for the work Aksharavum Adhunikathayum (1995){{cite news |title=Mathrubhumi Books - Awards |url=http://www.mathrubhumi.com/books/awards.php?award=15 |date=9 August 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120809050716/http://www.mathrubhumi.com/books/awards.php?award=15 | archive-date=2012-08-09 }}
- Odakkuzhal Award for his work Malayala Novelinte Desa Kalangal (2018){{cite news |title=ഡോ. ഇ.വി. രാമകൃഷ്ണന് ഓടക്കുഴൽ അവാർഡ് |url=https://archives.mathrubhumi.com/books/news/odakkuzhal-award-for-e-v-ramakrishnan-1.3465246 |work=Mathrubhumi Archives |language=ml |access-date=22 February 2023 |archive-date=22 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222070131/https://archives.mathrubhumi.com/books/news/odakkuzhal-award-for-e-v-ramakrishnan-1.3465246 |url-status=live }}
- Dr. T. Bhaskaran Memorial Vaikhari Award for his work Malayala Novelinte Desa Kalangal{{cite news |title=വൈഖരീ പുരസ്കാരം ഇ.വി. രാമകൃഷ്ണന് |url=https://www.manoramaonline.com/news/latest-news/2018/08/01/vykhiri-award-for-ev-ramakrishnan.html |work=ManoramaOnline |access-date=22 February 2023 |archive-date=22 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222070125/https://www.manoramaonline.com/news/latest-news/2018/08/01/vykhiri-award-for-ev-ramakrishnan.html |url-status=live }}
- Prof. CVN Literary Award for the work Malayala Novelinte Desa Kalangal (2022){{cite news |title=പ്രൊഫ. സി വി എൻ സാഹിത്യ പുരസ്കാരം ഇ വി രാമകൃഷ്ണന് |url=https://www.deshabhimani.com/books/prof-cvn-award/1027990 |work=Deshabhimani |language=ml |access-date=22 February 2023 |archive-date=22 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230222070124/https://www.deshabhimani.com/books/prof-cvn-award/1027990 |url-status=live }}
- U.G.C Career Award for young scholars (1987){{cite web |title=Dr. E.V. Ramakrishnan |url=https://www.franklin.uga.edu/sites/default/files/Ramakrishnan%20lecture%20flyer.pdf |publisher=Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |access-date=22 February 2023 |archive-date=29 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429185601/http://franklin.uga.edu/sites/default/files/Ramakrishnan%20lecture%20flyer.pdf |url-status=live }}
- Fellowship from Indian Institute of Advanced Study (1993)
- Fellowship from K. K. Birla Foundation (1999)
- Fulbright Fellowship (2001)
- Government of Canada Fellowship (2012)
References
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External links
- [https://www.ntm.org.in/download/ttvol/volume14-2/interview%201.pdf An Interview with E. V. Ramakrishnan]
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Category:People from Kannur district
Category:Recipients of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
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Category:20th-century Indian poets
Category:Academic staff of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University