fiction.wikisort.org - WriterNalapat Balamani Amma (19 July 1909 – 29 September 2004) was an Indian poet who wrote in Malayalam. Amma (Mother), Muthassi (Grandmother), and Mazhuvinte Katha (The story of the Axe) are some of her well-known works.[1] She was a recipient of many awards and honours, including the Padma Bhushan,[2] Saraswati Samman, Sahitya Akademi Award, and Ezhuthachan Award.[3] She was the mother of writer Kamala Surayya.[4]
Indian poet (1909–2004)
Balamani Amma |
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Born | (1909-07-19)19 July 1909 Punnayurkulam, Ponnani taluk, Malabar District, Madras Presidency, British India (Now in Thrissur) |
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Died | 29 September 2004(2004-09-29) (aged 95) Kochi, Kerala, India |
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Occupation | Poet |
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Genre | Poetry |
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Notable awards | Padma Bhushan, Sahitya Akademi Award, Saraswati Samman, Asan Prize, Ezhuthachan Award |
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Spouse | V. M. Nair |
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Children | Kamala Surayya, Sulochana, Mohandas, Shyam Sunder |
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Biography
Balamani Amma was born on 19 July 1909[5] to Chittanjoor Kunhunni Raja and Nalapat Kochukutti amma at Nalappat, her ancestral home in Punnayurkulam, Ponnani taluk, Malabar District, British India. She had no formal education, and the tutelage under her maternal uncle and his collection of books helped her become a poet.[6] She was influenced by Nalapat Narayana Menon and the poet Vallathol Narayana Menon.[7]
At age 19, Amma married V.M. Nair, who became the managing director and managing editor of Mathrubhumi, a widely circulated Malayalam newspaper,[5][8] and later an executive at an automobile company.[9] She left for Kolkata after her marriage to live with her husband.[10] V.M. Nair died in 1977.[10]
Amma was the mother of writer Kamala Surayya, (also known as Kamala Das),[8] who translated one of her mother's poems, "The Pen", which describes the loneliness of a mother. Her other children include son Shyam Sunder, and daughter Sulochana.[5]
Amma died on 29 September 2004 after five years of Alzheimer's disease.[5] Her cremation was attended with full state honours.[11]
Poetry
Balamani Amma published more than 20 anthologies of poems, several prose works, and translations. Her first poem "Kooppukai" was published in 1930.[7] Her first recognition came when she received the Sahithya Nipuna Puraskaram, an award from Parikshith Thampuran, former ruler of Kingdom of Cochin. Nivedyam is the collection of poems of Balamani Amma from 1959 to 1986. Lokantharangalil is an elegy on the death of the poet Nalapat Narayana Menon.[12]
Collections of poems
- Kudumbini (1936)
- Dharmamargathil (1938)
- Sthree Hridayam (1939)
- Prabhankuram (1942)
- Bhavanayil (1942)
- Oonjalinmel (1946)
- Kalikkotta (1949)
- Velichathil (1951)
- Avar Paadunnu (1952)
- Pranamam (1954)
- Lokantharangalil (1955)
- Sopanam (1958)
- Muthassi (1962)
- Mazhuvinte Katha (1966)
- Ambalathilekku (1967)
- Nagarathil (1968)
- Veyilaarumbol (1971)
- Amruthamgamaya (1978)
- ’’Sahapadikal’’(1979)
- Sandhya (1982)
- Nivedyam (1987)
- Mathruhridayam (1988)
- To My Daughter (Malayalam)
- Kulakkadavil
- Mahavira
Awards and recognition
Her poetry earned her the titles of Amma (mother) and Muthassi (grandmother) of Malayalam poetry.[5][13] While delivering the Balamaniyamma remembrance speech at the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, described her as the "prophet of human glory" and said that her poetry had been an inspiration to him.[14] Writer and critic M. N. Karassery considered her a Gandhian, and believed her works should be revisited when people consider Nathuram Godse to represent Indian nationalism.[15]
She received many literary honours and awards, including the Kerala Sahithya Akademi Award for Muthassi (1963), Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for Muthassi (1965), Asan Prize (1989), Vallathol Award (1993), Lalithambika Antharjanam Award (1993), Saraswati Samman for Nivedyam (1995), Ezhuthachan Award (1995), and N. V. Krishna Warrier Award (1997).[12] She was also a recipient of India's third highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, in 1987.[16]
Legacy
The Kochi International Book Festival Committee created the Balamani Amma Award, with a cash award for writers.[15][17]
On 19 July 2022, Google honoured Amma with a Google Doodle on her birth anniversary.[18][19] She has been referred to as "the grandmother of Malayalam literature".[19]
References
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Padma Bhushan award recipients (1980–1989) |
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1986 |
- Pushpa Mittra Bhargava
- Ela Bhatt
- Manohar Lal Chibber
- Nasir Aminuddin Dagar
- V. Krishnamurthy
- Jean Riboud
- Sidney Dillon Ripley
- Rajeev Sethi
- Martand Singh
- C. Venkataraman Sundaram
- Badri Nath Tandon
- Gulshan Lal Tandon
- R. K. Trivedi
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1989 |
- Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway
- Banoo Jehangir Coyaji
- Girija Devi
- K. K. Hebbar
- Girilal Jain
- Anna Rajam Malhotra
- M. V. Mathur
- Ashesh Prosad Mitra
- Russi Mody
- Suresh Shankar Nadkarni
- Narinder Singh Randhawa
- Yoshio Sakurauchi
- Lakshman Singh
- Prakash Narain Tandon
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# Posthumous conferral
- 1954–1959
- 1960–1969
- 1970–1979
- 1980–1989
- 1990–1999
- 2000–2009
- 2010–2019
- 2020–2029
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Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam |
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1955–1975 | | |
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1976–2000 | |
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2001–present | |
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Sahitya Akademi Fellowship |
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1968–1980 |
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1968)
- D. R. Bendre, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Sumitranandan Pant, C. Rajagopalachari (1969)
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1970)
- Kaka Kalelkar, Gopinath Kaviraj, Gurbaksh Singh, Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1971)
- Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Mangharam Udharam Malkani, Nilmoni Phukan, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, Sukumar Sen, V. R. Trivedi (1973)
- T. P. Meenakshisundaram (1975)
- Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande, Jainendra Kumar, Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu', V. Raghavan, Mahadevi Varma (1979)
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1981–2000 |
- Umashankar Joshi, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, K. Shivaram Karanth (1985)
- Mulk Raj Anand, Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi, Amritlal Nagar, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, Annada Shankar Ray (1989)
- Nagarjun, Balamani Amma, Ashapurna Devi, Qurratulain Hyder, Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, Kanhu Charan Mohanty, P. T. Narasimhachar, R. K. Narayan, Harbhajan Singh (1994)
- Jayakanthan, Vinda Karandikar, Vidya Niwas Mishra, Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Raja Rao, Sachidananda Routray, Krishna Sobti (1996)
- Syed Abdul Malik, K. S. Narasimhaswamy, Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Rajendra Shah, Ram Vilas Sharma, N. Khelchandra Singh (1999)
- Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, Rehman Rahi (2000)
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2001–present |
- Ram Nath Shastri (2001)
- Kaifi Azmi, Govind Chandra Pande, Nilamani Phookan, Bhisham Sahni (2002)
- Kovilan, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Vijaydan Detha, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Amrita Pritam, Shankha Ghosh, Nirmal Verma (2004)
- Manoj Das, Vishnu Prabhakar (2006)
- Anita Desai, Kartar Singh Duggal, Ravindra Kelekar (2007)
- Gopi Chand Narang, Ramakanta Rath (2009)
- Chandranath Mishra Amar, Kunwar Narayan, Bholabhai Patel, Kedarnath Singh, Khushwant Singh (2010)
- Raghuveer Chaudhari, Arjan Hasid, Sitakant Mahapatra, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Asit Rai, Satya Vrat Shastri (2013)
- Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa, C. Narayana Reddy (2014)
- Nirendranath Chakravarty, Gurdial Singh (2016)
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Ananda Coomaraswamy Fellowship |
- Senake Bandaranayake, Chie Nakane, Azad N. Shamatov (1996)
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Recipients of Ezhuthachan Puraskaram |
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На других языках
- [en] Balamani Amma
[es] Balamani Amma
Nalapat Balamani Amma (Nalappat, India, 19 de julio de 1909 - 29 de septiembre de 2004) fue una poeta india que escribió en malayalam. Fue una escritora prolífica y fue conocida como la "poeta de la maternidad". Amma (Madre), Muthassi (Abuela) y Mazhuvinte Katha (La historia del Hacha) fueron algunas de sus obras más conocidas.[1] Recibió muchos premios y distinciones, entre ellos el Padma Bhushan,[2] Saraswati Samman, el premio Sahitya Akademi y el premio Ezhuthachan.[3] Fue madre de la reconocida escritora Kamala Surayya.[4]
[fr] Balamani Amma
Nalapat Balamani Amma (19 juillet 1909 - 29 septembre 2004) est une poétesse indienne écrivant en malayalam. Elle est une écrivaine prolifique et est connue comme la « poétesse de la maternité »[1]. Amma (Mère), Muthassi (Grand-mère) et Mazhuvinte Katha (L'histoire de la hache) font partie de ses œuvres les plus connues[2]. Elle reçoit de nombreux prix et distinctions, notamment le Padma Bhushan[3], Saraswati Samman (en), le prix Sahitya Akademi (en) et le Ezhuthachan Puraskaram (en)[4]. Elle est la mère de la poétesse de langue anglaise Kamala Surayya[5].
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