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K. Satchidanandan (1946) is an Indian poet[1] and critic, writing in Malayalam and English. A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual literary critic, playwright, editor, columnist and translator,[2] he is the former editor of Indian Literature journal and the former secretary of Sahitya Akademi.[3] He is also social advocate for secular anti-caste views, supporting causes like environment, human rights and free software and is a well known speaker on issues concerning contemporary Indian literature. He is the festival director of Kerala Literature Festival.[4][5]

Koyamparambath Satchidanandan
Born (1946-05-28) 28 May 1946 (age 76)
Pulloot, Trichur, Kingdom of Cochin
NationalityIndian
GenrePoetry, criticism, travelogue, translation, drama
Notable awards
  • Sahitya Akademi Award
  • Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
  • Gangadhar Meher Award
Signature

Life and career


Koyamparambath Satchidanandan was born in 1946 in Pulloot, a village in Kodungallur in the Thrissur District of Kerala.[6] After his early education in the village school, he studied biology at Christ College, Irinjalakuda, and had his Masters in English from Maharaja's College, Ernakulam. He obtained his PhD in post-structuralist poetics from the University of Calicut. He joined as a lecturer in English at K.K.T.M. Govt. College, Pulloot in 1968, and moved to Christ College, Irinjalakuda, in 1970 where he became a Professor of English. He voluntarily retired from this post in 1992 to take up the editorship of Indian Literature, the English journal of the Indian National Academy in Delhi. In 1996 he was nominated Secretary, the chief executive, of the Academy, a post from which he retired in 2006. Later he served as a Consultant to the Indian Government's Department of Higher Education and to the National Translation Mission. He also worked as Director, School of Translation Studies[7] and Training at the Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi.[8] He edited 'The Katha Library of Indian Literature', 'The Library of South Asian Literature' and Beyond Borders, a journal of South Asian literature and ideas.

Satchidanandan's literary career began with the publication of 'Kurukshetram', a collection of essays on poetry (1970) and 'Anchusooryan', a collection of poems(1971). Since then he has published several books of poetry, criticism, plays, travelogues and translations of poetry and plays and edited several magazines like 'Jwala', 'Uttaram' and 'Pachakkutira' besides many anthologies of poetry and essays in Malayalam, English, Hindi and Slovenian. He has represented India at several national and international literary events like Valmiki World Poetry Festival (Delhi,1985), Sarajevo Poetry Days (1985), Festival of India in the USSR (1988), Printemps des Poetes, France(2003), Berlin Literary Festival (2005), Frankfurt Book fair (2005, 2006), Paris Book fair (2007), Jaipur International Literary Festival (2008, 9, 10, 11,12), London Book fair (2009), Indo-Arab Literary Festival, Abu Dhabi (2008), Blue Metropolis Literary Festival, Montreal (20110, Hay Festival, Trivandrum, 2011) Rotterdam Poetry Festival (2012), Medellin Poetry Festival (2013), Festival of India in Latin America (2013), Sharjah Book fair (2013) and Vilenica Literary Festival, Slovenia (2014, 2015). This is besides readings in Lahore, Manchester, Dubai, Damascus, Aleppo, Bonn, Rome, Madrid, Avila, Segovia and all major cities in India. One of the most widely anthologised and translated of modern poets in India, he has 32 books of poems in 18 languages. He was given the Indo-Polish Friendship Medal by the Government of Poland in 2005 and the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2006.[9] He was in the Ladbroke list of Nobel probables in 2011.[3][10][11] A film on him, 'Summer Rain' was released in 2007.[12]

Satchidanandan is a National Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Simla. He co-edits two on-line journals, Guftugu and 1 Over the 8th. His poems appeared in many prestigious poetry anthologies like Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry,[13] The Dance of the Peacock,.[14][15]

He worked from 1996 to 2006, as the secretary of Sahitya Akademi. He returned to teaching after retiring from Sahitya Akademi, and worked as Director and Professor of the School of Translation Studies and Training at the Indira Gandhi National Open University in New Delhi until 2011.[16]

Satchidanandan is married, and has two daughters.


Awards and honours



Akademi awards



Other major awards and fellowships



Works in Malayalam



Poetry



Plays



Prose



Poetry translations in other languages



Prose translation in other languages



Original works in English



Translations into Malayalam



Poetry



Plays



Works on K. Satchidanandan



In Malayalam



In English



In German



In French



In Italian



References


  1. "Sahitya Akademi : Who's Who of Indian Writers". Sahitya Akademi. Sahitya Akademi. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  2. "Kerala's top literary award for K. Satchidanandan". The Hindu. 1 November 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  3. "K. Satchidanandan". Poetryinternationalweb. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  4. "K. Satchidanandan". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  5. "K. Satchidanandan -- Malayalam Writer: The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress New Delhi Office)". www.loc.gov. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  6. "K Satchidanandan – Manipal International Literature and Arts Platform 2017". M.I.L.A.P. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  7. "K. Satchidanandan (poet) – India – Poetry International". www.poetryinternationalweb.net. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  8. "Satchidanandan, K. (1946--) – Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism". www.rem.routledge.com. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  9. "An intuitive poet". www.tribuneindia.com. 6 November 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  10. "Satchidanandan in contention for literature Nobel race – Times of India". The Times of India. 5 October 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  11. Disha Global (24 January 2019). Summer Rain (Video) (in Malayalam). Vol. A biographic documentary on K. Satchidanandan. Moksh Films. 42.12 minutes in.
  12. "Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry". BigBridge.Org. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
  13. Grove, Richard. "The Dance of the Peacock:An Anthology of English Poetry from India". No. current. Hidden Brook Press, Canada. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  14. Press, Hidden Brook. "Hidden Brook Press". Hidden Brook Press. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  15. cite web|title="Poetry International": Profile Poet K Satchidanandan|url=http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/2723/27/K-Satchidanandan
  16. "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry". Kerala Sahitya Akademi. 24 January 2019. Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  17. "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Drama". Kerala Sahitya Akademi. 24 January 2019. Archived from the original on 16 May 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  18. "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Miscellaneous". Kerala Sahitya Akademi. 24 January 2019. Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  19. "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship". Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  20. "General Information – Sahitya Akademi Awards 2012 – Know India: National Portal of India". knowindia.gov.in. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  21. "P. Kunhiraman Nair Award". Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  22. "Asan Prize". Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  23. "Winners of Vayalar Award". www.keralaculture.org. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  24. "Padmaprabha Literary Award – Padma Prabha Puraskaram". www.keralaculture.org. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  25. "Kusumagraj National Award for poet K Satchidanandan". dna. 13 January 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  26. "Samastha Kerala Sahitya Parishad Award". www.keralaculture.org. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  27. "Satchidanandan chosen for Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar". The Hindu. 23 November 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  28. Staff Correspondent (30 December 2013). "Satchidanandan wins first Kuvempu Award". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  29. "Muttathu Varkey award for Sachidanandan". The Hindu. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  30. "Four Poets of Peace honoured in Dubai". gulfnews.com. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  31. "K Satchidanandan wins Mathrubhumi Literary Award 2020". Mathrubhumi. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
  32. "Poet K Satchidanandan bags ONV Award". Mathrubhumi. 13 February 2021.
  33. K. Satchidanandan (2000). Sambhashanathinu Oru Shramam. DC Books. ISBN 812640082X.
  34. K. Satchidanandan (2013). Thathagatham. Mathrubhumi Books. ISBN 9788182656475.
  35. K. Satchidanandan (2015). Nilkkunna Manuṣhyan. Kotayam. ISBN 9788126464036. OCLC 932618867.
  36. K. Satchidanandan (2016). Satchidanandante Kavithakal 1965 – 2015. DC Books. ISBN 978-8126466849.
  37. K. Satchidanandan (2017). Samudrangalkku Matramalla സമുദ്രങ്ങൾക്കു മാത്രമല്ല. DC Books.
  38. K. Satchidanandan (1995). Gandhi. Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad.
  39. Saccidānandan Dichter, Kritiker (1995). Summer rain : three decades of poetry. New Delhi: Nirala. ISBN 8185693900. OCLC 635847666.
  40. Saccidānandan (1998). How to go to the Tao temple and other poems. New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications. ISBN 8124105464. OCLC 39546331.
  41. Saccidānandan (2001). Apūrṇa aura anya kavitāem̐ (1. saṃskaraṇa ed.). Nayī Dillī: Rājakamala Prakāśana. ISBN 8126701854. OCLC 48222772.
  42. Saccidānandan (2001). So many births : three decades of poetry. New Delhi: Konark Publishers. ISBN 8122006035. OCLC 47667474.
  43. K., Satchidanandan (2011). While I Write : new and selected poems. [Place of publication not identified]: Harpercollins India. ISBN 978-9350290385. OCLC 941026657.
  44. K. Satchidanandan; Mícheál Ó hAodha, Gabriel Rosenstock (2012). Rogha Dánta: Selected Poems in Irish. Original Writing. ASIN B007A0FTMW.
  45. K., Saccidānandan (2016). The missing rib : collected poems 1973–2015. Mumbai. ISBN 9789382749400. OCLC 973480767.
  46. Saccidānandan (1999). Indian literature : positions and propositions. Delhi: Pencraft International. ISBN 8185753253. OCLC 41002974.
  47. K. Satchidanandan (2009). Readings, Indian Literature and Beyond. Yash Publications. ASIN 8189537687.
  48. "A Conversation with Satchidanandan" (PDF). Samyukta. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.

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