C. V. Balakrishnan Explained

C. V. Balakrishnan
Birth Date:24 September 1952
Birth Place:Payyannur, Kerala, India
Occupation:Writer
Language:Malayalam
Nationality:Indian
Genre:Novel, novella, short story, essay, screenplay
Notableworks:Ayussinte Pusthakam
Disa
Kamamohitham
Atmavinu Sariyennu Thonnunna Karyangal
Awards:Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
Kerala State Film Award

C. V. Balakrishnan (born 24 September 1952) is an Indian writer of Malayalam literature.[1] His novels and short stories encompass the emotional issues related to mass culture, sexual politics, fate of the marginalised and institutionalised religions. An author of more than 60 literary works along with a few film scripts and film criticisms, his best known work is the novel Ayussinte Pusthakam (The Book of Passing Shadows).[2] He received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award thrice[3] and the Kerala State Film Award for Best Book on Cinema in 2002 for Cinemayude Idangal. In 2014, he won the Padmaprabha Literary Award.[4] [5]

Biography

Balakrishnan was born in Payyannur, Kannur district, Kerala.[6] After completing his school education, he took training in teaching and worked in various schools before shifting to Calcutta in 1979 where he worked as a freelance journalist. It was in Calcutta he began writing Ayussinte Pusthakam.

Ayussinte Pusthakam (The Book of Passing Shadows)

Ayussinte Pusthakam is considered one of the major works in the post-modernist Malayalam literature. Balakrishnan began writing this novel when he moved to Calcutta in late-1970s. An old edition of the Bible at St. Paul's Cathedral in Calcutta triggered the book in him. It took him three years to complete the novel. Says the author: "All the characters and villages of Christian settlers were in my mind long before I began thinking about writing Ayussinte Pusthakam. The characters are based on people I met during my course as a school teacher in a village in Kasaragod. I wrote Ayussinte Pusthakam at a time when I was going through an emotionally difficult period; my relation with my father was strained and I was feeling very lonely. Ayussinte Pusthakam is about loneliness." The book is also about sin and sadness, written in a style and language that have been judiciously borrowed from The Bible."[7] The novel was successfully adapted for the stage by suveeran in 2008. It won many Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Awards including one for the best play.

Bibliography

Novels

Novellas

Short story collections

Autobiography

Memoirs

Travelogues

Translations

Others

Filmography

Story, screenplay and dialogues
Story

Awards

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 'ആയുസ്സിന്റെ പുസ്തകം' ഇനി ഇംഗ്ലിഷിലും .
  2. News: C.S. Venkiteswaran reviews C.V. Balakrishnan's 'The Book of Passing Shadows' . The Hindu . 11 December 2021 . Venkiteswaran . C. S. .
  3. Web site: Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards . 28 June 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170924045103/http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/ml_aw3.htm . 24 September 2017 . dead .
  4. News: Novelist C V Balakrishnan chosen for Padmaprabha award . Business Standard India . 24 September 2014 . Press Trust of India .
  5. News: Malayalam novelist C V Balakrishnan chosen for Padmaprabha literary award . The Economic Times .
  6. Web site: പൊളിച്ചു മാറ്റിത്തുടങ്ങിയ തറവാടിന്റെ വരാന്തയിൽ, കണ്ഠമിടറി കഥാകാരൻ... Mathrubhumi. 12 October 2022 . 31 December 2022.
  7. Web site: The Hindu : Friday Review Thiruvananthapuram / Interview : Book of life. 20 July 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130720072910/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/05/16/stories/2008051650140300.htm . 31 December 2022. 20 July 2013 .
  8. Web site: Pramod P. Seban . അസാധ്യമായ സ്വപ്നങ്ങൾ . Puzha.com . 7 February 2023 . ml . 1 August 2011.
  9. Web site: Rahul Radhakrishnan . അശാന്തിയുടെ ഭൂവിടം . . 7 February 2023 . ml . 31 May 2021.
  10. എന്നും ഞായറാഴ്ച ആയിരുന്നെങ്കില്‍: സിവി ബാലകൃഷ്ണന്റെ നോവലിനെക്കുറിച്ച് . . 15 June 2019 . K. B. Prasannakumar . 7 February 2023.
  11. Web site: എന്നും ഞായറാഴ്ച ആയിരുന്നെങ്കിൽ .
  12. Web site: അവന്റെ രക്തത്തിന്റെ ശബ്ദം ഭൂമിയിൽ നിന്ന് എന്നോടു നിലവിളിക്കുന്നു .
  13. Web site: രതിസാന്ദ്രത അവസാനിക്കുന്നില്ല .
  14. Web site: ദൈവവും പിശാചും മനുഷ്യരും പിയാനോ വായിക്കുമ്പോൾ . 4 June 2020 .
  15. Web site: പിയാനോ മീട്ടുന്ന അദൃശ്യവിരലുകൾ . 20 June 2020 .
  16. News: Pramod P. Seban . എഡ്വിനും പോളും സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നതെങ്ങനെ? . . 7 February 2023 . ml . 26 October 2016.
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  18. Web site: ചങ്ങലയുടെ ഭാരമില്ലാത്ത ഭ്രാന്തൻ കിനാവുകള്‍ .
  19. https://www.dcbooks.com/5th-edition-of-ente-priyappetta-kathakal-by-c-v-balakrishnan.html "സി.വി ബാലകൃഷ്ണന്റെ 20 ചെറുകഥകള്‍"
  20. https://dcbookstore.com/books/thiranjedutha-kathakal-c-v-balakrishnan "THIRANJEDUTHA KATHAKAL - C V BALAKRISHNAN"
  21. Web site: SPCS - NBS - National Book Stall - Kottayam .
  22. Web site: ഓർമ്മകളുടെ പരൽമീൻ .
  23. Web site: You are being redirected.... dcbookstore.com. 31 December 2022.
  24. Web site: അർബുദമെന്ന ശത്രുവിനോട് യുദ്ധംചെയ്ത് തന്റെ ശക്തിയൊക്കെ പോയെന്ന് പരിഭവിച്ച കക്കാട് . 14 July 2022 .
  25. Web site: പുസ്തകപരിചയം: ഏതേതോ സരണികളിൽ . 22 November 2019 .
  26. Web site: സ്‌കോട്ടിഷ്‌ ദിനരാത്രങ്ങൾ .
  27. Web site: You are being redirected.... dcbookstore.com. 31 December 2022.
  28. Web site: ഓര്‍മ്മ മാത്രം സി വി ബാലകൃഷ്‌ണന്‍ . Kerala Book Store . 7 February 2023.
  29. Web site: Cheraathukal: A new Malayalam anthology. The New Indian Express. 23 March 2021 . 31 December 2022.
  30. Web site: കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി അവാർഡുകൾ പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചു; വി.ജെ.ജയിംസിന്റെ 'നിരീശ്വരൻ' മികച്ച നോവൽ . 23 January 2019 . ManoramaOnline . 23 January 2019.
  31. News: Writer C V Balakrishnan honoured | Kozhikode News - Times of India . . 31 August 2017 .

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