Edasseri Govindan Nair Explained

Edasseri Govindan Nair
Pseudonym:Edasseri
Birth Date:1906 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Kuttipuram, Malabar district, Madras Presidency, British India
Death Place:Cochin, Kerala, India
Occupation:Poet, playwright
Nationality:Indian
Genre:Poetry, plays
Spouse:Janaki Amma
Children:E. Harikumar
Relatives:P. Krishna Kurup (father)
Kunjukutti Amma (mother)

Edasseri Govindan Nair (ml|ഇടശ്ശേരി ഗോവിന്ദൻ നായർ; 23 December 1906 – 16 October 1974) was an Indian poet and playwright of Malayalam literature. Known as one of the major poets of Malayalam, Edasseri was a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry. He was also a recipient of Asan Smaraka Kavitha Puraskaram, which was awarded posthumously.

Biography

Edasseri Govindan Nair was born on 23 December 1906 at Kuttippuram, in Malapuram district in the south Indian state of Kerala to P. Krishna Kurup and Edasseri Kunjukutti Amma in a family with poor financial means.[1] He did not have much formal education due to the death of his father in 1921 when he was only 15 years old and started his career early as an assistant to a relative, who worked in Alappuzha. However, he compensated for the lack of formal education with hard work with voracious reading, learning Sanskrit and English on his own taking help from his friends, constantly engaging in debates on literature, criticism, science, astronomy and even astrology. He spent 7 years in Alleppey before moving to Kozhikode. In early 1930, he moved to Ponani. It was during this time that he married Janaki Amma, the wedding taking place in 1938. He continued with his learning, debates and discussions in Ponani also.[2]

Edasseri was associated with various literary and cultural forums. He sat in the general council of Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi and Samastha Kerala Sahitya Parishad and was a member of the board of directors of the Sahithya Pravarthaka Co-operative Society. He presided Kerala Sahithya Samithi and Kendra Kala Samithi during various periods and was instrumental in founding a local library, Krishna Panikkar Vayana Sala.

Edasseri's works include 19 books and over 300 poems in 10 anthologies, 6 books of plays and a collection of essays.[3] He was among the poets who changed the romantic traits of Malayalam poetry to realism.[4] His narrative style, as shown in his poems such as Poothapattu, Panimudakkam, Kalyana Pudava, Karutha Chettichikal and Kavile Pattu, was reported to reflect strong humanism.[5]

Govindan Nair - Janaki Amma couple had eleven children, though only eight survived infancy. He died on 16 October 1974, at the age of 67.

Awards

Edasseri received two awards from the Government of Tamil Nadu (the known as Government of Madras), the first one for his play, Koottukrishi and the other, for his poem anthology, Puthan Kalavum Arivalum. He received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry in 1969 for the poem anthology Oru Pidi Nellikka[6] and a year later, Sahitya Akademi awarded him their annual award for 1969 for Kavile Pattu, another of his anthology.[7] [8] He was awarded Asan Smaraka Kavitha Puraskaram posthumously in 1979, five years after his death, for the anthology, Anthithiri.

Literary works

Poem anthologies

Plays

Other books

Books on Edasseri Govindan Nair

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal . 2019-01-26 . Kerala Sahitya Akademi . 2019-01-26.
  2. Web site: A biographical sketch of Edasseri Govindan Nair . www.edasseri.org.
  3. Web site: Edasseri Govindan Nair Biography . 2019-01-27 . PoetrySoup . en . 2019-01-27.
  4. Book: K. M. George. Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys and poems. 1992. Sahitya Akademi. 978-81-7201-324-0. 251–.
  5. Book: M. Leelavathy. Edassery Govindan Nair. 1998. Sahitya Akademi. 978-81-260-0496-6. 76–.
  6. Web site: Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry . 2019-01-27 . Kerala Sahitya Akademi . 2019-01-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180626195512/http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/ksa/Awards/poetry.htm . 26 June 2018 . dead .
  7. Web site: Edasseri Govindan Nair Veethi . 2019-01-27 . veethi.com . 2019-01-27.
  8. Web site: KENDRA SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARDS (MALAYALAM) . https://web.archive.org/web/20070524212356/http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/awards.htm . dead . 2007-05-24 . 2007-05-24 . INFORMATION AND PUBLIC RELATION DEPARTMENT, Government of Kerala . 2019-01-27.
  9. Web site: Alakavali: Kavithakal . Govindan Nair . Edasseri . S.P.C.S . 2019-01-27.
  10. Web site: Puthan Kalavum Arivalum . 2019-01-27 . catalog.uoc.ac.in . en . 2019-01-27.
  11. Web site: Lagu Ganamgal . Govindan Nair . Edasseri . 1963 . S.P.C.S . 2019-01-27.
  12. Book: Edassery Govindan Nair . Karutha Chettichikal . Poorna Publications . 1955 . 978-8171804061.
  13. Web site: Kavile Pattu . Govindan Nair . Edasseri . 2003 . Poorna . 2019-01-27 . 27 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190127152939/https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=227353&query_desc=kw%252Cwrdl%253A%2520edasseri . dead .
  14. Web site: Threevikramanu Munpil . Govindan Nair . Edasseri . 1971 . S.P.C.S . 2019-01-27.
  15. Web site: Kunguma Prabhatham . Govindan Nair . Edasseri . 1975 . S. P. C. S . 2019-01-27.
  16. Web site: Anthitthiri: kavithakal . Govindan Nair . Edasseri . S.P.C.S . 2019-01-27.
  17. Web site: Edasseri kavithakal: sampoorna samaharam . Govindan Nair . Edasseri . 2007 . Mathrubhoomi Books . 2019-01-27.
  18. Web site: Koottu krishi . Govindan Nair . Edasseri . 1967 . Current Books . 2019-01-27.
  19. Web site: Edasseriyude naadakangal . Govindan Nair . Edasseri . 2001 . Current Books . 2019-01-27.
  20. Web site: Edasseriyude Prabandangal . Gopalakrishnan K . 1988 . Kozhikode mathrubhumi Printing & Pub. Comp . 2019-01-27.
  21. Web site: Edasseriyude kavya lokam . Sharachandran . K. P. . 1988 . S.P.C.S . 2019-01-27.
  22. Web site: Itha oru kavi . 1996 . Edasseri Publications, Kochi . 2019-01-27.
  23. Web site: Edasseri kavitha: silpa vicharam . Mohanan . K. P. . 2014 . Sahithya Pravarthaka Co-operative Society . 2019-01-27.
  24. Web site: Edasseri kavitha . Ramachandran Kavadiyar . 2004 . State Institute of Languages . 2019-01-27.
  25. Web site: Edasseri ninavil varumpol . 2006 . Edassery smaraka samithy . Mathrubhumi Books . 2019-01-27.
  26. Web site: Edasserikkavitha . 2019-01-27 . catalog.uoc.ac.in . en . 2019-01-27.
  27. Web site: Edasserikavithayile premeyaghatana . Achuthanunni . Chathanath . 2015 . Vallathol Vidhyapeedam . 2019-01-27.

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