P. K. Chandran Explained

P. K. Chanran
Birth Date:	10 May 1952
Birth Place:	Manipuram, Calicut, India
Children:	2

P. K. Chandran (born 10 May 1952) is an Indian translator and creative writer in Malayalam and Hindi. His Karnan, a translation of Shivaji Sawant's Marathi novel Mrityunjay, won the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 2001.^[1]

Books

• Insulted and Humiliated Characters in Puranas (Sarthak Prakasan, New Delhi)
• Kunthiparvam (Chithra Publishers, Tvm)
• Droupati (DC Books, Kottayam)
• Gandhari (DC Books, Kottayam)
• Sita (DC Books, Kottayam)
• Kunthi (DC Books, Kottayam)
• Drona(DC Books, Kottayam)
• Sathivathy (DC Books, Kottayam)
• Bheeshma (DC Books, Kottayam)
• Yayathi (DC Books, Kottayam)
• Ravanan (DC Books, Kottayam)

Translations

• Karnan (Mrityunjaya of Sivaji Sawant - DC Books Marathi)
• Yantra (Malayattoor Ramakrishnan - National Books Trust -Malayalam)
• Samakaleena Cherukathakal (National Books Trust - Malayalam)
• Yugandharan (Yugandhar of Sivaji Sawant- Kendra Sahitya Academy, New Delhi - Marathi)
• Mohammed Rafi - sangeethavum jeevithavum (Hindi)
• Njan Hinduvanu (Asghar Wajahat - Hindi)
• Saadat Hasan Mantoyude Kathakal (Saadat Hasan Manto - Urdu)
• Avarnan (Sharan Kumar Limbale -Marathi)

Awards

• Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for Karnan^[2]

External links

• AKADEMI TRANSLATION PRIZES (1989-2015)

Notes and References

1. Web site: ..:: SAHITYA : Akademi Awards :: . 7 August 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170623180903/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/anuvad_samman_suchi.jsp . 23 June 2017 . dead .
2. Web site: Kendra Sahitya Akademy Award for the novel "Karnan". 7 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170623180903/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/awards/anuvad_samman_suchi.jsp#MALAYALAM. 23 June 2017. dead.