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Place of Birth: Palakkad, Kerala, India
About O. V. Vijayan
- Ottupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan (2 July 1930 – 30 March 2005), commonly known as O.
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- Vijayan, was an Indian author and cartoonist, who was an important figure in modern Malayalam language literature.
- Best known for his first novel Khasakkinte Itihasam (1969), Vijayan was the author of six novels, nine short-story collections, and nine collections of essays, memoirs and reflections. Born in Palakkad in 1930, Vijayan graduated from Victoria College in Palakkad and obtained a master's degree in English literature from Presidency College, Madras.
- He wrote his first short story, "Tell Father Gonsalves", in 1953.
- Khasakkinte Itihasam (The Legends of Khasak), Vijayan's first novel, appeared in 1969.
- It set off a great literary revolution and cleaved the history of Malayalam fiction into pre-Khasak and post-Khasak.
- While Khasakkinte Itihasam continues to be his best-known work as an angry young man, his later works, Gurusagaram (The Infinity of Grace), Pravachakante Vazhi (The Path of the Prophet) and Thalamurakal (Generations) bespeak a mature transcendentalist. Vijayan authored many volumes of short stories, which range from the comic to the philosophical and show a diversity of situations, tones and styles.
- Vijayan translated most of his own works from Malayalam to English.
- He was also an editorial cartoonist and political observer and worked for news publications including The Statesman and The Hindu.
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