Ayyappa Paniker

K. Ayyappa Paniker
Ayyappa Panicker
Born(1930-09-12)12 September 1930
Died23 August 2006(2006-08-23) (aged 75)
Other namesAyyappa Panicker
കേശവപണിക്കർ അയ്യപ്പ പണിക്കർ
Alma mater
Occupations
Known forMalayalam poetry
Notable work
  • Kurukshethram
  • Ayyappapanikkarude Krithikal
  • Chintha
Ayyappa Paniker
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisPoetry of Robert Lowell
Doctoral advisorRobert E. Gross.
Academic work
Doctoral students

K. Ayyappa Paniker, sometimes spelt Ayyappa Panicker (12 September 1930 – 23 August 2006), was a Malayalam poet, literary critic, and an academic and a scholar in modern and post-modern literary theories as well as ancient Indian aesthetics and literary traditions. He was one of the pioneers of modernism in Malayalam poetry, where his seminal works like Kurukshethram (1960), is considered a turning point in Malayalam poetry.[1] Many of Ayyappa Paniker's poems and his several essays were an important influence on later generations of Malayalam writers.[2][3] His poems often reflected his deep concern for the environment with works such as Kadevide Makkale -Malayalam കാടെവിടെ മക്കളെ ( Where are the forests?)[4][5]

In an academic career which ran in consonance with his literary one, and spanned four decades, he taught in various colleges and universities before retiring as the Director, Institute of English, University of Kerala. He published over 25 works, translated several important work to Malayalam, including Guru Granth Sahib and a book in French; as a scholarly editor he produced numerous anthologies on Indian literature, he was the chief editor of the Sahitya Akademi's Indian Literary Encyclopaedia.[3] Another important work by him Indian Narratology, published by IGNCA, was the first of its kind to study various forms of the art of narration, in Indian literature, starting with Vedic and oral literature to Buddhist and contemporary literature.[6]

  1. ^ "Poet Ayyappa Paniker dead". The Times of India. 23 August 2006. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011.
  2. ^ "A lonely traveller's journey ends: Ayyappa Panicker had few peers in scholarship". The Hindu. 24 August 2006. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007.
  3. ^ a b "Poetry powered by realism: Ayyappa Paniker is rightfully called the architect of modern Malayalam poetry". The Tribune. 5 March 2006.
  4. ^ "കാടെവിടെ മക്കളേ, നാടെവിടെ മക്കളേ അയ്യപ്പപ്പണിക്കരുടെ കവിതയെവിടെ?".
  5. ^ https://dspace.uohyd.ac.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/50074840-a2eb-44df-8a73-729b0039a188/content. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ STUDYING THE NARRATIVE LITERATURE OF INDIA Archived 10 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine IGNCA, Newsletters, 2003 Vol. III (May – June).