Kilimanoor Ramakantan (2 August 1938 – 30 November 2009) was a renowned

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poet, writer, translator and lyricist from

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. Dante's ''

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'' was translated into Malayalam by Ramakanthan. This is the first translation of ''Divine Comedy'' in India.

Biography

Ramakanthan was born in 1938 in

Kilimanoor Kilimanoor is a panchayat and a town in the Chirayinkeezhu taluk of Trivandrum district in Kerala, India. It is located on MC/SH 1 Road, North-west of the city of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), 14 km east of Attingal and east of Var ...

. Educated at Kilimanoor Rajaraja Varma High School, Thiruvananthapuram Arts College and University College. He worked as a teacher in Sreenarayana College, Kollam for a long time.

Awards

*2005 Asan Memorial award for Poetry *Sahithya Academy Award for Best Translation *Mooloor Award Kavitharangam Award *Kavishresta Puraskaram by the Sree Narayana Academi *Velutheri Kesavan Award

Bibliography

Poems and anthology

Books on Kilimanoor Remakanthan

#Orma kallukal by K.Indira Biography #Kilimanoor Remakanthan prakrithiye guruvakkiya kavi written by Malayalapuzha Sudhan { Criticism ] #Prakrithiyude snehagayakan by Nirmala Rajagopal iography #Kilimanoor Remakanthan iography 2 #JOTHIR GAMAYA essays edited by DR.D.BENJAMIN

Translations

Kilimanoor's Malayalam translation of

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''Divine Comedy'', published by Kendra Sahithya Academy, was the first translation of the Italian epic into any Indian language. He also translated Nikos Kazantzakis's ''The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel'' into Malayalam, where it was published in three parts by Kendra Sahithya Academy under the title ''Odyssey Aadhunika Anubandham''.

References

External links

The Hindu dated 08/10/2005
* Indian male poets 1938 births Malayalam poets 20th-century Indian poets Malayalam-language lyricists Indian lyricists Poets from Kerala 20th-century Indian male writers Recipients of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award {{India-poet-stub