Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, popularly known as Akkitham, was an Indian poet and essayist who wrote in Malayalam. His literary works began to gain wide attention in the early 1950s and Irupatham Noottandinte Ithihasam is one of the first truly modernist poems in Malaysalam literature. He is acknowledged to have introduced’meaningful modernism’ as a central theme in his poetry.
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Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, popularly known as Akkitham, was an Indian poet and essayist who wrote in Malayalam. He was the recipient of India’s highest literary honour, the Jnanpith Award in 2019, and other awards including Padma Shri, Ezhuthachan Award, Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award, and Aasan Prize. He died on 15 October 2020, aged 94, in Thrissur. His literary works began to gain wide attention in the early 1950s and Irupatham Noottandinte Ithihasam, a khandakavya is one of the first truly modernist poems in Malaysalam literature.
He is acknowledged to have introduced’meaningful modernism’ as a central theme in his poetry. Sree Mahabhagavatham, his translation of Srimad Bhagavatam, composed of 14,613 verses, covers over 2,400 pages.
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