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.
