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'''Kalloor Oommen Philipose Asan''' (1838–1880) was a priest, teacher, literary scholar, journalist, playwright and translator from [[Kerala]], India. He was born in [[Kallooppara]] near [[Tiruvalla]] and grew up in Olassa in the present-day [[Kottayam district]] of Kerala. He was the editor of ''Paschima Taraka'', one of the earliest Malayalam journals. The journal was a Malayalam publication from the publishers of the [[Cochin]]-based English newspaper ''[[Western Star (Kerala)|Western Star]]''.<ref name="PRD">{{cite web |title=History of Press in Kerala |url=http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/historyofpress.htm |publisher=Public Relations Department, Government of Kerala |access-date=12 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140807035905/http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/historyofpress.htm |archive-date=7 August 2014}}</ref> Philippose was fluent in English and Malayalam, and translated ''[[The Comedy of Errors]]'' into Malayalam under the title ''Almarattam'' (1866) which was the first translation of Shakespeare into Malayalam. It was also one of the earliest [[Malayalam drama|plays written in Malayalam]] and was the first play to be published as a book.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dodderi Aswathanarayanarao Shankar |title=Shakespeare in Indian Languages |date=1999 |publisher=Indian Institute of Advanced Study |isbn=978-8-185-95265-9 |page=127 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D5FlAAAAMAAJ |access-date=12 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Manju V. V. |editor1-last=P. K. Babu |title=Indianizing the Bard: A diachronic study of Shakespeare reception in India |journal=Singularities |date=2019 |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=106–111 |url=https://www.singularitiesjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Journal-vol-1-Issue-2-1.pdf |access-date=12 February 2023 |publisher=Postgraduate Department of English, Unity Women's College, [[Manjeri]]}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Philipose was born in 1838 in [[Kallooppara]] near [[Tiruvalla]] in the present-day [[Mallappally Taluk|Mallappally taluk]] of [[Pathanamthitta district]]. He was the son of Kalloor Oommen of Kallooppara and Pathil Annamma of [[Aymanam]]. Later the family moved to Olassa in the [[Kottayam district]]. Philipose lost his parents when he was young and was brought up by his mother's family. He started learning Sanskrit at a young age and after his schooling, he joined [[CMS College Kottayam]]. Philipose excelled in English, Greek, and Latin, as well as mathematics, chemistry, and astronomy.<ref name=Bio>{{Cite book |title=Almarattam |chapter=Author biography from the book}}</ref><br />
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On 1 November 1859, at the age of twenty, he joined the Anglican Church School in [[Cochin]] as a Malayalam teacher ([[Aasaan|Asan]]). In 1869, he became a member representing Cochin in the Travancore Church Council.<ref name=Bio/><br />
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On 27 February 1862, he married Unicharamma, the daughter of Olassa Aenadikkal Thomman Varkey. On 24 March 1865, he became the editor of ''Paschima Taraka'', a newspaper published from Cochin. He was one of the first newspaper editors in Malayalam.<ref name=Bio/> He wrote articles that criticized the Catholic Church and the Pope.<ref name=Bio/> In 1866, he published ''Almarattam'' which was the first [[Malayalam drama|Malayalam play]] to be published as a book. His other literary works include ''Amarakosa Pradipika'' and ''Shabdadipika''. Philipose also translated some texts but before they could be published, he died of liver disease on 20 July 1880. He was buried in St. Marks CSI Church in Olassa.<ref name=Bio/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://thaalilakkam.in/downbooks/245.pdf "ആൾമാറാട്ടം"] (Full Text)<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{Cite book |title=Kalloor Oommen Philippose: A Short Biography |date=1971 |author=[[M. K. Cheriyan|Kozhuvallor M. K. Cheriyan]] |publisher=Vidyarthi Mithram |location=[[Kottayam]] | language=ml}}<br />
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[[Category:Malayalam-language writers]]<br />
[[Category:Malayalam-language dramatists and playwrights]]<br />
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[[Category:Dramatists and playwrights from Kerala]]<br />
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