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'''Vijila Chirappad''' is an Indian Dalit poet who writes in Malayalam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hayfestival.com/artist.aspx?artistid=4858|title=Vijila Chirappad - Hay Festival Artist Profile|website=Hay Festival|access-date=27 April 2019}}</ref><br />
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==Life and work==<br />
Born in [[Kozhikode]], [[Kerala]], Chirappad's poems speak of the experience of living life as a Dalit woman.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/all-its-communist-history-casteism-inherent-kerala-society-dalit-poet-vijila-chirappad-41828|title=For all its communist history, casteism inherent in Kerala society: Dalit poet Vijila Chirappad|last=Anil|first=Chintha Mary|date=18 April 2016|website=The NewsMinute|access-date=27 April 2019}}</ref> Her poetry explores how the double burden of gender and caste shapes the lives and struggles of Dalit women in Kerala in distinct ways than women of dominant castes.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ibrahim U|first=Shiji|date=September 2017|title=The Burning Embers: Poems of the Dalit Writer Vijila Chirappad as Works of Caste and Gender Discriminations|url=https://www.academia.edu/35506880|journal=International Journal of English Language|language=en|volume=V (IX)|pages=596–605|via=Academia.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://feminisminindia.com/2018/01/11/5-dalit-women-poets/|title=5 Dalit Women Poets Who Remind Us That Caste And Patriarchy Are Not Exclusive|last=Gumpenapalli|first=Sanjeev|date=11 January 2018|website=Feminism India|access-date=27 April 2019}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://feminisminindia.com/2017/04/18/six-books-dalit-women-writers/|title=6 Books By Dalit Women Writers Exploring Lives Lived On The Margins Of Caste And Gender|last=Mahurkar|first=Vaishnavi|date=18 April 2017|website=Feminism India|access-date=27 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Priya N.|first=Lakshmi|date=August 2018|title=Poetry is Protest: The Contemporary Dalit Female Experience in Kerala|url=http://srsshodhsansthan.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1..AACH-Aug-18.....pdf|journal=Annals of Art, Culture & Humanities|volume=III (II)|pages=1–8|via=S.R.S.D. Memorial Shiksha Shodh Sanstha}}</ref> Her work also discusses how, despite its communist history, casteism pervades everyday life in Kerala.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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Chirappad's work includes three collections of poetry in Malayalam: ''Adukala Illathaa Veedu'' (''A Home without a Kitchen'', 2006), ''Amma Oru Kalpanika Kavitha Alla'' (''Mother is not a Poetic Figment of our Imagination'', 2009),<ref>{{Cite book|title=Amma oru Kalpanika Kavithayalla.|last=Chirappad|first=Vijila|publisher=Maithri Books|year=2009|location=Thiuvananthapuram}}</ref> and ''[https://www.chinthapublishers.com/en/books/pakarthiyezhuthu-621 Pakarthi Ezhuthu]'' (''Copied Notes'', 2015). <ref>{{Cite book|title=Pakarthiyezhuththu|last=Chirappad|first=Vijila|publisher=Chintha Publishers|year=2014|isbn=9789385018121}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Her poems "A Place for Me", "Can't Grow My Nails" and "The Autobiography of a Bitch" have also been included in the 2012 Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing|editor1=M. Dasan|editor2=V. Pratibha|editor3=C. S. Chandrika|editor3-link=C. S. Chandrika|editor4=Pradeepan Pampirikunnu|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2012|isbn=9780198079408|location=New Delhi|pages=37–39}}</ref><br />
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Chirappad has participated in the [[Kerala Literature Festival|Kerala Literature festival]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://english.dcbooks.com/first-saturday-klf.html|title=FIRST SATURDAY @ KLF|date=3 February 2017|website=DC Books}}</ref> and also in the prestigious [[Hay Festival|Hay Festival of Literature and Arts]] as part of an event on Dalit Poetry in Malayalam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hayfestival.com/p-4136-mb-manoj-vijila-chirappad-mr-renukumar-sunny-kapikkad-s-joseph.aspx|title=M.B.Manoj, Vijila Chirappad, M.R. Renukumar, Sunny Kapikkad, S.Joseph. We Sing of Earth: Dalit Poetry in Malayalam|date=17 November 2011|website=Hay Festival|access-date=27 April 2019}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Dalit writers]]<br />
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