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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Narayana Panickar was born on 25 January 1889 at [[Ambalappuzha]], in [[Alappuzha district]] of the south Indian state of [[Kerala]] to Ayyappan Pilla and Valezhathu Kunji Amma.<ref name="Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal">{{Cite web |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/Profiles/RNarayanaPanikkar/Html/RNPanikkargraphy.htm |title=Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal |date=2019-04-09 |website=Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal |access-date=2019-04-09}}</ref>  After schooling at Ambalappuzha and Alappuzha, he completed his intermediate course from [[Maharaja's College, Ernakulam]] and continued his undergraduate studies at [[Thiruvananthapuram]] which he could not complete it. subsequently, he returned to Alappuzha where he worked as a teacher, simultaneously studying privately to earn a bachelor's degree. Thereafter, he worked at various schools in Kerala including St. Mary's High School, Champakkara, St. Aloysiuos High School, [[Edathua]], [[Kottappuram, Paravur|Kottappuram]] High School, Government Sanskrit School, Thiruvanathapuram, and S. M. V. High School, [[Vanchiyoor]] before superannuating from service from S. R. V. High School, [[Nagarcoil]] in 1944.<ref name="Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal" />
Narayana Panickar was born on 25 January 1889 at [[Ambalappuzha]], in [[Alappuzha district]] of the south Indian state of [[Kerala]] to Ayyappan Pilla and Valezhathu Kunji Amma.<ref name="Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal">{{Cite web |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/Profiles/RNarayanaPanikkar/Html/RNPanikkargraphy.htm |title=Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal |date=2019-04-09 |website=Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal |access-date=2019-04-09}}</ref>  After schooling at Ambalappuzha and Alappuzha, he completed his intermediate course from [[Maharaja's College, Ernakulam]] and continued his undergraduate studies at [[Thiruvananthapuram]] which he could not complete it. subsequently, he returned to Alappuzha where he worked as a teacher, simultaneously studying privately to earn a bachelor's degree. Thereafter, he worked at various schools in Kerala including St. Mary's High School, Champakkara, St. Aloysiuos High School, [[Edathua]], [[Kottappuram, Paravur|Kottappuram]] High School, Government Sanskrit School, Thiruvananthapuram, and S. M. V. High School, [[Vanchiyoor]] before superannuating from service from S. R. V. High School, [[Nagarcoil]] in 1944.<ref name="Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal" />


Panickar was known to have published over 100 books, composed of novels, poems, histories, biographies, translations and lexicons.<ref name="Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal" /><ref name="List of works">{{Cite web |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/Profiles/RNarayanaPanikkar/Html/RNPanikkarBooks.htm |title=List of works |date=2019-04-09 |website=Kerala Sahitya Akademi |access-date=2019-04-09}}</ref> However, he is best remembered for the six-volume work, ''Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charthram'', a comprehensive history of [[Malayalam literature]] up to 1954<ref name="NairDevi2010">{{cite book|author1=R. Raman Nair|author2=L. Sulochana Devi|title=Chattampi Swami: An Intellectual Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-JRfipEdV0C&pg=PA52|year=2010|publisher=South Indian Studies|isbn=978-81-905928-2-6|pages=52–}}</ref><ref name="Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charithram part-5">{{Cite web |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.277869 |title=Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charithram part-5 |last=Narayana Panikkar R. |date=2019 |access-date=2019-04-09}}</ref> and ''Navayuga Bhasha Nighantu'', a [[lexicon]].<ref name="Panicker1964">{{cite book|author=R. Narayana Panicker|title=Navayuga bhasa nigandu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tLEfHAAACAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Reddiar Press & Book Depot}}</ref> ''Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charthram'' fetched him the [[Sahitya Akademi Award to Malayalam Writers|Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam]] in 1955.<ref name="KENDRA SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARDS (MALAYALAM)">{{Cite web |url=http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/awards.htm |title=KENDRA SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARDS (MALAYALAM) |date=2007-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524212356/http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/awards.htm |access-date=2019-04-09|archive-date=24 May 2007 }}</ref><ref name="Datta1987">{{cite book|author=Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&pg=PA303|year=1987|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1803-1|pages=303–}}</ref> He also translated several classics of Tamil and Bengali literature including Purananuru, Akanaṉūṟu, Silappatikaram and ''Sita'' of [[Dwijendralal Ray]].<ref name="Das2005">{{cite book|author=Sisir Kumar Das|title=History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&pg=PA641|year=2005|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-798-9|pages=641–}}</ref>
Panickar was known to have published over 100 books, composed of novels, poems, histories, biographies, translations and lexicons.<ref name="Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal" /><ref name="List of works">{{Cite web |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/Profiles/RNarayanaPanikkar/Html/RNPanikkarBooks.htm |title=List of works |date=2019-04-09 |website=Kerala Sahitya Akademi |access-date=2019-04-09}}</ref> However, he is best remembered for the six-volume work, ''Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charthram'', a comprehensive history of [[Malayalam literature]] up to 1954<ref name="NairDevi2010">{{cite book|author1=R. Raman Nair|author2=L. Sulochana Devi|title=Chattampi Swami: An Intellectual Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-JRfipEdV0C&pg=PA52|year=2010|publisher=South Indian Studies|isbn=978-81-905928-2-6|pages=52–}}</ref><ref name="Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charithram part-5">{{Cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.277869 |title=Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charithram part-5 |last=Narayana Panikkar R. |date=2019 |access-date=2019-04-09}}</ref> and ''Navayuga Bhasha Nighantu'', a [[lexicon]].<ref name="Panicker1964">{{cite book|author=R. Narayana Panicker|title=Navayuga bhasa nigandu|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tLEfHAAACAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Reddiar Press & Book Depot}}</ref> ''Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charthram'' fetched him the [[Sahitya Akademi Award to Malayalam Writers|Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam]] in 1955.<ref name="KENDRA SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARDS (MALAYALAM)">{{Cite web |url=http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/awards.htm |title=KENDRA SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARDS (MALAYALAM) |date=2007-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524212356/http://www.prd.kerala.gov.in/awards.htm |access-date=2019-04-09|archive-date=24 May 2007 }}</ref><ref name="Datta1987">{{cite book|author=Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&pg=PA303|year=1987|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1803-1|pages=303–}}</ref> He also translated several classics of Tamil and Bengali literature including Purananuru, Akanaṉūṟu, Silappatikaram and ''Sita'' of [[Dwijendralal Ray]].<ref name="Das2005">{{cite book|author=Sisir Kumar Das|title=History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&pg=PA641|year=2005|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-798-9|pages=641–}}</ref>


Panickar married three times, first to Janaki Amma but after her death in 1913, he had a short marriage after which he married Thankamma, the daughter of [[K. C. Kesava Pillai]], a noted [[Carnatic musician]] and the poet laureate of [[Kingdom of Travancore|Travancore]].<ref name="Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal" /> He died ion 29 October 1959, at the age of 70. His life has been documented in a biography, ''R. Narayana Panicker'', by R. Balakrishnan Nair.<ref name="R. Narayana Panicker">{{Cite book |url=https://find.uoc.ac.in/Record/211215 |title=R. Narayana Panicker |last=Balakrishnan Nair |first=R. |date=1996 |language=ml}}</ref>
Panickar married three times, first to Janaki Amma but after her death in 1913, he had a short marriage after which he married Thankamma, the daughter of [[K. C. Kesava Pillai]], a noted [[Carnatic musician]] and the poet laureate of [[Kingdom of Travancore|Travancore]].<ref name="Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal" /> He died ion 29 October 1959, at the age of 70. His life has been documented in a biography, ''R. Narayana Panicker'', by R. Balakrishnan Nair.<ref name="R. Narayana Panicker">{{Cite book |url=https://find.uoc.ac.in/Record/211215 |title=R. Narayana Panicker |last=Balakrishnan Nair |first=R. |date=1996 |language=ml}}</ref>
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=== Non-fiction ===
=== Non-fiction ===
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* {{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.277869 |title=Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charithram (6 volumes) |last=Narayana Panikkar R. |date=1954 |publisher=Kerala Sahitya Akademi}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.277869 |title=Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charithram (6 volumes) |last=Narayana Panikkar R. |date=1954 |publisher=Kerala Sahitya Akademi}}
* {{Cite book |title=Navayuga Bhasha Nigandu |last=Panicker |first=R. Narayana |date=1964 |publisher=Reddiar Press & Book Depot |location=Trivandrum |language=ml |oclc=14055820}}
* {{Cite book |title=Navayuga Bhasha Nigandu |last=Panicker |first=R. Narayana |date=1964 |publisher=Reddiar Press & Book Depot |location=Trivandrum |language=ml |oclc=14055820}}
* {{Cite book |url=http://103.251.43.202:8080/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=297518 |title=Mukhya pareekshapadasahyavum Haindava Natyasastravum |last=Narayana Panicker R. |publisher=Anantha Rama Varma Press |year=1922 |location=Thiruvananthapuram}}
* {{Cite book |url=http://103.251.43.202:8080/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=297518 |title=Mukhya pareekshapadasahyavum Haindava Natyasastravum |last=Narayana Panicker R. |publisher=Anantha Rama Varma Press |year=1922 |location=Thiruvananthapuram}}
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=== Translations ===
=== Translations ===
* {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&q=R.+Narayana+Panikkar&pg=PA641 |title=Sitanirvasam |last1=Dvijendralal Roy (author) |last2=R. Narayana Panikkar (translator) |year=2005 |isbn=9788172017989 |quote=translation of Roy's Sita from Bengali}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&q=R.+Narayana+Panikkar&pg=PA641 |title=Sitanirvasam |author=Dvijendralal Roy |translator=R. Narayana Panikkar |year=2005 |isbn=9788172017989 |quote=translation of Roy's Sita from Bengali}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=215660&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520R.%2520Narayana%2520Panickar |title=Chilappathikaram |last=Narayana panickar. R |date=1966 |publisher=Mathrubhumi |location=Mathrubhumi}}
* {{Cite book |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=215660&query_desc=au%252Cwrdl%253A%2520R.%2520Narayana%2520Panickar |title=Chilappathikaram |last=Narayana panickar. R |date=1966 |publisher=Mathrubhumi |location=Mathrubhumi}}
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R. Narayana Panickar
Born(1889-01-25)25 January 1889
Ambalappuzha, Alappuzha district, Kerala, British India
Died29 October 1959(1959-10-29) (aged 70)
Occupation
  • Essayist
  • playwright
  • translator
  • lexicographer
  • novelist
  • historian
Notable work
Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charthram
Navayuga Bhasha Nighantu
Spouse(s)Janaki Amma, Thankamma
Parent(s)
  • Ayyappan Pilla
  • Kunji Amma
AwardsSahitya Akademi Award

R. Narayana Panickar (25 January 1889 – 29 October 1959) was an Indian essayist, playwright, translator, lexicographer, novelist and historian of Malayalam. He was credited with over 100 books but the best known among them are the six-volume work, Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charthram, a comprehensive history of Malayalam literature up to 1954 and Navayuga Bhasha Nighantu, a lexicon. He also wrote a number of novels and translated several classics of Tamil literature including Purananuru, Akanaṉūṟu and Silappatikaram. Sahitya Akademi honoured him with their annual award in 1955.

Biography

Narayana Panickar was born on 25 January 1889 at Ambalappuzha, in Alappuzha district of the south Indian state of Kerala to Ayyappan Pilla and Valezhathu Kunji Amma.[1] After schooling at Ambalappuzha and Alappuzha, he completed his intermediate course from Maharaja's College, Ernakulam and continued his undergraduate studies at Thiruvananthapuram which he could not complete it. subsequently, he returned to Alappuzha where he worked as a teacher, simultaneously studying privately to earn a bachelor's degree. Thereafter, he worked at various schools in Kerala including St. Mary's High School, Champakkara, St. Aloysiuos High School, Edathua, Kottappuram High School, Government Sanskrit School, Thiruvananthapuram, and S. M. V. High School, Vanchiyoor before superannuating from service from S. R. V. High School, Nagarcoil in 1944.[1]

Panickar was known to have published over 100 books, composed of novels, poems, histories, biographies, translations and lexicons.[1][2] However, he is best remembered for the six-volume work, Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charthram, a comprehensive history of Malayalam literature up to 1954[3][4] and Navayuga Bhasha Nighantu, a lexicon.[5] Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charthram fetched him the Sahitya Akademi Award for Malayalam in 1955.[6][7] He also translated several classics of Tamil and Bengali literature including Purananuru, Akanaṉūṟu, Silappatikaram and Sita of Dwijendralal Ray.[8]

Panickar married three times, first to Janaki Amma but after her death in 1913, he had a short marriage after which he married Thankamma, the daughter of K. C. Kesava Pillai, a noted Carnatic musician and the poet laureate of Travancore.[1] He died ion 29 October 1959, at the age of 70. His life has been documented in a biography, R. Narayana Panicker, by R. Balakrishnan Nair.[9]

Bibliography

Non-fiction

  • Narayana Panikkar R. (1954). Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charithram (6 volumes). Kerala Sahitya Akademi.
  • Panicker, R. Narayana (1964). Navayuga Bhasha Nigandu (in മലയാളം). Trivandrum: Reddiar Press & Book Depot. OCLC 14055820.
  • Narayana Panicker R. (1922). Mukhya pareekshapadasahyavum Haindava Natyasastravum. Thiruvananthapuram: Anantha Rama Varma Press.
  • Narayana Panikkar R. Thiruvithamcore Charithram. Thiruvithamcore.

Novels

  • Narayana Panickar. R. Premolkarsham. B.V. Book Depot.
  • Narayana Panickar. R. Lalitha. Thiruvananthapuram: Subbiah Reddiar.

Translations

Poetry

  • Narayana Panickar. R (1958). Pathittupathu. Kollam: S.T. Reddiar and Sons.

Writings on Panikkar

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal". Biography on Kerala Sahitya Akademi portal. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  2. ↑ "List of works". Kerala Sahitya Akademi. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  3. ↑ R. Raman Nair; L. Sulochana Devi (2010). Chattampi Swami: An Intellectual Biography. South Indian Studies. pp. 52–. ISBN 978-81-905928-2-6.
  4. ↑ Narayana Panikkar R. (2019). "Kerala Bhasha Sahithya Charithram part-5". Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  5. ↑ R. Narayana Panicker (1964). Navayuga bhasa nigandu. Reddiar Press & Book Depot.
  6. ↑ "KENDRA SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARDS (MALAYALAM)". 24 May 2007. Archived from the original on 24 May 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  7. ↑ Amaresh Datta (1987). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo. Sahitya Akademi. pp. 303–. ISBN 978-81-260-1803-1.
  8. ↑ Sisir Kumar Das (2005). History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy. Sahitya Akademi. pp. 641–. ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9.
  9. ↑ Balakrishnan Nair, R. (1996). R. Narayana Panicker (in മലയാളം).

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