Malayattoor Ramakrishnan
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| Born |
K. V. Ramakrishna Iyer 27 May 1927 Kalpathi, Malabar District, Madras Presidency, British India |
| Died | 27 December 1997 (aged 70) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India |
| Occupation | IAS officer, author, cartoonist |
| Spouse(s) | Krishnaveni (1935–1999) |
Malayattoor Ramakrishnan (27 May 1927 – 27 December 1997) was a prominent Malayalam writer and cartoonist from Kerala, India. He authored novels, short stories and biographical sketches. Yanthram, Verukal, Yakshi and Service Story are some of his most famous works. Malayattoor Ramakrishnan was also a practicing lawyer, a Judicial Magistrate and an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, and has held various prominent posts. He was also the uncle of the famous actor Jayaram.
Malayattoor Ramakrishnan was born on 27 May 1927 as K. V. Ramakrishna Iyer in Kalpathi near Palghat in the Malabar district of Madras Presidency, British India. He was one of six siblings. The family settled down in a small village (Thottuva – Cheranalloor East) near the banks of the Periyar River. He studied in Perumbavoor and in Aluva and completed his bachelor's degree and a law degree in Thiruvananthapuram.
Even during his student days, he had started writing and cartooning. He became a communist sympathiser and even contested Kerala assembly elections in Perumbavoor only to lose. In 1954, he married Krishnaveni (1935–1999). They had two children.
After earning the BL degree he started his career as an Advocate. Malayattoor was also instrumental in the setting up of Chithrakala Parishad along with P.T.Bhaskara Panicker, E.M.J.Venniyoor and T.N.Jayachandran in 1952. He fought the 1954 election to Thiru-Kochi legislative assembly as an independent candidate with support from leftist political parties, but failed to win. Later he started his work as a sub-editor in The Free Press Journal in Mumbai. He was a contributing cartoonist to Shankar's Weekly. He is also credited with the first Malayalam translation of Bram Stoker's Dracula apart from translating Sherlock Holmes novels into Malayalam.
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