MALAYATTOOR FOUNDATION
Constituted to commemorate Malayattoor Ramakrishnan
Constituted to commemorate Malayattoor Ramakrishnan
A forum for youngsters to present their talents!
For the best literary work in Malayalam!
Literary Seminars, Meetings and Debates for students!
To promote audio - visual creations based on malayattoor and his work.
To provide a forum for Malayalam writers, including budding young writers, promoting and fostering their artistic, literary and cultural talents.
To institute ‘Malayattoor Smruthi’ award for Drama, Dance, Cinema, Short Film, Documentary film etc. based on the literary works of Malayattoor.
To conduct annual literary festivals for High School and College students to help them familiarise with the works of Malayattoor and to organise literary camps and competitions at district level and state level.
To launch Online initiatives such as You tube channels to propagate the literary contributions of Malayattoor.
Malayattoor foundation is formed to commemorate the beloved writer Malayattoor Ramakrishnan, located at Sastrinagar in Thiruvananthapuram city, where the late litterateur spent most of his time. It aims to promote the advancement of Malayalam language and its literature, a cause dear to him.
A brief Biography.
Malayattoor Ramakrishan was a renowned Indian writer of Malayalam literature. He is also well known for his cartoons and paintings. K.V. Ramakrishna Iyer, popurarly known as Malayattoor Ramakrishnan was born on 30 May 1927 at Kalpathi in Palakkad district of Kerala to K.R.Viswanatha Iyer and Janaki Ammal, as one of their six children. Later the family settled down at Thottuva in Ernakulam district. He studied in various schools in Kerala as per the change of work places of his father. He started his college life at Union Christian College, Aluva near the banks of River Periyar. After he graduated from the University College, Thiruvananthapuram he got a chance to work as a tutor in the Union Christian College, Aluva. After acquiring the B.L.Degree he started his career as an Advocate. Then he joined as an Assistant Editor in the Free Press Journal, Mumbai for a short while and returned to Kerala for resuming practice as Advocate. In 1954 he contested from Perumbavoor constituency for the Kerala Legislative Assembly, but lost. Then he went to Mumbai again and worked as Sub Editor of Free Press Journal for a short period. He started writing articles for their evening bulletin. While working there, he was also a contributing cartoonist to Shankar’s Weekly. His literary career had already started in 1948 with a detective novel ‘Raathri’. He also translated detective fictions of Sir Arthur Conal Doyle (Sherlock Homes novels) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula into Malayalam.
Our governing body members.
Some of the literary contributions of Malayattoor Ramakrishnan.
A classic Malayalam novel written by Malayattoor Ramakrishnan in 1967.
An amazing short story from Malayattoor Ramakrishnan.
An amazing short story from Malayattoor in 1986
Malayattoor Ramakrishnan wrote the award winning novel, Verukal (Roots) in 1965.
He wrote Service Story – Ente IAS Dinangal, which documents his memoirs of his career.
Another classic novel from Malayattoor released in 1980.
Malayattoor directed a movie ‘Odukkam Thudakkam’ based on his own novel ‘Thudakkam Odukkam’ in the year 1984 . He wrote screenplay & lyrics also for the same.
He wrote screen play and dialogues for so many movies based on his novels / stories like Iyer the great, Yakshi, Chembarathi, Ponni, Sarapancharam, etc...
Aaromale amale aaraadhike azhake for ‘Odukkam Thudakkam’, music composed by G. Devarajan and sung by K.J.Jesudas & Naavaamukundante for the movie ‘Kalkki’, music composed by G. Devarajan and sung by P.Jayachandran.