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K. V. Tirumalesh

K. V. Tirumalesh (1940 – 30 January 2023) was an Indian poet, writer and critic in the Kannada and English languages, and a retired professor.[1] For his collections of poems Akshaya Kavya in Kannada (2010), he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award.[2]

K. V. Tirumalesh
Tirumalesh in 2018
Tirumalesh in 2018
Born1940 (1940)
Karadka, Kasargod, Madras Presidency, British India
Died (aged 82)
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
OccupationWriter, professor
LanguageKannada, English
NationalityIndian

Early life

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Tirumalesh was born in 1940 in the village of Karadka in the Madras Presidency of British India (present-day Kasargod district, of the Indian State of Kerala).[3] He held a master's degree in English literature and a doctorate degree in linguistics. He taught at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.[4]

Career

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Tirumalesh's career as a writer began in the 1960s when he wrote the collection of poems MukhavaaDagalu (Masks, 1968) in the Navya style, the modernist school of writing in Kannada literature. His Mahaprasthana (1990) was said to be the result of his exploration of ways of transcending the constraints of modernism.[5] It dealt with the theme of disillusionment after victory, with the mythological heavenward journey of the Pandavas as the setting.[1]

Tirumalesh's collection of poems, Akshaya Kavya (2010), as described by him is an "epic fragment".[6] He elaborated: "Aksh aya Kavya imbibes this spirit in an extensive way . It is a long narrative sans story, sans didacticism, sans any aim, a sort of poetic sojourn with a lot of gaps. It is long and fragmentary at the same time: my models are Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Charles Olson."[7] The work won him the Sahitya Akademi Award for Kannada in 2015.[8]

Death

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Tirumalesh died in Hyderabad on 30 January 2023, at the age of 82.[9]

Bibliography

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Poetry collections

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  • Mukhavaadagalu/ಮುಖವಾಡಗಳು (Masks, 1968)
  • Vathara/ವಠಾರ (Apartments, 1969)
  • Mahaprasthana/ಮಹಾಪ್ರಸ್ಥಾನ (The Great March, 1971)
  • Mukhamukhi/ಮುಖಾಮುಖಿ (Face to Face, 1978)
  • "Avadha/ಅವಧ" (1988)
  • "Paapiyoo... /ಪಾಪಿಯೂ" (1993)
  • Akshaya Kavya/ಅಕ್ಷಯ ಕಾವ್ಯ (2010)
  • "Aayda Kavitegalu/ಆಯ್ದ ಕವಿತೆಗಳು" (2011)
  • "Arabbi/ಅರಬ್ಬಿ" (2015)[10]

Novels/short stories

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  • "Tarangantaranga/ತರಂಗಾಂತರಂಗ"
  • "Dawn Quixote/ಡಾನ್ ಕ್ವಿಕ್ಸೇೂಟ್"

Essays/criticism

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  • "Sammukha/ಸಮ್ಮುಖ"
  • "Vyakti Mattu Paramparegalu/ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ ಮತ್ತು ಪರಂಪರೆಗಳು"
  • "Ullekha/ಉಲ್ಲೇಖ"
  • "Ala-Nirala/ಆಳ-ನಿರಾಳ" (1-4)
  • "Kavya Karana/ಕಾವ್ಯ ಕಾರಣ"
  • "Namma Kannada/ನಮ್ಮ ಕನ್ನಡ"
  • "Vagartha/ವಾಗರ್ಥ"
  • "Vaachanashale/ವಾಚನಶಾಲೆ

Non-fiction

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  • Derrida's Heel of Achilles and Other Essays[11]
  • Grammar and Communication: Essays on the Form and Function of Language (1999)[12]
  • The Landscape of Language: Issues in Kannada Linguistics (2000)[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b Lal, Mohan (1992). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot (Volume 5). Sahitya Akademi. p. 4358. ISBN 8126012218. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Tirumalesh, Mistry among Akademi award winners". Deccan Herald. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  3. ^ "A reader's guide to the 24 books that have won the Sahitya Akademi awards". scroll.in. 21 February 2016. Archived from the original on 24 February 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  4. ^ "K. V. Tirumalesh profile". The International Writing Program. iwp.uiowa.edu. Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  5. ^ Ramachandrn, C. N. (22 February 2016). "Labyrinth of recursive images". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  6. ^ Khajane, Muralidhara (18 December 2015). "Tirumalesh chosen for Sahitya Akademi award". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  7. ^ Shrikant, Rashmi (27 December 2015). "Intolerance has been part of our history: Tirumalesh". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  8. ^ "Sahitya Akademi Awards 2015" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  9. ^ "Noted writer K.V. Tirumalesh no more". The Hindu. 30 January 2023. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  10. ^ Arabbi : kavana saṅkalana ಅರಬ್ಬಿ : ಕವನ ಸಂಕಲನ [Arabbi : anthology of poems]. Bengaluru: Abhinava. 2015. OCLC 1044770590.
  11. ^ Tirumalesh, K. V. (1990). Derrida's heel of Achilles and other essays. [New Delhi]: Bahri Publications. ISBN 81-7034-055-1. OCLC 25009177.
  12. ^ Tirumalesh, K. V. (1999). Grammar and communication : essays on the form and function of language. New Delhi: Allied Publishers. ISBN 81-7023-946-X. OCLC 42762069.
  13. ^ Tirumalesh, K. V. (2000). The landscape of language : issues in Kannada linguistics. New Delhi: Allied Publishers. ISBN 81-7764-006-2. OCLC 45025713.
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