O. V. Vijayan

E.V. Ramakrishnan is bilingual critic, poet, and translator who writes in English and his first language, Malayalam. He is a former Professor Emeritus and Professor and Dean of Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. He has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his critical study of Malayalam novel, Malayala Novelinte Deshakaalangal (2023) by the National Academy of Letters, New Delhi. He is a recipient of Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, Odakkuzhal Award and fellowships from the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, K.K. Birla Foundation and the Shastri Indo-Canadian Foundation of the Government of Canada. He has delivered lectures in many International conferences held in the Universities in Georgia (U.S.A), Paris at Sorbonne, Vienna, Beijing, Macau, Amman, Kuala Lampur etc. His prominent critical works in English are: Making It New: Modernism in Malayalam, Marathi and Hindi Poetry (1995), Locating Indian Literature: Texts. Traditions, Translations (2011), Indigenous Imaginaries: Literature, Region, Modernity (2017) and Mikhail Bakhtin: A Critical Introduction (2023). Among the scholarly volumes he has edited/co-edited are Interdisciplinary Alter-Natives in Comparative Literature (2013), Bakhtinian Explorations of Indian Culture: Pluralism, Dogma and Dialogue through History (2018), Literary Criticism in India: Texts, Trends and Trajectories (2021) and A Cultural Poetics of Bhasha Literatures: In Theory and Practice (2024). He has published eleven books of critical studies in Malayalam which include Aksharavum Aadhunikatayum (1992, 2001, 2021), Anubhavangale Aarkkanu Peti? (2007, 2022) and Achati Muthal Aagolatha Vare (2022). He is the author of four volumes of poetry in English, the most recent being, Tips for Living in an Expanding Universe (2018). K.C. Muraleedharan is Associate Professor of English retired from Payyanur College, Kannur University, Kerala. He is an academic and translator whose articles and translations have appeared in various journals like Malayalam Literary Survey of Kerala Sahitya Akademi, Granthalokam, Countercurrents.org, and Modern Literature. He has translated from Malayalam into English the manuscript of Pattom A. Thanu Pillai’s biography published in 2012. He has edited/co-edited seven anthologies for undergraduates of various Indian universities, prescribed in and outside Kerala, a few of them published by Cambridge. He has served as the Chairperson of the Board of Studies and a member of the Academic Council of Kannur University. He has been associated with the SCERT, Kerala as an expert resource for textbook production since 2009.