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Kakkanadan was born on 23 April, 1935 in Thiruvalla, Travancore (now in Kerala, India), is an Indian Malayalam-language writer (1935–2011). Discover Kakkanadan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 76 years old?

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Occupation Writer
Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 23 April, 1935
Birthday 23 April
Birthplace Thiruvalla, Travancore (now in Kerala, India)
Date of death 19 October, 2011
Died Place Kollam, Kerala, India
Nationality India

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1935

George Varghese Kakkanadan (23 April 1935 – 19 October 2011 ), commonly known as Kakkanadan, was an Indian short-story writer and novelist in the Malayalam language.

1950

His works broke away from the neo-realism that dominated Malayalam literature through the 1950s and 1960s.

He is often credited with laying the foundation of modernism in Malayalam literature.

He is a recipient of Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award and Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards in addition to numerous other awards and recognitions.

Born in Thiruvalla as the second son of evangelist George Kakkanadan and Rosamma, George Varghese Kakkanadan spent most of his childhood at Kollam and Kottarakkara.

Though Kakkanadan's father was closely associated with the church, he was a political -left sympathiser.

Their house in Kottarakkara was a refuge for prominent communist leaders of the past, who were forced to go hiding.

After completing a degree in chemistry at SN College, Kollam, Kakkanadan started his career as a school teacher in Kerala.

1957

He quit the job to join the Southern Railway in Tamil Nadu in 1957.

1960

In early 1960s, he shot into prominence as one of the most promising writers in Malayalam and was among the pioneers of the modernist trend in Malayalam literature.

Kakkanadan's early works broke new ground in Malayalam fiction on account of their earnest exploration of deeper realities of life by employing a new diction and narrative methods.

Though vast majority of readers initially found it hard to accept the modern trends ushered in by Kakkanadan and some of his contemporaries, their works soon created a new sensibility marking a radical break from the past.

He was one of the harbingers of modernism in the genres of Malayalam novel and short story.

Though labelled by his readers as a formidable ultramodern Malayalam writer, Kakkanadan himself was of the view that modernism in literature has no convincing rationale.

Several of his works are considered landmarks in the history of literary modernism in Malayalam.

Moving with ease from apocalyptic visions to tantric imagery, he made his works representative of an important strand in the larger modernist trends in arts, literature and culture in India.

Kakkanadan was a rebel, both in life and literature.

His rebellion extended from his selection of themes and use of subversive language to his careful crafting of the philosophy of angst into the writing.

He often traversed the sweat zones of life and spoke of the valleys of the unknowing.

With a stunningly violent style, he shook the very roots of the progressive literary sensibilities of the 1960s and 1970s and its innocent certainties.

His was a world of dark tones and darker people, many of them social rejects.

He often spoke of the seamy side, the world of puss and blood.

Each of his works was an act of rebellion against accepted elitist social mores and codes.

1961

In 1961 he moved to the Ministry of Indian Railways in New Delhi where he worked until 1967.

1965

Kakkanadan married Ammini in 1965.

They have three children: Radha, Rajan Kakkanadan and Rishi.

1967

He went to Germany in 1967 on a scholarship to pursue research in literature but abandoned it midway and returned to Kerala to become a full-time writer.

1971

Kakkanadan also worked as an editorial member in S. K. Nair's Malayalanadu weekly published from Kollam, between 1971 and 1973.

Artist Rajan Kakkanadan and writers Thampi Kakkanadan and G. Ignatius Kakkanadan are his brothers.

Ignatius, his elder brother, was a journalist and was an editorial board member of Janayugom and Malayalam magazine Soviet Nadu.

He was also a noted translator and had translated the works of B. R. Ambedkar and Amartya Sen under a Kerala Bhasha Institute Project.

Kakkanadan's younger brother, Thampi, was also a writer who authored several short stories and published a novel- Kalapathinte Orma.

Kakkanadan also has two sisters: Ammini, wife of the former Member of Parliament P. A. Solomon, and Annie.

2011

Kakkanadan died on 19 October 2011, aged 76, at Bishop Benziger's hospital in Kollam.

He had had cancer for a few years.

He was laid to rest with full state honours at the Polayathode public crematorium complex.

He is survived by his two sons, Rajan and Rishi, and daughter Radha.

2019

His wife Ammini died on 15 September 2019.

Though he had started writing much before the railway stint and even wrote the novel Vasoori, it was his second novel Sakshi that brought him laurels.

The book had a great impact on the younger generation of Malayalam readers and was credited with breaking new grounds in Malayalam literature.