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A Short History of Malayalam Litt
A Short History of Malayalam Litt
Dr. K. Ayyappa Paniker
Malayalam, the mother tongue of nearly thirty million Malayalis, ninety per cent of whom live in Kerala State in the south-west corner of India, belongs to the Dravidian family of languages. Like the speakers, the language also has been receptive to influences from abroad and tolerant of elements added from outside. Malayalam literature too reflects this spirit of accommodation and has over the centuries developed a tradition which, even while rooted in the locality, is truly universal in taste. It is remarkably free from the provincialisms and parochial prejudices that have bedeviled the literature of certain other areas. To its basic Dravidian stock have been added elements borrowed or adopted from non-Dravidian literatures such as Sanskrit, Arabic, French, Portuguese and English. The earliest of these associations was inevitably with Tamil. Sanskrit, however, accounts for the largest of the foreign influences, followed closely in recent times by English. The broad-based cosmopolitanism has indeed become a distinctive feature of Malayalam literature. According to the most dependable evidence now available to us, Malayalam literature is at least a thousand years old. The language must certainly be older; but lingu
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Jnanpith Award
Indian literary award
Jnyanapeeth Award | |
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Citation plaque | |
Awarded for | Literary award in India |
Sponsored by | Bharatiya Jnanpith |
Formerly called | Aditya |
Reward(s) | ₹11 lakh (equivalent to ₹17lakh or US$19, in ) |
First award | |
Final award | |
Most recent winner | Gulzar Rambhadracharya |
Total awarded | 64 |
First winner | G. Sankara Kurup |
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The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". Instituted in , the award is bestowed only on Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and English,[a] with no posthumous conferral.[2]
From till , the award was given to the authors for their "most outstanding work" and consisted of a citation plaque, a cash prize and a bronze replica of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge and wisdom.[3][4][5] The first recipient of the award was the Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup who received the award in for his collection of poems, Odakkuzhal (The Bamboo Flute), published in [6] The rules were revis