P. K. Chandran

Indian writer and translator

Nirmala Pathirikkat

(m. 1984)

Children2

P. K. Chandran (born 10 May 1952) is an Indian translator and creative writer in Malayalam and Hindi. His Karnan, a translation of Shivaji Sawant's Marathi novel Mrityunjay, won the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 2001.^[1]

Early life

Personal life

Books

Insulted and Humiliated Characters in Puranas (Sarthak Prakasan, New Delhi)
Kunthiparvam (Chithra Publishers, Tvm)
Droupati (DC Books,Kottayam)
Gandhari (DC Books,Kottayam)
Sita (DC Books,Kottayam)
Kunthi (DC Books,Kottayam)
Drona(DC Books,Kottayam)
Sathivathy (DC Books,Kottayam)
Bheeshma (DC Books,Kottayam)
Yayathi (DC Books,Kottayam)
Ravanan (DC Books,Kottayam)

Translations

Karnan (Mrityunjaya of Sivaji Sawant - DC Books Marathi)
Yantra (Malayattoor Ramakrishnan - National Books Trust -Malayalam)
Samakaleena Cherukathakal (National Books Trust - Malayalam)
Yugandharan (Yugandhar of Sivaji Sawant- Kendra Sahitya Academy, New Delhi - Marathi )
Mohammed Rafi - sangeethavum jeevithavum (Hindi)
Njan Hinduvanu (Asghar Wajahat - Hindi)
Saadat Hasan Mantoyude Kathakal (Saadat Hasan Manto - Urdu)
Avarnan (Sharan Kumar Limbale -Marathi)

Awards

Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for Karnan^[2]

References

^ "..:: SAHITYA : Akademi Awards ::". Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
^ "Kendra Sahitya Akademy Award for the novel "Karnan"". Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2017.