Kottarathil Sankunni

Kottarathil Sankunni
Born (1855-03-23)23 March 1855
Died 22 July 1937(1937-07-22) (aged 82)
Nationality Indian
Occupation Writer
Known for Aithihyamala

Kottarathil Sankunni (real name: Vasudevan) was a well-known author of Malayalam literature, born on 23 March 1855 in Kottayam, Travancore. He made huge contributions in both poetry and prose. He died on 22 July 1937. He started compiling the legends of Kerala in 1909 and completed the work in eight volumes over a quarter of a century. "Aithihyamala" (Garland of Legends), is a collection of stories of legends prepared by Kottarathil Sankunni. The works on the legends were collected and published by Sankunni in the famous Malayalam literary magazine of the nineteenth century, the Bhashaposhini. Later, they were collected in eight parts and published by the Reddiar Press in Quilon, sometime in the early twentieth century. India's first writers' cooperative, the National Bookstall started publishing these articles as collections on behalf of the 'Kottarathil Sankunni Memorial Committee' in 1974 and later this was taken up by another publisher, D. C. Books, in 1991. Such is their popularity that, from 1991 till 2004 almost 150,000 copies of these stories were distributed.

His contributions in both prose and poetry, including Kathakali literature and Thullal, earned him a place in Malayalam literature.

Famous works include:

Index of Eight Parts of Aithihya Mala[1]

Book I

Book II

Book III

Book IV

Book V

Book VI

Book VII

Book VIII

Kottarathil Sankunni

References

  1. ↑ http://cs.nyu.edu/kandathi/kottarathil.html
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