About K. S. Venkitachalam
K. S. Venkitachalam was a literary critic and translator.
Kavasserry Sheshayyar Venkitachalam is a translator and literary critic from Kerala, India. He has translated 26 books from Tamil and 5 books from English into Malayalam. He has also written reviews for about two hundred books. He received many awards including Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize by Sahitya Akademi Government of India.
Biography Kavasserry Sheshayyar Venkitachalam was born into a Tamil Brahmin family that has lived in Kozhikode for three generations. Although born in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, Venkadachalam's mother tongue is Tamil, which helps him translate the Tamil original text into Malayalam without losing the essence.
Venkitachalam was an deputy manager at the State Bank of India. He was a member of the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize selection committee in 2019.
Venkitachalam, who is single, now lives in Karaparamba in Kozhikode Corporation. Tamil Nadu Nalli Chinnaswamy-Thessai Ettum Award for Translation (2017)
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