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23 august 2006 thiruvananthapuram kavalam , kerala ayyappa panicker indian 12 september 1930 ayyappa panicker malayalam poetry ayyapapanicker323.jpg ayyappa paniker
 k. ayyappa paniker poet , literary critic , academic , scholar .
ayyappa paniker

dr k. ayyappa paniker , sometimes spelt `` ayyappa panicker '' -lrb- 12 september 1930 -- 23 august 2006 -rrb- was an influential malayalam poet , literary critic , and an academic and a scholar in modern and post-modern literary theories as well as ancient indian aesthetics and literary traditions .
he was one of the pioneers of modernism in malayalam poetry , where his seminal works like `` kurukshethram '' -lrb- 1960 -rrb- , considered a turning point in malayalam poetry , `` ayyappapanikkarude krithikal '' and `` chintha '' and several essays were an important influence on the playwrights of his generation .
in an academic career which ran in consonance with his literary one , and spanned four decades , he taught in various colleges and universities before retiring as the director , institute of english , university of kerala .
he published over 25 works , translated several important work to malayalam , including guru granth sahib and a book in french ; as a scholarly editor he produced numerous anthologies on indian literature , he was the chief editor of the sahitya akademi 's `` indian literary encyclopaedia '' .
another important work by him `` indian narratology '' , published by ignca , was the first of its kind to study various forms of the art of narration , in indian literature , starting with vedic and oral literature to buddhist and contemporary literature .
