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{{Short description|Indian writer}}
'''A. S. Panchapakesa Ayyar''' (1899–1963) was an Indian novelist, dramatist, short story writer and justice. He was elected as a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]], [[London]] in 1933.

==Life==
A. S. P. Ayyar was born on 26 January 1899 at Ayilam, a village near [[Palakkad|Palghat]] in [[Kerala]] state to a landlord father.<ref name="BensonConolly2004">{{cite book|last=Elias|first=Mohamed|editor1=Eugene Benson|editor2=L.W. Conolly|title=Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGfMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA91|date=30 November 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-46848-5|pages=91–92}}</ref><ref name"Reddy1998">{{cite thesis|type = Ph.D thesis|title=Social relevance in the selected plays of A S P Ayyar, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Asif Currimbhoy and Partap Sharma A study|last=Reddy|first=K. V. Subba|year=1998|publisher=[[Sri Krishnadevaraya University]]|location=Anantapur|chapter=Introdcution|chapter-url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/86802/6/06_chapter%201.pdf|url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/86802|hdl=10603/86802|pages=8–9}}</ref> He initially studied at [[Thiruvananthapuram|Trivandrum]] and [[Madras]], and moved to England in 1919 to study at [[Oxford University]], and became a lawyer.<ref name="BensonConolly2004"/> In 1933, he was elected as a fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]], [[London]]. He was appointed the justice of the [[Madras High Court]] during 1948–59.<ref name="BensonConolly2004"/>

He married Vedanayaki Ammal in 1919.<ref name="Roberts2004">{{cite book|author=C. Roberts|title=What India Thinks: Being a Symposium of Thought Contributed by 50 Eminent Men and Women Having India's Interest at Heart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLct2qLz-_cC&pg=PA326|year=2004|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-1880-0|page=326}}</ref> They had a son, [[A. P. Venkateswaran]] (1930–2014), who was a diplomat.<ref name="Ranganathan 2015">{{cite web|last=Ranganathan|first=C.V.|title=Book review 'Venkat For Ever': A biographical tour de force|website=Deccan Chronicle|date=8 December 2015|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/151208/lifestyle-booksart/article/book-review-venkat-ever-biographical-tour-de-force|access-date=4 January 2021}}</ref>

==Works==
Ayyar had published about 27 works which include novels, plays, short stories, literary criticism, religious works, [[jurisprudence]], travelogue, biography and an autobiography. He had translated several [[Sanskrit]] works into English.<ref name="BensonConolly2004"/>

Ayyar wrote his novels in late 1940s and in early 1950s. His novels have historical [[Setting (narrative)|settings]]. His first novel ''A Historical Romance of Ancient India'' (1930) tells a story of a [[Gupta Empire|Gupta]] king who resisted the [[Huns|Hun]] invaders during the 6th-century. His novel ''Three Men of Destiny'' (1039) is a story of [[Alexander the Great]], with two other main characters: [[Chandragupta Maurya]] and [[Chanakya]].<ref name="BensonConolly2004"/>

He wrote his autobiography under the title ''Twenty Five Years a Civilian'' (1962).<ref name="BensonConolly2004"/>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book|last=Menon|first=K. P. K.|title=A.S.P. Ayyar|year=1980|publisher=Macmillan, India|series=Kerala Writes in English|oclc=215596504}}

==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=A. S. P. Ayyar |sopt=t}}

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[[Category:1899 births]]
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[[Category:Dramatists and playwrights from Kerala]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature]]
[[Category:Indian autobiographers]]
[[Category:Novelists from Kerala]]
[[Category:Indian historical novelists]]

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