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'''Paloor Madhavan Namboothiri''' (22 June 1932 – 9 October 2018), commonly known as '''M. N. Paloor''', was a [[Malayalam|Malayalam-language]] poet from [[Kerala]], [[India]].<ref>[http://www.mathrubhumi.com/nri/section/print.php?id=62217 "പാലൂര്-ജനങ്ങള് നെഞ്ചിലേറ്റിയ കവി -എം. മുകുന്ദന്"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219032428/http://www.mathrubhumi.com/nri/section/print.php?id=62217 |date=2013-12-19 }} (in Malayalam). ''[[Mathrubhumi]]''. Retrieved 2 July 2013.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091030102920/http://www.hindu.com/2009/10/26/stories/2009102658930400.htm "Revive pen's power for social reform"]. ''[[The Hindu]]''. 26 October 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2013.</ref> He was one of the early modernist poets in Malayalam but his writings were steeped in the poetic tradition of Malayalam. He was a recipient of the [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award]], the state's highest literary honour, in 1983 for his collection ''Kalikalam''. He also received the [[Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award]] for his autobiography ''Kathayillathavante Katha'' in 2013.<br />
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==Life==<br />
He was born as the son of Paloor Manakkal Madhavan Namboothiri, Sr. and Sreedevi Antharjanam on 22 June 1932 in [[Parakkadavu]], [[Ernakulam]]. Hailing from a very conservative [[Nambudiri|Namboothiri]] family, he learned [[Sanskrit]] under scholar [[K. P. Narayana Pisharody]] at an early age. He also had the opportunity to learn [[Kathakali]] at [[Kerala Kalamandalam]] under Pattikkanthodi Ravunny Menon and Vazhenkada Kunju Nair.<ref name="Profile1"/> He is not formally educated.<ref name="Profile1"/><br />
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Growing up in an impoverished Namboothiri household in Paravoor, poetry was his mother's most precious gift to him. His mother got married at the age of 14. She would recite him poems, of G. Sankara Kurup, of Poonthanam and Ezhuthachan.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} He repeated verses everywhere, at home, while playing or merely gazing at the waters of the Chalakkudy river.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}<br />
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He left home to [[Bombay]] and engaged in different trades for a living. He had served the Indian Airlines in Bombay. He worked first in the transport department and later in the maintenance section and retired as Senior operator of Ground Supporting Division in 1990. After retirement he settled in Kovoor in [[Calicut]].<ref name="Profile1">[https://www.namboothiri.com/articles/malayalam-literature.htm "M. N. Paloor's profile"]. Namboothiri.com. Retrieved 2 July 2013.</ref> <br />
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==Poetry==<br />
Paloor is the author of some of the finest Malayalam poems of the latter half of the 20th century. His major collections are ''Kalikalam, Pedithondan, Theerthayathra, Bhangiyum Abhangiyum, Sangamasangeetham, Pachamanga'' and ''Sarga Dhara''.<br />
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It was a personal tragedy that made him turn to poetry seriously. "It was after my sister's death at the age of 22 that poetry grew in stature in my life," he says.<br />
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Paloor's poems traced the sufferings of mankind involving all the complexities of a highly urbanised system. He is one of those poets who were part of a major turning point in the history of 20th-century Malayalam poetry. Poet and scholar [[K. Satchidanandan]] writes in ''Indian Literature'', the [[Sahitya Akademi]] publication: "M.N. Paloor conceives God as a Sultan, smoking his pipe filled with dried human lives (''The Coward''). He envisages himself as the crazy poet of the 20th century caught between comets and [[Boeing]]s, living on [[Anacin]] (''A Poet at the Airport'')."<ref>{{cite journal|title=Indian Literature|author=K. Satchidanandan|author-link=K. Satchidanandan|volume=6|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|year=1993|issue=158 |pages=175–179 |jstor=23337574 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23337574.pdf}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
*''Pedithondan'' (''The Coward'')<br />
*''Kalikalam''<br />
*''Theerthayathra'' (''The Pilgrimage'')<br />
*''Sugama Sangeetham''<br />
*''Kavitha'' (''The Poem'')<br />
*''Pachamanga'' (''Raw Mango'')<br />
*''Bhangiyum Abhangiyum''<br />
*''Ardhanareeswaran''<br />
*''Kathayillathavante Katha'' (Autobiography)<br />
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== Death ==<br />
He died due to age-related ailments on 9 October 2018, at the age of 86.<ref>{{cite news |date=9 October 2018 |title=Poet M.N. Paloor passes away |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/poet-mn-paloor-passes-away/article25163950.ece |access-date=14 January 2021 |work=The Hindu}}</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
*1983: [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award]] (Poetry) for ''Kalikalam''<ref>[http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/ksa/Awards/Mal_Awards.htm "Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426134403/http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/sp/Writers/ksa/Awards/Mal_Awards.htm |date=26 April 2013 }} (in Malayalam). [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]]. Retrieved 2 July 2013.</ref><ref>[http://kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3065&Itemid=2379 "Literary Awards"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618062155/http://kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3065&Itemid=2379 |date=2012-06-18 }}. [[Government of Kerala]]. Retrieved 2 July 2013.</ref><br />
*2009: [[Asan Memorial Poetry Prize]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091009110026/http://www.hindu.com/2009/10/05/stories/2009100558950800.htm "Award for Malayalam poet Paloor"]. ''[[The Hindu]]''. 5 October 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2013.</ref><br />
*2004: [[Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award]] for his over all contribution<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040924202212/http://www.hindu.com/2004/08/10/stories/2004081003460300.htm "Antony to present Akademi Fellowship"]. ''[[The Hindu]]''. 10 August 2004. Retrieved 2 July 2013.</ref><br />
*2007: O.M.C. Narayanan Namboodiripad Memorial Deviprasadam Award<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080215212754/http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/11/stories/2008021152730300.htm "Deviprasadam awards"]. ''[[The Hindu]]''. 11 February 2008. Retrieved 2 July 2013.</ref><br />
*2007: Kavanakauthukam-Kanipayyur Award for ''Ardhanareeswaran''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080107191549/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/25/stories/2007032510970400.htm "Briefly: Award for M.N. Paloor"]. ''[[The Hindu]]''. 25 March 2007. Retrieved 2 July 2013.</ref><br />
* 2007: [[Deviprasadam Trust Award]]<ref name="Deviprasadam Trust">[https://www.namboothiri.com/articles/awards.htm "Awards, Trusts and Scholarships: 2: Deviprasaadam Trust"]. Namboothiri.com. Retrieved 3 January 2023.</ref><br />
*2013: [[Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award]] for his autobiography ''Kathayillathavante Katha''<ref>[http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award2013-e.pdf "Poets dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2013"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219002741/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award2013-e.pdf |date=19 December 2013 }}. [[Sahitya Akademi]]. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.</ref><br />
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