B. Rajeevan

{{short description|Indian author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Use Indian English|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox writer  | name = B. Rajeevan | image = File:Malayalam Critic B Rajeevan1.resized.JPG | caption = Rajeevan in 2013 | honorific_suffix = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1946 | birth_place = Kayamkulam, Travancore | residence = | education = SN College, Quilon<br>University College, Trivandrum | occupation = Literary critic, author | nationality = British | period = 1997–present | genre = Literary criticism, essay | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''Vakkukalum Vasthukkalum'' | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | website = | signature = }}

'''B. Rajeevan''' is a Malayalam author and literary critic from Kerala, India.

==Biography== He was born in 1946 in Kayamkulam near Quilon, Kerala. He studied at SN College, Quilon and University College, Trivandrum.<ref name="Bio"/> He has been teaching Malayalam literature in government colleges since 1971. During the Emergency in 1975, he was branded as a Naxalite sympathiser and had to face police harassment and house arrest. In the eighties, he served on the State Committee of the Janakeeya Samskarika Vedi (People's Cultural Forum) and participated in various struggles. He was arrested and was expelled from his long-time college post. Since 1969, he has written and published essays on philosophy, aesthetics, history, political thought, film and poetry.<ref name="Bio">[http://www.puzha.com/malayalam/bookstore/cgi-bin/author-detail.cgi?code=308 "ബി. രാജീവൻ"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929082436/http://www.puzha.com/malayalam/bookstore/cgi-bin/author-detail.cgi?code=308 |date=29 September 2012 }}. ''Puzha.com''. Retrieved 3 June 2020.</ref> He has been living together with poet Savithri Rajeevan from 1975 onwards.<ref>[https://www.deshabhimani.com/women/savithri-rajeevan/716687 "സർഗയൗവനത്തിൽ സാവിത്രി രാജീവൻ"]. ''Deshabhimani''. 4 April 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2020.</ref>

He has a position as a jury member of the Kerala State Film Award Committee(1989) and is also the Chairman of the Jury on the John Abraham Award Committee.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About – B. Rajeevan |url=https://rajeevanb.in/about/ |access-date=2025-04-07 |language=en-US}}</ref>

==List of works== {{BLP unreferenced section|date=May 2023}} * ''Swathanthryathinte Samagratha'' (The Integrity of Freedom) * ''Jaivarashtreeyavum Janasanjayavum'' (Biopolitics and Populism) * ''Marxisavum Shasthravum'' (Marxism and Science) * ''Anyavalkaranavum Yogavum'' (Alienation and Destiny) * ''Jananibidamaya Danthagopuram'' * ''Varthamanathinte Charithram'' (History of the Present) * ''Vakkukalum Vasthukkalum'' (Words and Objects) * ''EMSinte Swapnam'' (The Dream of EMS)

==Awards== * Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, 2011<ref>{{cite news |title=Sahitya Akademi awards announced |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/sahitya-akademi-awards-announced/article3715418.ece |newspaper=The Hindu | date=2 August 2012 |access-date=6 July 2020}}</ref> * Chintha Ravindran Award, 2019<ref>{{cite web |title=ചിന്ത രവീന്ദ്രന്‍ പുരസ്‌കാരം ബി.രാജീവന് |url=https://www.dcbooks.com/chintha-ravi-award-for-b-rajeevan.html |website=DC Books | date=13 July 2019 |access-date=6 July 2020}}</ref> * Kerala Library Council Award, 2015 * M. N. Vijayan Award, 2014<ref>{{cite news |title=B. Rajeevan to receive MN Vijayan award |url=https://www.pressreader.com/oman/times-of-oman/20140709/282192239091370 |newspaper=Times of Oman |via=PressReader| date=9 July 2014 |access-date=6 July 2020}}</ref> * O. V. Vijayan Sahitya Puraskaram, 2013<ref>{{cite news|url=http://digitalpaper.mathrubhumi.com/362750/Outside-Kerala/26-OCTOBER-2014#page/7/2|title=O.V. Vijayan Award for B. Rajeevan|date=26 October 2014|newspaper=Mathrubhumi|access-date=6 July 2020}}</ref> * C. P. Menon Award, 2013<ref>{{cite news |title=ഡോ. സി പി മേനോന്‍ പുരസ്കാരങ്ങള്‍ വിതരണംചെയ്തു |url=https://www.deshabhimani.com/books/general-news/358293 |newspaper=Deshabhimani | date=29 September 2013 |access-date=6 July 2020}}</ref> * Basheer Award, 2011<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.basheersmarakatrust.com/ |title=The Award Winners |publisher=Basheer Smaraka Trust |access-date=6 July 2020}}</ref> * Narendra Prasad Foundation Award, 2011{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} * Guru Darshana Award, 2011{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} * Shanthakumaran Thampi Foundation Award, 2011{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

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