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Vijayan , was an Indian author and cartoonist, who was an important figure in modern Malayalam language literature. Best known for his first novel Khasakkinte Itihasam , Vijayan was the author of six novels, nine short-story collections, and nine collections of essays, memoirs and reflections. He wrote his first short story, "Tell Father Gonsalves", in It set off a great literary revolution and cleaved the history of Malayalam fiction into pre-Khasak and post-Khasak.

While Khasakkinte Itihasam continues to be his best-known work as an angry young man, his later works, Gurusagaram The Infinity of Grace , Pravachakante Vazhi The Path of the Prophet and Thalamurakal Generations bespeak a mature transcendentalist.

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Vijayan authored many volumes of short stories, which range from the comic to the philosophical and show a diversity of situations, tones and styles. Vijayan translated most of his own works from Malayalam to English. He was also an editorial cartoonist and political observer and worked for news publications including The Statesman and The Hindu.

Vijayan was born on 2 July at Vilayanchaathanoor village in Palakkad district in Kerala. Born premature in the seventh month, Vijayan was sickly from childhood and spent most of his time confined to his room. His father O. His youngest sister O. Usha is a Malayalam poet. As a child, Vijayan was largely homeschooled. Formal schooling began at the age of twelve, when he joined Raja's High School, Kottakkal in Malabar, directly into sixth grade.

The informal education arranged by his father during his absentee years was sufficient to keep him at par with his peers. The following year, Velukkutty was transferred and Vijayan joined the school at Koduvayur in Palakkad.