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. 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."ബി. രാജീവൻ" . Puzha.com. Retrieved 3 June 2020. He has been living together with poet Savithri Rajeevan from 1975 onwards."സർഗയൗവനത്തിൽ സാവിത്രി രാജീവൻ". Deshabhimani. 4 April 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
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.
List of works
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 Chintha Ravindran Award, 2019 Kerala Library Council Award, 2015 M. N. Vijayan Award, 2014 O. V. Vijayan Sahitya Puraskaram, 2013 C. P. Menon Award, 2013 Basheer Award, 2011 Narendra Prasad Foundation Award, 2011 Guru Darshana Award, 2011 Shanthakumaran Thampi Foundation Award, 2011
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