Vallathol Narayana Menon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vallathol Narayana Menon

Indian poet

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1878

Place of Birth: Malappuram, Kerala, India

Date of Death: 13-Mar-1958

Profession: poet, translator, author

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Vallathol Narayana Menon (16 October 1878 – 13 March 1958) was a poet in the Malayalam language, which is spoken in the south Indian state of Kerala.
He was one of the triumvirate poets of modern Malayalam, along with Kumaran Asan and Ulloor S.
Parameswara Iyer.
The honorific Mahakavi (English: "great poet") was applied to him in 1913 after the publication of his Mahakavya Chitrayogam.
He was a nationalist poet and wrote a series of poems on various aspects of the Indian freedom movement.
He also wrote against caste restriction, tyrannies and orthodoxies.
He founded the Kerala Kalamandalam and is credited with revitalising the traditional Keralite dance form known as Kathakali.