Ootupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan (July 2 1930-March 30 2005) was an Indian author and cartoonist, an important figure in modern Malayalam literature. Wikipedia
The eminent Indian writer, novelist and cartoonist OV Vijayan has died at a Hyderabad hospital after a prolonged battle against illness. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4394419.stm
An obituary... one of the greatest writers the world has ever produced. And what raised him to that pedestal is his first and best novel, <i>The Legend of Khasak</i>, which was published around the same time that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s path-bre www.chowk.com/show_article.cgi?aid=00005144&channel=leafy...
Rajeev Srinivasan's interview with O V Vijayan, the great Indian writer who passed into the ages on Wednesday, was published in rediff.com in 1998. us.rediff.com/news/2005/mar/31intera.htm
The definitive Wikipedia entry for O. V. Vijayan. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._V._Vijayan
...Homage to O.V. Vijayan's Khasak ... Long before the lizards, before the dinosaurs, two spores set out on an incredible journey. They came to a valley bathed in the placid... www.hackorama.com/malayalam/ovvijayan/
Around the 1990s, I had the rare privilege to become a close acquaintance of O V Vijayan, a legend in every sense of word, stroke and speech. www.chowk.com/show_article.cgi?aid=00005144&channel=l...