K. B. Prasannakumar is a native of Vembally near Kuravilangad in Kottayam district of Kerala.[1] His father is K.P. Bhaskara Kaimal and mother K. Thanka.[2] He studied at Kumaranalloor Devi Vilasam High School and Deva Matha College, Kuravilangad.[3] He graduated in Physics and obtained a postgraduate degree in Malayalam. He retired as an officer at State Bank of India.[1]
Prasannakumar and his wife Radhika, who is an employee in LIC, have one daughter.[1]
Literary contributions
Literary criticism
Prasannakumar became interested in literary criticism when he began serious reading in the early nineteen eighties.[4] Then he started writing literary criticism articles in the Samathalam magazine.[4] His first article was on P. Kunhiraman Nair's poem Kaliyachan. He then wrote many other articles in the eighties and nineties and wrote a book called Athijeevikkunna Vakku (Meanig: The Surviving Word).[4]
Travelogues
Prasannakumar, who has made several trips to the Himalayas, never intended to write a book about his travels, but he had written travel articles in local newspapers and magazines.[5] Later, DC Books commissioned him to edit a book on Himalayan travels, Himalayam: Kazhcha, Darshanam.[5] This was his first work on travel.[5] The other travel books he wrote include Uttarakhand: Himalaya Devabhoomi (Manorama Publication, 2009), an anthology of poems on travel titled Sanchi, Malakalile Kattu Parayaunnathu (Prabhatham Book House, 2010), Himavazhiyile buddha sanchaarangal (Mathrubhumi Books, 2013; 2018), Jalakkannady (Ivory publishing house , 2020) and Sivam panchakedaram (Mathrubhumi Books, 2012) a travelogue on Panch Kedar.[5][6]
