Real Estate Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, Nagercoil. (anitpromoters.com): R. K. Narayan (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), (shortened from Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami) was an Indian author whose works of fiction include a series of books about people and their interactions in an imagined town in India called Malgudi. He is one of three leading figures of early Indian literature in English, along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. He is credited with bringing Indian literature in English to the rest of the world, and is regarded as one of India's greatest English language novelists.(anitpromoters.com)

Friday, 9 November 2012

R. K. Narayan (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), (shortened from Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami) was an Indian author whose works of fiction include a series of books about people and their interactions in an imagined town in India called Malgudi. He is one of three leading figures of early Indian literature in English, along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. He is credited with bringing Indian literature in English to the rest of the world, and is regarded as one of India's greatest English language novelists.(anitpromoters.com)

R. K. Narayan

Nationality: Indian

Categories: Fiction , Short Stories / Fiction , Others , Travel

Born: October 10, 1906

Died: May 13, 2001

Exceptionally respected for his novels, short stories, R.K. Narayan was born in 1906 in Madras. He studied in Mysore and lived there for over five decades. Narayan created a fictional town of Malgudi in the pages of 22 books (14 novels & eight short-story collections). Narayan had a humorous way of presenting life around him. His first Novel Swamy and Friends and its successor, Bachelor of Art's are also set in the enchanting fictional territory of Malgudi. His books are regularly published in USA, UK and India and have also been translated into several European and Indian regional languages.

In fact, his novel, The Guide won him the National Prize of the Indian Literary Academy, the country's highest Literary honour. He also bagged the A C Benson Medal in 1980.

He has also written four collection of short stories: A horse and 2 goats, An Astrologer's Day and other stories, Lawley Road and Malgudi Days; he has published 2 travel books, 4 collection of essays and several other books. His biography R.K. Narayan, The Early Years provides an impressive insight into the first four decades of his life. The famous cartoonist R K Laxman is his brother.

Graham Greene, who in 1935 was instrumental in getting Narayan's debut novel, Swami and Friends, published in England once said: Narayan wakes in me a spring of gratitude. Without him I could never have known what it is like to be Indian.

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