R. K. Narayan (1906–2001)
Auteur van The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
Over de Auteur
R. K. Narayan was born Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanaswami in Madras, India on October 10, 1906. He graduated from Maharaja College of Mysore with a B.A. degree in 1930. He attempted to teach for a bit but then switched to writing full time. His first book, Swami and Friends, was published in toon meer Britain in 1935. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 30 novels and hundreds of short stories. His other novels included The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher, The Guide, The Financial Expert, The Man Eater of Malgudi, The Vendor of Sweets, and The World of Nagaraj. He was one of the first Indians to write in English and gain international recognition. He received numerous awards including the Padma Bhushan, India's highest prize. He died on May 13, 2001 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Werken van R. K. Narayan
Swami and Friends / The Bachelor of Arts / The Dark Room / The English Teacher (1935) 219 exemplaren
Mr. Sampath: The Printer of Malgudi / The Financial Expert / Waiting for the Mahatma (1948) 142 exemplaren
Memories of Malgudi: The Dark Room, The English Teacher, Waiting for the Mahatma, The Guide and The World of Nagaraja (2000) 66 exemplaren
The Magic of Malgudi: Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Vendor of Sweets (2000) 36 exemplaren
The World of Malgudi: Mr. Sampath / The Financial Expert / The Painter of Signs / A Tiger for Malgudi (2000) 11 exemplaren
Next Sunday 6 exemplaren
Old and new: Eighteen short stories 4 exemplaren
Malgudi Days I 2 exemplaren
Mysore 2 exemplaren
Geen titel 1 exemplaar
MALAGUDI DAYS 1 exemplaar
Short Story Collections by R. K. Narayan: Gods, Demons and Others, Malgudi Days, the Grandmother's Tale and Selected… (2010) 1 exemplaar
Guide 1 exemplaar
MR SAMPATH 1 exemplaar
The Ramayana 1 exemplaar
MY DAYS 1 exemplaar
Around the Temple [short story] 1 exemplaar
WEEDURU BITHTHI : වීදුරු බිත්ති [The Guide] 1 exemplaar
Understanding Ramayana as Rama Within 1 exemplaar
මගේ කල දවස 1 exemplaar
මගේ කල දවස ආර්. කේ. නාරායන්ගේ ස්වයං… 1 exemplaar
हलवाई / HALWAI (Marathi Edition) 1 exemplaar
Jest in Time: 175 Years 1 exemplaar
The Guide | The Man-Eater of Malgudi 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Narayan, Rasipuram Krishnaswami
- Geboortedatum
- 1906-10-10
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2001-05-13
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- India
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- India
- Geboorteplaats
- Madras, British India
- Plaats van overlijden
- Chennai, India
- Woonplaatsen
- Madras, India (now Chennai ∙ India)
Mysore, India - Opleiding
- University of Mysore
Lutheran Mission School, Purasawalkam, India
C.R.C. High School
Christian College High School - Beroepen
- novelist
short-story writer
translator - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1981)
Royal Society of Literature - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- National Prize of the Sahitya Akademi (1958)
Padma Bhushan (1964)
AC Benson Medal (1980)
Member of Rajya Sabha (1989)
Padma Vibhushan (2000)
Honorary Doctorate (University of Mysore) (toon alle 8)
Honorary Doctorate (Delhi University)
Honorary Doctorate (University of Leeds)
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ThIs recent reprint, with an introduction from that great modern comic storyteller Alexander McCall Smith, brings together three short novels from Narayan’s middle period, all written shortly after Independence.
In Mr Sampath: the printer of Malgudi a young man comes to Malgudi to set up a new, socially-critical weekly magazine. The only printer he can find willing to take on the legal risks is the eccentric Sampath, whose ancient printing plant clearly isn’t quite up to the job, but who somehow gets the magazine going anyway. All goes well until Sampath is distracted by an opportunity to get into the movie business, and chaos ensues as the young editor finds himself scripting a Hindu epic instead of writing columns attacking slum landlords and town officials.
The financial expert, Margayya, is a middleman who when we first meet him is making a good living sitting under a banyan tree outside the Co-operative Land Bank helping farmers to fill in their loan applications. A humiliation makes him determined to rise in the world and make a career for his son, and a few years later he has made it to a city office and is running a wildly successful pyramid scheme, but of course the son isn’t interested in following in his father’s footsteps, and the pyramid collapses…
Waiting for the Mahatma is more directly historical — a young man with no real political convictions is drawn into the Independence campaign after being asked for donations by a pretty girl who turns out to be in Mahatma Gandhi’s entourage. The only way to get close to the girl is to join the movement himself. Narayan cleverly manages to convey both the enormous excitement of the Mahatma’s personal charisma and the difficulty normal humans face in trying to put his radical ideas into practice in their lives.… (meer)