R. K. Narayan (1906–2001)
Författare till The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
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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 visa mer 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) visa färre
Verk av R. K. Narayan
Mr. Sampath: The Printer of Malgudi / The Financial Expert / Waiting for the Mahatma (1948) 143 exemplar
Memories of Malgudi: The Dark Room, The English Teacher, Waiting for the Mahatma, The Guide and The World of Nagaraja (2000) 66 exemplar
The Magic of Malgudi: Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Vendor of Sweets (2000) 36 exemplar
The World of Malgudi: Mr. Sampath / The Financial Expert / The Painter of Signs / A Tiger for Malgudi (2000) 11 exemplar
Next Sunday 6 exemplar
Old and new: Eighteen short stories 4 exemplar
Malgudi Days I 2 exemplar
Mysore 2 exemplar
Ingen titel 1 exemplar
MALAGUDI DAYS 1 exemplar
Short Story Collections by R. K. Narayan: Gods, Demons and Others, Malgudi Days, the Grandmother's Tale and Selected… (2010) 1 exemplar
Guide 1 exemplar
MR SAMPATH 1 exemplar
The Ramayana 1 exemplar
MY DAYS 1 exemplar
Around the Temple [short story] 1 exemplar
WEEDURU BITHTHI : වීදුරු බිත්ති [The Guide] 1 exemplar
Understanding Ramayana as Rama Within 1 exemplar
මගේ කල දවස 1 exemplar
මගේ කල දවස ආර්. කේ. නාරායන්ගේ ස්වයං… 1 exemplar
हलवाई / HALWAI (Marathi Edition) 1 exemplar
Jest in Time: 175 Years 1 exemplar
The Guide | The Man-Eater of Malgudi 1 exemplar
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Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 28 exemplar
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- Narayan, Rasipuram Krishnaswami
- Födelsedag
- 1906-10-10
- Avled
- 2001-05-13
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- Nationalitet
- India
- Land (för karta)
- India
- Födelseort
- Madras, British India
- Dödsort
- Chennai, India
- Bostadsorter
- Madras, India (now Chennai ∙ India)
Mysore, India - Utbildning
- University of Mysore
Lutheran Mission School, Purasawalkam, India
C.R.C. High School
Christian College High School - Yrken
- novelist
short-story writer
translator - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1981)
Royal Society of Literature - Priser och utmärkelser
- 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) (visa alla 8)
Honorary Doctorate (Delhi University)
Honorary Doctorate (University of Leeds)
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Read by Richard Wulf
Length: ~7 hours
It’s always a delight to read Narayan. Malgudi Street, I feel I know it backwards. The vendors, the characters, the food, the little quarrels, the homour. Narayan’s books bring to life the villages and the people of my own favorite country, India.
Waiting for the Mahatma is the tale of Sriran and Bharati, two young people who meet at the beginning of the Indian war for independence. Bharati is passionate and fully committed to the cause. Sriran joins the movement only when he meets Bharati who is campaigning on the streets of his village in southern India.
Bharati will not marry the smitten Syrian until she has Gandhi’s blessing. Syrian is passive and sees the world through bewildered eyes. He’s innocent and seems to be dim-witted, but every now and then he shows spark, but then in the most inappropriate of times. Fortunately much of the time Bharati is around to put him in his place but not always, and when he follows the idea of an older man and tries, against Gandhi’s non-violence decree, to derail a train, he gets himself thrown into prison.
After several years Sryian is freed. It’s another world. Independence has been achieved and there’s the inevitable disorganization. He locates
Bharati who has relocated to Delhi where she lives with other Gandhi followers, caring for children who have been displaced from their families due to the Hindu-Muslim conflict. Gandhi has decreed that the children be given names of flowers, so as not to label them as belonging to any religion, Hindu, Sikh or Muslim, lest they become embroiled in the now bloody conflict. Bharati spins her own cotton, weaves her own cloth. She’s still dedicated to Ghandi and his way of life. Gandhi is busy so the couple must wait patiently for his blessing.
It’s a simple tale elegantly told with love and humor, and the subtle irony one expects from a Narayan story. So much so that the unanticipated ending leaves the reader with a terrible chill.
Narayan is such a beautiful writer. Fortunately he was prolific and his books can be read time over time. They are indeed treasures. Read any you can get your hands on.… (mer)