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R.K. Narayan.(Obituary)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 5/26/2001; 700+ words
; LIKE many young writers, R.K. Narayan found it difficult at first to...seeking to understand India, R.K. Narayan is more accessible than Salman...homework they had no time to play. R.K. Narayan never made the big money that...
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R. K. Narayan.(biography and works)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Bookmarks; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...in English in the 20th century, R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) captured the subtle...and limited worldviews. Although Narayan depicted poverty and suffering...Narayanaswami (he took the name R. K. Narayan at the suggestion of Graham Greene...
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Obituary: R. K. Narayan
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/14/2001; ; 700+ words
; R. K. NARAYAN was India's greatest English-language novelist. To Graham Greene, Narayan's friend for more than half a century...what it is like to be Indian." It was Narayan's unique achievement, in a series of...
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Novelist R. K. Narayan Dies, 94
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/13/2001; ; 454 words
; ...Associated Press Writer AP Online 05-13-2001 Novelist R. K. Narayan Dies, 94 NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- R.K. Narayan, a novelist who depicted life in India with grace and...
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Tale spinner ; Rooted in everyday life, R.K. Narayan';s simple tragi-comedies set in the realistic small town world of the imaginary Malgudi were the first Indian stories to make a mark in English literature.
Newspaper article from: India Today; 4/21/2008; ; 700+ words
; R.K. NARAYAN WRITER, 1906-2001 Present...storyteller Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan. Born in Madras in 1906...to the famous cartoonist R.K. Laxman. Sent as an infant...did he shorten his name to R.K. Narayan?A: In 1935, on Graham...
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Canadian literary circle remembers novelist R K Narayan.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 11/9/2006; 550 words
; ...literary circle remembers novelist R K Narayan Toronto, Nov 9 (PTI) Recalling...here have paid rich tributes to R K Narayan on his 100th birth anniversary...Malgudi but not Malgudi out of Narayan." "R K Narayan was a phenomenon as he...
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R K Narayan, chronicler of India's beauty and sadness, dies aged 94
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/14/2001; ; 596 words
; ...wrote: "The virtues of R K Narayan are Indian failings magically...society ... the India of Narayan's novels is not the India...Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan wrote 34 novels in all...survived by a brother, R K Laxman, the Times of India...
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Indian writer R.K. Narayan dies at 94
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/15/2001; ; 455 words
; NEW DELHI, India R.K. Narayan, a novelist who depicted...Vajpayee said Sunday. Mr. Narayan was a fellow of the Royal...brother, the cartoonist R.K. Laxman, and two grandchildren...daughter died earlier. Narayan's body was cremated...
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R.K. NARAYAN IS ONE OF MY GREATEST INSPIRATIONS: SCOTTISH AUTHOR
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 1/30/2009; 618 words
; ...to noted Indian writer R.K. Narayan, whose works inspired...and even in India read Narayan nowadays. It hurts me...old remarked. Apart from Narayan, Smith is all praise for British author J.K. Rowling. "Rowling has...
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R. K. Narayan: An Anthology of Recent Criticism. (Noted).(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/2001; ; 630 words
; R. K. Narayan: An Anthology of Recent Criticism C. N. Srinath, ed. Delhi. Pencraft...pages. Rs350. ISBN 81-85753-38-5 THE EDITOR PROPOSES that in R. K. Narayan's fiction "there is no trace of intellectuality," and that in taking...
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R. K. Narayan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
R. K. Narayan R. K. Narayan (born 1906) is one of the best-known of the Indo-English writers. He created the imaginary town of Malgudi, where realistic characters in a typically Indian setting lived amid unpredictable events. Rasipuram...
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Narayan, R(asipuram) K(rishnaswamy)
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...University. Critical Studies: R.K. Narayan: A Critical Study of His Works...New Delhi, Young Asia, 1969; R.K. Narayan, London, Longman, 1971, and R.K. Narayan: A Critical Appreciation, London...
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Narayan, R. K.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Narayan, R. K. ( Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan ) (1906–2001), Indian novelist writing in English...his characters to those of Chekhov's , and commented that Narayan's particular comic gift flourished in ‘the strong...
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Markandaya, Kamala
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...Genre and Ideology in R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala...Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Balachandran Rajan...A.V. Krishna Rao and K. Madhavi Menon, Delhi, B.R. Publishing Corporation...
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Desai, Anita
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...English Novel: Genre and Ideology in R.K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya...the Novels of Anita Desai by N. R. Gopal. New Delhi, Atlantic Publishers...Novelists: Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R. K. Narayan, Balachandran Rajan, Kamala Markandaya...
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