A.K. Ramanujan: author, translator, scholar. (Indian Literatures: In the Fifth Decade of Independence)

World Literature Today | March 22, 1994| | Copyright

Over a period of about forty years A. K. Ramanujan pursued three distinct but simultaneous careers, each of which was sufficiently productive, successful, and unique to seem like a full-time occupation. His primary vocation was that of a bilingual poet and intermittent fiction writer in English and Kannada, the languages in which he published six books of poetry and one of prose in his lifetime. Of these, The Striders (1966), Relations (1971), Selected Poems (1976), and Second Sight (1985) established him as perhaps the most consistent and memorable poet in the history of ...

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