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AWARDS AND HONOURS:
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001)[1] was an Indian writer known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.

The fictional town of Malgudi was first introduced in Swami and Friends.

The Financial Expert was hailed as one of the most original works of 1951 and Sahitya Academy Award winner The Guide was adapted for the film (winning a Filmfare Award for Best Film) and for Broadway.

Narayan highlights the social context and everyday life of his characters.

He has been compared to William Faulkner who created a similar fictional town and likewise explored with humor and compassion the energy of ordinary life.

LIFE AND CAREER:

R. K. Narayan was born in a Tamil Brahmin family[4] on 10 October 1906 in Madras (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu), British India into a Hindu family.[5] He was one of eight children; six sons and two daughters.

After completing high school, Narayan failed the university entrance examination and spent a year at home reading and writing; he subsequently passed the examination in 1926 and joined Maharaja College of Mysore.

It took Narayan four years to obtain his bachelor's degree, a year longer than usual.

Greene recommended the book to his publisher, and it was finally published in 1935.[1] Greene also counselled Narayan on shortening his name to become more familiar to the English-speaking audience.[25] The book was semi-autobiographical and built upon many incidents from his own childhood.[26] Reviews were favourable but sales were few.

In 1937, Narayan's father died, and Narayan was forced to accept a commission from the government of Mysore as he was not making any money.[30] In his first three books, Narayan highlights the problems with certain socially accepted practices.

The first book has Narayan focusing on the plight of students, punishments of caning in the classroom, and the associated shame.

THE BUSY YEARS:

After The English Teacher, Narayan's writings took a more imaginative and creative external style compared to the semi-autobiographical tone of the earlier novels.

His next effort was the first book exhibiting this modified approach.

He spent three weeks in Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne giving lectures on Indian literature.

Like many of his other works, this book was illustrated by his younger brother R. K. Laxman.

In an earlier essay, he had written about the Americans wanting to understand spirituality from him, and during this visit, Swedish-American actress Greta Garbo accosted him on the topic, despite his denial of any knowledge.[1] Narayan's next published work was the 1967 novel, The Vendor of Sweets.

The Mahabharata was published in 1978.[58]

THE LATER YEARS:

Narayan was commissioned by the government of Karnataka to write a book to promote tourism in the state.

The book is an autobiographical novella, about his great-grandmother who travelled far and wide to find her husband, who ran away shortly after their marriage.

The story was narrated to him by his grandmother, when he was a child.[73] During his final years, Narayan, ever fond of conversation, would spend almost every evening with N. Ram, the publisher of The Hindu, drinking coffee and talking about various topics until well past midnight.[74] Despite his fondness of meeting and talking to people, he stopped giving interviews.

As he was always very selective about his choice of notebooks, he asked N. Ram to get him one.

He died on 13 May 2001, in Chennai at the age of 94.[14][75]

WRITING STYLE:

She adds that Narayan provides the reader something novelists struggle to achieve in hundreds more pages: a complete insight to the lives of his character between the title sentence and the ends.

These characteristics and abilities led Lahiri to classify him as belonging to the pantheon of short-story geniuses that include O. Henry, Frank O'Connor and Flannery O'Connor.

AWARDS AND HONOURS:

Narayan won numerous awards during the course of his literary career.[107] He won his first major award, in 1960, the Sahitya Akademi Award for The Guide.[48] When the book was made into a film, he received the Filmfare Award for the best story.

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