R.K. Narayan

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born

October 10, 1906 in Chennai, India

died

May 13, 2001

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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R. K. Narayan is among the best known and most widely read Indian novelists writing in English.

R.K. Narayan was born in Madras, South India, in 1906, and educated there and at Maharaja's College in Mysore. His first novel, Swami and Friends and its successor, The Bachelor of Arts, are both set in the enchanting fictional territory of Malgudi and are only two out of the twelve novels he based there. In 1958 Narayan's work The Guide won him the National Prize of the Indian Literary Academy, his country's highest literary honor.

In addition to his novels, Narayan has authored five collections of short stories, including A Horse and Two Goats, Malguidi Days, and Under the Banyan Tree, two travel books, two volumes of essays, a volume of memoirs...more

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Average rating: 3.90 · 10134 ratings · 694 reviews · 66 distinct works

	Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan, Jhumpa Lahiri (Introduction) 417 avg rating — 1720 ratings — published 1942 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Swami and Friends 418 avg rating — 1193 ratings — published 1939 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Guide by R.K. Narayan, Michael Gorra (Introduction) 380 avg rating — 1119 ratings — published 1958 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic by R.K. Narayan, Pankaj Mishra (Introduction) 377 avg rating — 1007 ratings — published 1972 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The English Teacher 369 avg rating — 542 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Man-Eater of Malgudi 367 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 1961 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Bachelor of Arts 375 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 1937 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Painter of Signs by R.K. Narayan, Monica Ali (Introduction) 366 avg rating — 418 ratings — published 1976 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Vendor of Sweets 370 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1967 — 10 editions	My rating:
	A Tiger for Malgudi 375 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	My rating:

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“life is about maiking right things and going on..”
― R.K. Narayan, Malgudi Days

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“I came in several times and spoke, but perhaps you were asleep when I thought you were awake.'
'You are very considerate to explain it this way,' Sugreeva said, 'but I was drunk”
― R.K. Narayan, The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

tags: drunk , funny , ramayana

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“Seorang perempuan yang sifatnya jahat tidak pantas diperlakukan sebagai seorang perempuan. [Ramayana Mahabharata, hal. 33]”
― R.K. Narayan

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