R k Narayan bibliography
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Novels1935Â Swami and Friends 1937 The Bachelor of Arts. 1938 The Dark Room 1945 The English Teacher 1949 Mr. Sampath -The Printer of Malgudi 1952 The Financial Expert 1955 Waiting for the Mahatma 1958 The Guide 1962 The Man-Eater of Malgudi 1967 The Vendor of Sweets 1976 The Painter of Signs 1983 A Tiger for Malgudi 1986 Talkative Man 1990 The World of Nagaraj 1993 The Grandmother's Tale: Three Novellas
Autobiography1974 My Days: A Memoir 1964 My Dateless Diary: An American Journey
Short Story Collections1943 Malgudi Days 1943Â Dodu and Other Stories 1945 Cyclone and Other Stories 1947 An Astrologer's Day and Other Stories 1956 Lawley Road and Other Stories 1970 A Horse and Two Goats 1982 Malgudi Days 1985 Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories
Collections of Stories, Essays and Sketches1956 Next Sunday: Sketches and Essays 1974 Reluctant Guru 1988 A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988 1989 A Story-Teller's World 1993 Salt and Sawdust: Stories and Table Talk
Travelogues1939Â Mysore, Government of Mysore, Mysore, 1939 1977 The Emerald Route (With Sketches by R.K Laxman)
Retellings of Epics and Folklore1964 Gods, Demons and Others (with decorations by R.K Laxman) 1972 The Ramayana 1978 The Mahabharata 1995 The lndian Epics Retold (the above three books in an omnibus edition, with Sketches by R.K Laxman and Introduction by S. Krishnan), a Penguin India Tenth Anniversary Commemorative Edition, Viking, New Delhi, 1995.
Selections1992 Malgudi Landscapes: The Best of R.K Narayan
Journal edited and published by R.K. Narayan1941 Indian Thought, Vol.1, No.1, April-May-June. 1941 Indian Thought, Vol. 1, No. 2, July-August-September. 1941 Indian Thought, Vol.1, No.3, October-November-December.
Uncollected ContributionsUncollected writings, including articles, reviews, skits and a one-act play titled Everest, published from 1932 in various publications including Indian Review, The Merry Magazine, The Madras Mail,Punch, The Hindu, The Times of lndia and The Illustrated Weekly.
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Rasipuram Krishnaswami Ayyar Narayanaswami, or R. K. Narayan, is one of the most celebrated Indian novelists writing in English. This master storyteller was born on October 10, 1906 in Madras or present day Chennai.
Most of his stories were set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. His works captured the essence of ordinary life. His first novel 'Swami and Friends' was published in 1935. Besides novels, he wrote short stories, travelogues, condensed versions of Indian epics in English and his memoir.
Born to a schoolteacher father, he took the name R. K. Narayan at the suggestion of his close friend and another great author, Graham Greene. He learnt Tamil and English in school. He did his initial studies at the residence of his grandmother and eventually moved to Mysore with his parents, when his father got appointed as headmaster of the Maharaja's High School in Mysore.
R. K. Narayan earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Mysore and went to the United States in 1956 at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation. His literary career began with his short stories, which appeared in 'The Hindu' newspaper. He began to work as the Mysore correspondent of 'Justice', a Madras-based newspaper. When he could not get his first novel 'Swami and Friends' published, a mutual friend showed the draft to Graham Greene who agreed to arrange for its publication.
He won numerous awards and adulation during his lifetime. These include the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1958, the Padma Bhushan in 1964, the AC Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature in 1980, besides the Padma Vibhushan in 2000. He was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1989. This great storyteller passed away on May 13, 2001 at the age of 94. Narayan played an exceptional role in making India accessible to the outside world through literature