Write a essay(fact file) about R.K narayanan .Word limited 500.
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R.K. Narayan regarded as one of the “Big three” among the Indian novelists in English has been admired for his remarkable gift for telling stories, portraying memorable people of small oddities and eccentricities, and for his humour. To tell a story engagingly is no mean gift for a novelist.
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Narayan’s fiction rarely addresses political issues or high philosophy. He writes with grace and humor, about a fictional town Malgudi and its inhabitants; and their little lives. Narayan is a classic teller of tales; an enduring appeal springs from his canvas where common men and women of all times and places are joined in their commonalty.
Narayan had an extensive writing career marked with a rich literary output:
Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Iyer Narayanaswamy stood shortened to R.K. Narayan, on Graham Greene’s advice. Narayan lived till ninety-five, writing for more than fifty years, and publishing till he was eighty seven. He wrote fifteen novels, five volumes of short stories, a number of travelogues and collection of non-fiction, English translation of Indian epics, and the memoirs “My Days”. Yet it is neither the copiousness of output, nor currency of content or the lack of either that gives Narayan his place among the finest story-tellers of modern English.
Narayan commanded a wide readership across the English reading people:
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Narayan weaved a world existing nowhere, but striking a chord of perfect reality with readers across the English reading peoples. His books appeal in a quiet, reassuring way and have a remained popular over many decades. His writing is also part of literature coursework in some American universities. Narayan evokes a unique diction of unusual freshness and rare ingenuity with the English literary idiom.
Narayan’s Birth and Parentage:
R.K. Narayan was born at the beginning of the twentieth century, on October 10, 1906 at Rasipuram the ancestral village in the district of Salem in southern India. He belonged to the middle-class Tamil Saivite Brahmin family of Madras. The initial ‘R’ stands for Rasipuram which must have been the native village of his ancestors. Narayan’s family and relations were urbanized at the time of his birth. ‘K’ stands for the name of his father Krishnaswami Iyer. The full name of ‘Narayan’ is Narayanaswami.
He is named after his paternal grandfather ‘Narayanaswami’ who served as a tahsildar in the old Madras Presidency. R.K. Narayan has shortened his full name ‘Narayanaswami’ to ‘Narayan’ in 1935 for the promotion of his literary pursuits at the suggestion Graham Greene, his literary mentor. Soon after his birth, his father, Krishnaswami Iyer got a job as a school teacher in Mysore, and the family moved there. His mother Ganambal took his brothers and sisters to Mysore with their parents, Narayan himself was left behind with his grandmother whom he called Ammani. Narayan’s first novel, Swami and Friends, published in 1935, records his urchin days at Ammani’s.
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