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R.K. Narayan

Born

in Chennai, India

October 10, 1906

Died

May 13, 2001

Genre

Fiction, Memoir, Humor

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R. K. Narayan is among the best known and most widely read Indian novelists who wrote 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 memoi ...more

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	Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan, Jhumpa Lahiri (Introduction) 4.21 avg rating — 18,982 ratings — published 1943 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swami and Friends 4.22 avg rating — 13,556 ratings — published 1935 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic by R.K. Narayan (Translator), Pankaj Mishra (Introduction), John Lee (Narrator), Vālmīki 4.07 avg rating — 13,066 ratings — published 1957 — 386 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Guide by R.K. Narayan, Michael Gorra (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 10,830 ratings — published 1958 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The English Teacher 3.82 avg rating — 4,604 ratings — published 1945 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man-Eater of Malgudi 3.84 avg rating — 3,421 ratings — published 1961 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bachelor of Arts 3.85 avg rating — 3,219 ratings — published 1937 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vendor of Sweets 3.75 avg rating — 2,874 ratings — published 1967 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Painter of Signs by R.K. Narayan, Monica Ali (Introduction) 3.65 avg rating — 2,579 ratings — published 1976 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tiger for Malgudi 3.90 avg rating — 1,953 ratings — published 1983 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

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“You become [a] writer by writing. It is a yoga.”
― R. K. Narayan

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“The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass. ”
― R. K. Narayan

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