indian legendary writers

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R. K NARAYAN{10 OCTOBER 1906 – 13 MAY 2001}

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R. K NARAYAN

BORN CHENNAI, TAMILNADU

OCCUPATION WRITER

GENRE FICTION,MYTHOLOGY,NON-FICTION

NOTABLE AWARDS PADMA BHUSHAN ,SAHITYA ACADEMY AWARD, AC BENSON MEDAL

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R. K NARAYAN

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, an indian english writer was one of the leading figures of the Indian literature in english.

He was awarded the sahitya academy award for the book The Guide ,which was adapted for film and for broadway.

His first four works include :• THE BACHELOR OF ARTS • SWAMI AND FRIENDS• THE FINANCIAL EXPERT• THE ENGLISH TEACHER

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Born in madras presidency ,British India.

His father was a headmaster.

His youngest brother R.K Laxman,was a famous Indian cartoonist ,illustrator and humorist.

FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD

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His first published work was a book review of Development of Maritime Laws of 17th-Century England.

In 1930, Narayan wrote his first novel, Swami and Friends.

Narayan became a reporter for a Madras based paper called The Justice, dedicated to the rights of non-Brahmins.

His first collection of short stories, Malgudi days, was published in November 1942, followed by The English Teacher in 1945.

LITERARY WORKS

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His first major award was in 1958, the Sahitya Akademi Awardfor The Guide.

In 1964, he received the Padma Bushan during the Republic day honours .

In 1980, he was awarded the AC Benson Award by the Royal Society Of British (British).

In 1982 he was elected an honorary member of the American Academy Of Arts And Letters.

 He was nominated for the Nobel Prize In Literature .

AWARDS AND HONOURS

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AWARDS AND HONOURS

 Honorary doctorates by the University of Leeds (1967), the University Of Mysore (1976) and Delhi University (1973).

Narayan was nominated to the upper house of the India Parliament for a six-year term starting in 1989.

  In 2001, he was awarded India's second-highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibushan.

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Novels• Swami and Friends (1935)

• The Dark Room (1938)

• The English Teacher (1945)

• Mr. Sampath (1948)

• The Financial Expert (1952)

• Waiting for the Mahatma (1955)

LIST OF WORKS

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LIST OF WORKS

• The Guide (1958)

• The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961)

• The Vendor of Sweets (1967)

• The Painter of Signs (1977)

• A Tiger for Malgudi (1983)

• Talkative Man (1986)

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Novels

LIST OF WORKS

Non-fiction

• Next Sunday (1960)

• My Dateless Diary (1960)

• My Days (1974)

• Reluctant Guru (1974)

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LIST OF WORKS Short story collections

• Malgudi Days (1942)

• An Astrologer's Day and Other Stories (1947)

• Lawley Road and Other Stories (1956)

• A Horse and Two Goats (1970)

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R. K NARAYAN QUOTES

RABINDRANATH TAGORE{7TH MAY1861- 7TH AUGUST1941}

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RABINDRANATH TAGORE

BORN CALCUTTA, BENGAL PRESIDENCY,

BRITISH INDIA

OCCUPATION POET, SHORT STORY WRITER,

NOVELIST,SONG COMPOSER,

PLAYWRITER,ESSAYIST,PAINTER

NOTABLE WORKS GITANJALI ,GORA,AMAR SHONA BANGLA,

RABINDRA SANGEET ,JANA GANA MANA

NOTABLE AWARDS NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE,1933

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FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengalipolymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

Tagore's major plays are:• Raja (1910)• Dakghar (1912)•  Achalayatan (1912) •  Muktadhara (1922)  • Raktakaravi (1926)

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FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD

Born in Culcutta,Bengal Presidency,British India.

He was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj.

He was educated at home and completed his formal schooling at England.

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LITERARY WORKS

His major poems are Manasi (1890), Sonar Tari (1894), Gitanjali (1910) ,Gitimalya (1914), and Balaka (1916). 

The English renderings of his poetry, which include The Gardener (1913), Fruit-Gathering (1916), and The Fugitive (1921)

 He is the author a many novels, like Gora (1910), Ghare-Baire  (1916) ,and Yogayog (1929).

Tagore's major plays are Raja (1910),Dakghar(1912), Achalayatan(1912),  Muktadhara (1922) and  Raktakaravi (1926).

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LITERARY WORKS Rabindranath Tagore was the co-founder of Dartington Hall

School in Japan.

On 7th May 1961a Stamp released in the name of Rabindranath Tagore.

Rabindranath Tagore won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

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LIST OF WORKS

Poetry• Bhānusiṃha Ṭhākurer Paḍāvalī (1884)1884)

• Manasi (1890)1890)

• Sonar Tari (1894)1894)

• Gitanjali (1910 )1910 )

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LIST OF WORKS

National AnthemNational Anthem

• Jana Gana Mana(India)Jana Gana Mana(India)

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LIST OF WORKS

Novels and Short Stories

• Sacrifice (1927)

• Milan (1947)

• Kabuliwala (1961)

• Uphaar (1971)

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LIST OF WORKS

Dramas• Valmiki-Pratibha1881

• Visarjan1890

• Raja1910

• DakGhar1912

• Achalayatan1912

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“The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long.

I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet.

It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.

The traveller has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said 'Here art thou!'

The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!‘”

— Song XII, Gitanjali, 1913.

Amar e gan chheŗechhe tar shôkol ôlongkarTomar kachhe rakhe ni ar shajer ôhongkarÔlongkar je majhe pôŗe milônete aŗal kôre,

Tomar kôtha đhake je tar mukhôro jhôngkar.Tomar kachhe khaţe na mor kobir gôrbo kôra,

Môhakobi, tomar paee dite chai je dhôra.Jibon loe jôton kori jodi shôrol bãshi goŗi,Apon shure dibe bhori sôkol chhidro tar.

-Song VII of Gitanjali

FEW VERSES FROM HIS WORKS

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VIKRAM SETH {Born on June 20, 1952 }

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BORN 20 JUNE 1952 (AGE 62)KOLKATA, INDIA

OCCUPATION NOVELIST, POET

GENRE NOVELS, POETRY, LIBRETTO, TRAVEL WRITING, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

NOTABLE AWARDS A SUITABLE BOYTHE GOLDEN GATEAN EQUAL MUSICA SUITABLE GIRL

VIKRAM SETH

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Vikram Seth (born on 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has received several awards including Padma Shri, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as "Mappings" and "Beastly tales", are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry Canon.

VIKRAM SETH

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FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD

Seth was born to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His family lived in many cities including the Bata Shoe Company town of Batanagar amal, Patna, near Danapur and London.

His father was an executive with the Bata India Limited shoe company who migrated to post-Partition India from West Punjab in Pakistan.

His mother, Leila was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court as well as the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court, at Simla.

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His younger brother, Shantum, leads Buddhist meditational tours.

His younger sister, Aradhana, is a film-maker married to an Austrian diplomat, and has worked on Deepa Mehta's movies Earth and Fire.

FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD

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Seth spent part of his youth in London but returned to his homeland in 1957.

After receiving primary and commencing secondary education at the Doon School in Dehradun in India, Seth returned to England to Tonbridge School. From there, Seth studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he developed an interest in poetry and learned Chinese.

After leaving Oxford, Seth moved to California to work on a graduate degree in economics at Stanford University.

FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD

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LITERARY WORKS

Travel writing: From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet

His travel book From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983) was his first popular success and won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. It offers insight to Seth as a person, who is candid about the reality and effect of living abroad — though not in particular of being in diaspora — a theme which arises in his poetry but nowhere in his fiction:

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• "Increasingly of late, and particularly when I drink, I find my thoughts drawn into the past rather than impelled into the future. I recall drinking sherry in California and dreaming of my earlier student days in England, where I ate dalmoth and dreamed of Delhi. What is the purpose, I wonder, of all this restlessness? I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias." (p.35)

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LITERARY WORKS

Poetry

Seth has published five volumes of poetry. His first, Mappings (1980), was originally privately published; it attracted little attention and indeed Philip Larkin, to whom he sent it for comment, referred to it scornfully among his intimates, though he offered Seth encouragement.

In 2009 Seth contributed four poems to Oxfam which are used as introductions to each of the four collections of UK stories which form Oxfam's 'Ox-Tales' book project.

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LITERARY WORKS

The "novel in verse": The Golden Gate (Hybrid)

The first of his novels, "The Golden Gate" (1986) is a novel in verse about the lives of a number of young professionals in San Francisco. The novel is written entirely in Onegin stanzas after the style Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. Seth had encountered Charles Johnston's 1977 translation of it in a Stanford second-hand bookstore and it changed the direction of his career, shifting his focus from academic to literary work. The novel contains a strong element of affectionate satire, as with his subsequent novel, A Suitable Boy.

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LITERARY WORKS

"The Golden Gate, an opera in two acts with music by Conrad Cummings and libretto from the novel-in-verse by Vikram Seth adapted by the composer" is currently (2010) in development by LivelyWorks and American Opera Projects and receives a staged workshop production at the Rose Studio at Lincoln Center in New York City in January 2010.

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LITERARY WORKS

LIST OF WORKS

Novels

• The Golden Gate (1986)

• A Suitable Boy (1993)

• An Equal Music (1999)

• A Suitable Girl (2013)

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Poetry

• Mappings (1980)

• The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985)

• All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990)

• Beastly Tales (1991)

• Three Chinese Poets (1992)

• The Frog and the Nightingale (1994)

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LIST OF WORKS

Children's book

• Beastly Tales (1991)

• Libretto

• Arion and the Dolphin (1994) for the English National Opera

• The Traveller [2008] with composer Alec Roth. Premiere, Lichfield Festival July 2008.

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LIST OF WORKS

Non-fiction

• From Heaven Lake (1983)

• Two Lives (2005)

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LIST OF WORKS

SUDHA MURTHY{Born on 19 August 1950}

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BORN Born on 19 August 1950 (AGE 63)

OCCUPATION Chairperson, Infosys Foundation

GENRE STORIES

NOTABLE AWARDS R.K. NARAYANA’S AWARD

BEST TEACHER AWARD

PADMA SHRI

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SUDHA MURTHY

SUDHA MURTHY

Sudha Murthy is an Indian social worker and author. She began her professional career as a computer scientist and engineer.

 She is the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation and a member of public health care initiatives of the Gates Foundation.

She has founded several orphanages, participated in rural development efforts.

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FAMILY AND CHILDHOOD

Sudha Murthy born in Shiggaon in northern Karnataka, India.

Her father was a famous surgeon Dr. R.H. Kulkarni.

Her childhood experiences were noted in her first notable work entitled How I Taught my Grandmother to Read & Other Stories.

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CAREER

Murthy completed a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the B.V.B. College of Engineering & Technology.

Murthy completed M.E. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science.

Murthy became the first female engineer hired at India's largest auto manufacturer TELCO.

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CAREER

She joined Walchand Group of Industries as a Senior Systems Analyst.

In 1996, started Infosys Foundation.

Written and published many books, two are travelogues, two technical books, six novels and three educative books.

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AWARDS AND HONOURS

Gold Medal from the Indian Institute of Engineers, India for having secured the I Rank in Mtech.

C S Desai Prize for standing first in the University Exams of Karnataka.

Award for Excellent Social Service by Rotary club

‘Karnataka Rajyotsava’ State Award for the year 2000.

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AWARDS AND HONOURS

• ‘Ojaswini’ award for excellent social worker for the year 2000.

• ‘Millenium Mahila Shiromani’ award.

• Woman of the Year by RadioCity [Bangalore FM station] [2002].

• In 2004, Murthy was presented with the Raja-Lakshmi Award.

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AWARDS AND HONOURS

In 2006, Murthy was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest-ranking civilian award from the Government of India.

In 2006, she also received the R.K. Narayana's Award for Literature.

In 2011, Murthy was conferred honorary LL.D (Doctor of Laws) degrees.

In 2013, Basava Shree-2013 Award was presented to Sudha Murthy for their contributions to society.

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• How I Taught My Grandmother To Read.

• The Old Man And His God

• Gently Falls The Bakula

• The Bird with Golden Wings: Stories of Wit and Magic

• Dollar Bahu

• Wise & Otherwise

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LIST OF WORKS

LIST OF WORKS

• Punyabhumi Bharat

• Mahashweta

• The Old Man and His God: Discovering the Spirit of India

• The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk

• Grandma's Bag Of Stories

• House of Cards

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DHUMAKETU{12 December1895-1965}

DHUMAKETU

born December12 ,1895Virpur in gujarat

Occupation Short story writer ,playwright ,novelist

Genre Dramatic style, romantisicm ,travelogue

Notable works Ranjitram Suvarnam Chandrak,Narmad suvarna C handrak,Adviser to Sahitya academy award

DHUMAKETU

Gaurishankar Govardhandas Joshi,is known by his pen name Dhumaketu.

A prolific writer, who is considered one of the pioneers of the Gujarati short story.

He published twenty-four collections of short stories,as well as thirty-two novels on social and historical subjects, and plays and travelogues.His writing is characterized by a dramatic style, romanticismand powerful depiction of human emotions

CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY

• He was born on 12 December 1892 at Virpur in Gujarat State.

• Developed interest in reading,literature and in biographies.

• Graduated in sanskrit and english at 1920.

• He served as a clerk at in railway.In 1923, he became a teacher.

LITERARY WORKS

. A collection of his short stories 'TANKHA' was first published in 1926.

He became a pioneer in short stories.

His literary work inspired a new generation writers.

His writing is characterized by a poetic style, romanticism and powerful depiction of human emotions.

LITERARY WORKS

He wrote short stories, novels, drama, stories and books.

He published more than 250 books in the various fields

His story 'The Letter’ became popular in gujarati literature.

He published 'Contemporary Indian Short Stories , 'The Best Loved Indian Stories of The Century'1962.

LITERARY AWARDS

In 1935, he was awarded Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak, the highest award in Gujarati literature.

. He received Narmad Suvarna Chandrak for literary activities.

He served as an adviser to the Sahitya Academy.

He won the rare honour to represent India in a book published in the USA with the title 'Stories From Many Lands'.

DHUMAKETU

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