R.K. Narayan

First Online: March 01,2007
Page Last Updated: December 21,2007

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, or R.K. Narayan as he is popularly known, is perhaps the most widely read Indian novelists writing in English language.

R.K. Narayan (1906 -2001) was a great storyteller, whose sensitive and graphic portrayals of twentieth-century Indian life were set mostly in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. Most of Narayan's work, starting with his first novel Swami and Friends (1935), captures many Indian ethos while having a unique identity of its own. His "Indian Epics Retold" re-narrates the magnificence of Indian mythologies such as Mahabharat and Ramayan.

R.K. Narayan Picture Album

K.L. Kamat/Kamat's Potpourri

R.K. Narayan is one of the foremost Indian writers
Portrait hand-colored by K.L.Kamat

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Narayan in Mysore Studios, 1986
From Left to Right: R.K.Narayan, U.R. Ananthamurthy, and Jyotsna Kamat

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Dr. R. K. Narayan. Well-known English writer

See Also:

• Cartoonist R.K. Laxman