Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan (October 10, 1906 - May 13, 2001) was an Indian novelist writing in English, whose sensitive, well-drawn portrayals of twentieth-century Indian life were set mostly in the invented South Indian town of Malgudi.

He experienced his early schooling within Madras, but moved to Mysore when his father was appointed Head Master of the Maharajah's high there, & had his bachelor's degree from the University of Mysore (Incidentally, he failed in only one subject and that was English). Virtually all of his operate, starting from either his 1st novel Swami & friends (1935) is placed in the made-up town of Malgudi which at the equivalent period captures all about Indian when getting the unique identity of its have.

One of a couple of Indian-English writers spending 100% his period around India, he went overseas to the United States in 1956 at the invitation of the Rockfeller Foundation. He began his literary career sustaining short stories which appeared in The Hindu, and besides worked for a bit of period when a Mysore correspondent of Justice, the Madras-depending newspaper.

His novels come characterized by Chekhovian simplicity and gentle humour. Characters around his novels tend to exist as super down-to-earthy. His writing career began by using Swami and Friends. At a start, he may not become the novel published. Yet, a draft was shown to Graham Greene by a reciprocal friend, Purna. Greene liked it such that he intended for its publication. Greene was to remain the close friend & admirer of his. When that, he published the continuous stream of novels, whole placed inside Malgudi & for each one treating by owning different characters in this fabricated place. Autobiographical content forms the important section of occasionally of his novels. E.g., a cases surrounding a dying of his immature married woman you bet he coped sustaining a loss form a basis of The English Teacher.

Numerous of Narayan's works come rooted inside everyday life, though he is non shy of invoking Hindu tales or traditional Indian folklore to emphasize the point. His real life-running outlook in life has occasionally been criticized, though generally he is take for an accomplished, sensitive & reasonably prolific writer.

Names of his major works (around chronological sequentially) :

Swami and Friends, 1935 Bachelor of Arts, 1937 The Dark Room, 1938 The English Teacher, 1945 An Astrologer's Day and Other Stories, 1947 Mr. Sampath - The Printer of Malgudi, 1949 The Financial Expert, 1952 Grateful to Life and Death, 1953 Waiting for the Mahatma, 1955 Lawley Road and Other Stories, 1956 The Guide, 1958, made into the Hindi movie by Dev Anand Next Sunday : sketches and essays, 1960 The Man-Eater of Malgudi, 1961 My Dateless Diary, 1964 Gods, Demons, and Other Stories, 1965 The Vendor of Sweets, 1967 A Horse and two Goats, and Other stories, 1970 The Ramayana; a shortened modern prose version, 1972 My Days, 1974 The Painter of Signs, 1976 Reluctant Guru, 1974 The Mahabharata: a shortened modern prose version, 1978 The Emerald Route, 1980 Malgudi Days, 1982 A Tiger for Malgudi, 1983 Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories, 1985 The Talkative Man, 1986 A Story-Teller's World: Stories, Essays, Sketches, 1989 The World of Nagaraj, 1990 Salt and Sawdust

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