R.K. Narayan

R.K. Narayan

• Born: 10 October 1906, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• Dead: 13 May 2001, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. 
• R. K. Narayan is among the best known and most widely read Indian novelists writing in English.
• 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, India's highest literary honor.  
• In 1980 he was awarded the A.C. Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature and in 1982.
• He was made an Honorary Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
• He wrote fourteen novels, five volumes of short stories, a number of travelogues and collections of non-fiction, condensed versions of Indian epics in English, and the memoir My Days. 
• He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature multiple times but has not yet won the honor.