R. K. Narayan

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanaswami, known as R. K. Narayan, was born in Madras on 10 October 1906 and was partly raised by his grandmother. A graduate of Maharaja's College in Mysore in 1930, he chose to write in English; Graham Greene had his first book published in London in 1935 and remained his supporter in England. He set most of his novels and stories in a town he had invented, founded his own publishing house in Mysore, received the Padma Vibhushan in 2000 and died in Madras on 13 May 2001.

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• NovelThe GuideR. K. Narayan · 1958Literature