| 1906 | Oct 10, 1906 - RK Narayan was born in Madras, India on October 10, 1906. His father was a provincial head-master. He was the third of eight surviving children. His full name was Rasipuram Krishnaswami Ayyar Naranayanaswami. In South India, the given name(s) is/are usually ...RK Narayan was born in Madras, India on October 10, 1906. His father was a provincial head-master. He was the third of eight surviving children. His full name was Rasipuram Krishnaswami Ayyar Naranayanaswami. In South India, the given name(s) is/are usually written last. His first name is a toponym and his second name is a patronym. For this reason, all of Narayan's brothers have the same first two names. See, for example, RK Laxman. The writer became RK Narayan at the ...  Show more  Show lessen.allexperts.com/e/r/r/r._k._narayan.htm
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| 1935 | 1935 - RK Narayan began his writing career with Swami and Friends in 1935. Most of his work including Swami and friends is set in the fictional town of Malgudi which captures everything Indian while having a unique identity of its own. RK Narayan's writing style was ...RK Narayan began his writing career with Swami and Friends in 1935. Most of his work including Swami and friends is set in the fictional town of Malgudi which captures everything Indian while having a unique identity of its own. RK Narayan's writing style was marked by simplicity and subtle humour. He told stories of ordinary people trying to live their simple lives in a changing world. Show more Show lesswww.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/rk-narayan.html
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| 1958 | Mar 23, 1958 - The books of Narayan are written in a style as bland and cool as a plate of curd, but are somehow as zestful and satisfying aa helping of ... Narayan, a Madras/ now living in Mysore, a city of fine palaces and avenues, orne to Bangalore about eighty-six miles away to talk a little ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00613F63B5D1A7B93C1AB1788D85F4C8585F9
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| 1987 | Apr 20, 1987 - For those who have yet to discover the distinctive pleasures of Narayan's Malgudi, "Talkative Man" is not only a good introduction to the place ... It's a city that exists solely in the luxuriant imagination of RK Narayan, who in more than a dozen books has brought it to life as ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24601756.html?dids=24601756:24601756&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr...by...NARAYAN'S...
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| 2000 | Mar 24, 2000 - S FIRST great novelist in English, RK Narayan, died yesterday morning in Madras of heart failure at the age of 94. Born in Madras, Narayan did only moderately well at school, despite...mixture of "beauty and sadness", helped Narayan to find a British publisher and make a... ... www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5943511.html?refid=gnews_209
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| 2001 | May 14, 2001 - By BARBARA CROSSETTE. RK Narayan, the literary chronicler of small-town life in South India and one of the first Indians writing in English to achieve international acclaim, died yesterday in Madras, India. He was 94. Long before writers of the subcontinent broke free of the passions ... www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/books/r-k-narayan-india-s-prolific-storyteller-dies-at-94.html?pagewanted= all
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| 2002 | Jul 6, 2002 - WHEN I was in college in the early 1940s, I used to spend my leisure hours in the reading room of the College Union, enthusiastically lapping up Indian and foreign newspapers and periodicals. I had already started contributing to The Illustrated Weekly of India. ... www.thehindu.com/fline/fl1914/19140670.htm
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| 2004 | Jul 26, 2004 - An aide comes to his rescue: "There is a photo of Mr. RK Narayan in the Correspondent's Room. You must see it at once." I follow him, hoping it is a rare early ... To make his name more user-friendly for an English-language audience, the author's name was truncated to RK Narayan. ... www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1090820,00.html
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| 2005 | Apr 28, 2005 - CHENNAI: In what is an avid fan's perfect tribute to his favourite author and musician, an artist with an advertising agency in Bangalore, has put together a compendium of print and web articles on RK Narayan and MS Subbulakshmi. The hardbound scrapbook on RK Narayan, ... www.hindu.com/lf/2005/04/28/stories/2005042810810200.htm
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| 2006 | Oct 11, 2006 - MYSORE: Scholars, novelists and academicians regaled by the magic of Malgudi paid tributes to its creator RKNarayan at an international seminar that started here on Tuesday to mark his birth centenary. The fictitious south Indian town created by the master story teller of our times and ... www.thehindu.com/2006/10/11/stories/2006101109751300.htm
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