ACADEMY

R.K. Narayan
1906-2001
* R.K Narayan Wrote 15 Novels.
* He also got Padama Bhusan in 1964.
* He got filmfare award for best. story in 1960 for
the Guide.
* He was contemporary of Mulk Raj Anand and
Raja Rao.
* His fictional Town name is Malgudi.
* His full Name is Rashi Puram Krishna Swami
Iyer, Narayan Swami.
* His first novel is swami and friends (1935).
*His famous works & novels :

1) The Bachelor of Arts (1937).

2) The Dark Room (1938).

3) The English Teacher (1945).

4) The finacial expert (1952).

5) Mr Sampath - the printer of Malgudi (1949).

6) The financial expert (1952)..

7) Waiting for the Mahatma (1955).

8) The Guide (1958).

9) The Man eater of Malgudi (1961).

10) Reluctant Guru (1974).

11) Writer’s Night- mare (-Essay) (1988).

12) The Vendor of sweets (1967).

13) The Ramayana (1972).

14) The world of Nagraj (1990).
15) God’s, Demons and others (1964) - Short
story.
16) Grand mothers tales (1992) - novella.

* His famous story

1) A Horse and Two Goats (1970) .
2) Malgudi Days (1943).
3) An Astrologer’s day (1947).
4) Under the Bunyan Tree (1985).
*His Non-fictional story

1) My days (1972).
2) Next Sunday (1960).
3) mysore (1939).
4) Mу dateless diary (1960) -autobiograpghy.
5) The writing life (2001).
* He got Sahitya Academy Award 1960
for the The Guide.
 MULK RAJ ANAND
1905-2004
* He was born in 1905 in Peshawar.

* He got Sahitya Academy Award in 1971 - Morning

face Award(1968).

* He Got Padama Bhusan Award in 1968

*He got international Peace Prize in 1953.

* His first Novel is “Untouchable” (1935).

* His famous work :

1) Untouchable (1935).

2) Coolie (1936).

3) Two Leaves and Bud (1937).

4) The village (1938).

5) Lament on the death of the master of arts (1539).

6) Across the black Water (1939).

7) The Sword and sickle (1542) - title given by Orwell.

8) The big heart (1945).

9) Seven Summer (1951) - fictional autobiograghy.
10) The Private life of and Indian Prince (1953).

11) The Road (1961).

12) The Morning face (1968).

13) Death of Hero (1964).

14) Confession of lover (1976).

15) Gouri (1971).

16) Nine Moods of Bharat (1998).

> Nobel of pilgrimage :

“Reflection of White elephant.
His famous story :
1) The Lost child. (1934).

2) The Barber Trade union.

3) The Power of darkness (1959).

4) The Lajbant (1964).

5) The Gold watch.

 RAJA RAO
1908-2006

1) He also got Padama Bhusan (2007).

2) He also got Sahitya Academy Award (1964).

3) He also got Padama Bhusan Award (1969) and

Neustadt international Prize for Literature.

* His famous work :

1) Kantha Pura (1968).

2) The Servant and the Rope (1960) - SAA Winner.

3) The Cat and Shakespeare(1965).

4) The Meaning of India (1996).

5) The Chess master (1988).

6) The Comrade Kirillov (1976).

7) On the Ganga Ghat (1989).

 ANITA DESAI
1937
His works :
1) Cry, the peacock (1963) - Sahitya Academy Award.

2) In custody (1984) - selected for Booker Prize.

3) Fire on the Mountain (1977).

4) Voices in the city (1965).

5) Bye Bye black Bird (1977).

6) A village by the sea (1982) - Guardian Prize in

1983.

→ She received Sahitya Academy Award 1978.

→ She got Padama Bhusan in 2014.

→ She got Sahitya Academy fello ship - 2007.

→ Games at Twilight (1978).

→ Scholar and Gypsy (1996).

 Jhumpa Lahiri
1967
* His works :

1) The Namesake (2003).

2) The Lowland (2013).

3) Un accustumed Earth (2008).

4) She got Tulitzer Prize in 2000.

5) She got Ohenry in 1999.

KAMALA MARKANDYA
(1924-2004)
> Poetess - birth place - “Mysore”
His Works :
1) Nectar in a sieve (1954).

2) A Handful of rice (1966).

3) A silence of desire (1960).
4) The nowhere the Man (1972).
5) Some inner fury (1955).

6) The Possession (1963)

7) The Golden Honey Comb (1977).

8) Pleasure City (1982).

9) Bombay Tiger (1980).

> She shows the Socio-Cultured life in her work.

 KHUSHBANT SINGH
1915-2004
* His works :
1) Train to Pakistan (manomajra) (1956)
2) History of Sikhs (1953)

3) I shall not hear the Nightingale

4) The Tragedy of Punjab (1984).

5) Delhi on Novel (1990)

6) Ghadar (1915).

7) The company of Woman (1999)

8) India; and introduction.

9) Truth, love and A little Malice (2002)

- An Authobiography.
 V.S. NAIPAUL
1932-2018
> He won Booker Prize in 1971 for his Novel’ (In a
free state).

> He won the Jerusalum Prize in 1983 and 1989.

> He won Novel Prize 2001 for his Novel Half-life.

* HIS famous work :

1) A house of Mr. Visbas (1961).
2) An Area of darkness (1964).

3) A Turn in the south (1989).

4) India; A bounded civilization (1977).

5) In a free state - Booker Prize.

6) Half of life - Nobel Prize (2001).

7) A Bend in the river (1979).

8) Guerrillas (1975).

9) The Magic seeds (2004).

 VIKRAM SETH
1952
His work :
1) Suitable boy (1993).
2)The Golden Gate (1986).

3) Suitable Girl (2016).

4) From Heaven Lake (1983).

5)Two lives (2005).

6) An Equal Music (1999).

ARUN JOSHI
1939-1993
> He won Sahitya Acaderny Award (1982) for his
Novel The Last Labyrinth.

* His famous Nobels :

1) The foreigners (1968).
2) The strange case of Billy Biswas (1970).
3) The Apprantes (1974).

4) The Last Labyrinth (1981).

5) The City and the river (1990).

6) Shree Ram a biography with Khusbant singh

(1968).

RUSKIN BOND

> He won Padama Shree (1999).

> He won Sahitya Academy Award (1992).

> He won Padama Bhusan Award (2014).

* His famous works :
1) The blue umbrella

2) The Room on the Roof (1956

3) Cherry Tree (1980).

4) Social Time (2010)

5) The Night Train Deoli (1988).
6) Angry River (1972).

7) Golden years (2023).

8) Grand father private Zoo (1967).

9) The great train Journey (2018).

KAMLA DAS
1934-2009
> Birthplace - Madras.

> She was confessional Poetess.

> Confessional poet is auto-biographical.

> Robert Lowell is the father of confessional Poet
* Her famous Work :
1) The sirens (1964).
2) The summer in Calcutta (1965).

3) In Introduction (1965).

4) The Descendants (1967).

5) Old play house (1973).

6) Alphabet of Lust (1976).

7) My story- auto-biography
* A Doll for the child prostitute

* She won pen asian poetry Prize in (1963)

Kerala Sahitya Academy award in 1968 for Thanu-
pu.
* She was short listed for Novel Prize (1984).

* She won Kerala Sahitya Academy Awad (1985)

* Kerala State Film Award for this story (1988)

 NISSIM EZEKIEL
1924-2004
> “He was the father of Modern Indian English Poetry.

> He was honoured with the Padama Shree award by

the President of India in (1988).

> He got Sahitya Academy Cultural Award in 1983.

> His poet style is - Modern, Restrained and conver-
sational.
> Nai Paul’s, India and Mine. Nissim Ezekiel *

His famous Novel Work :

1) Time to Change (1952)
2) The Discovery of India (1956).

3) The unfinished Man (1960).

4) The Exact name (1965).

5) Hymn in Darkness (1976).

6) Latter day plasm was paplyms (1982).

* Ezekiel was born in Bombay in 1924 in a Jew-

ish family.
* His famous Poem :
1) The Night of the scorpion.

2) The Enterprise.

3) Marriage.
4) Good by party for Muspuspa TS

GEORGE ORWEL
> Who wrote-Ninteen, Eighty four - (1934).
> Birth - Motihari 1903-1950.

His famous work :

1) 1984
2) Animal farm (1945).
3) Burmes days (1934).
4) Politics and the English language (1946)
His famous quote :
1) “Perhaps one did want to beloved so much as to
be understood”

2) Who controls the past, controls the future.

> The character snowball’ has been created

by George Orwell in Animal farm
 SALMAN RUSDI
1947-Mumbai
> He Got Booker Prize 1981 for Midnight’s Children.

His famous works :

* shame 1983.

* Joseph Anton : a memoir.

* The Ground Beneath her feet (1993 ).

* East and West (1994).

* Salimar the clown (2005).

* The satanic verses.

> He was an Indian born Bristish Novelists.

> He also got black memorial Prize 1981.

* Fury (2008).
* Golden House (2017).

* A fine Pickle (2009).

 MAHATMA GANDHI
1) Experiment with truth.

2) Bhagvat Gita.

3) Hindu Dharm.
4) Non-violence.

AMITAV GHOS
1) The Shadow line

J.L. Nehru
1889-1964

1) The Discovery of India.

2) The Glimps of World History (1934).

3) The unity of India (1941).

4) India and the World (1936).

5) Jammu and Kashmir.
 KULDEEP NAYAR
1924-2018
1) India after Nehru.
2) Beyond the lines (auto blography).
3) The Judgement.
* He was Awarded an Alumni Merit Award by
North-Western university

ARUNDHATI ROY
1961
> He Got Booker Prize for the :

1) God of small thing (1997).

2) Azadi; freedom (2020).

3) Kasmir: The Case of freedom (2011).

4) The Cost of Living (1999).

5) The Doctor and saint (2017).

6) The end of Imagination (1998).

7) My sedidious heart (2019).

8) Power Politics(2001) 9) War Talk (2003,
* She got first time in India Booker Prize.

> The God of small things is the debut novel of indian

writer, Arundhati Roy, Published in 1997.

→ It is a story about the childhood experiences of fra-

ternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the “”Love
Laws” that lay down” who should be loved, and How
much” The book explores how small things affect
people’s behaviour and their lives.

Characters of this Novel :

(i) Estha,

(ii) Rahel,

(iii) Ammu,
(iv) velutha,

(v) Chacko,

(vi) Baby Kochamma.

 SRI AUROBINDO GHOSH
His famous work are
1) “The Life Divine.

2) Savitri : A legend & A symbol (1950).

3) The Synthesis of Yoga (1948).

4) The Human cycle.

5) The Ideal of Human Unity (1949).

6) On the veda.

> His Philosophy is a synthesis of Idealism Realism,

naturalism, Pragaticism.

> According to his Gyan (knowledge), Bhakti (Devo-

tion), Karma Work (ethics) can lead man to the Di-
vine Path.
 KIRAN DESAI
> She Won Booker Prize(2006) for her Novel the In-
heritance of Loss

> The Theme of inheritence of Loss is -

“The loss of Identity and the way is travels through
generation as the sense of loss.

GIRISH KARNAD
1938
1) Hayavadan (1975).
2) Yayati (1961).

3) The fire and the Rain.

4) Nagmani.
5) The Dreams of Tipu-Sultan.

6) Tuglaq.

7) Mohan Rakesh.