Kiran Nagarkar

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Kiran Nagarkar at the Leipzig Book Fair 2013

Kiran Nagarkar ( Marathi : किरण नगरकर , Kiraṇ Nagarkar ; * 1942 in Bombay ; † September 5, 2019 ) was an Indian writer living in Mumbai (Bombay) who wrote in Marathi and English . He has published novels , plays, and screenplays .

Life

In addition to plays and screenplays, Nagarkar wrote four novels in particular, which earned him the reputation of an outstanding representative of contemporary Indian literature . Nagarkar studied at Ferguson College in Pune and then worked as a lecturer at various colleges, as a journalist, screenwriter and especially in the advertising industry.

He wrote his first novel Saat Sakkam Trechalis (1974; German seven times six is ​​forty-three , 2007) in his native Marathi. The bitter and burlesque portrayal of the world of the young Bombayman Kushank, in its fragmented form and innovative language treatment, is considered a milestone in Marathi literature and was awarded the Hari Narayan Apte Award in 1975 for the best debut novel.

Nagarkar wrote his second novel Ravan and Eddie (1994; Eng. Ravan & Eddie , 2004) in English and was therefore often attacked. The childhood story of two boys from a Hindu and a Christian family who are neighbors and yet live in completely different worlds has been criticized as both anti-Hindu and anti-Christian.

Kiran Nagarkar at the Chandigarh Literature Festival, November 2016

For his novel Cuckold (1997 German Krishna's shadow , 2002) Kiran Nagarkar received the highest recognition of the Indian literary academy , the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 2000 .

In his novel God's Little Soldier (2006; Eng. God's Little Warrior , 2006) he deals with extremism and fundamentalism.


From April 2008 Kiran Nagarkar was a guest of the DAAD's Berlin artist program for one year .

From November 24th to 30th, 2008, together with the German writer Christoph Peters , he took over the 22nd Tuebingen poetics lectureship at the Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen .

From June to November 2011 he stayed at the Literaturhaus and the PWG Foundation in Zurich.

Works

  • Saat Sakkam Trechalis. Mauj Prakashan, Bombay 1974.
    • Translation: Seven times six is ​​forty-three. Translated from Marathi, Hindi and English by Ditte and Giovanni Bandini. A1, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-927743-95-3 .
  • Ravan and Eddie. Penguin India, 1995.
    • Translation: Ravan & Eddie. Translated from the English by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. A1, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-927743-73-1 .
  • Cuckold. HarperCollins India, 1997.
    • Translation: Krishna's shadow. Translated from the English by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. A1, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-927743-63-1 .
  • God's Little Soldier. HarperCollins India, 2006
  • Dream images of writing. Tübingen Poetics Lectures 2008 (together with Christoph Peters ). Edited by Dorothee Kimmich and Philipp Ostrowicz. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2009.
  • The extras. HarperCollins India, 2011
    • Translation: The extras. Translated from the English by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. A1, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-940666-30-7 .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Kiran Nagarkar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angela Schader: The Indian novelist Kiran Nagarkar is Zurich's new “writer in residence”. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 20, 2011, accessed September 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Kiran Nagarkar. In: buchmarkt.de. November 12, 2012, accessed September 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nagarkar, Kiran
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bombay
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 2019