Raja Rao

Raja Rao (* 8. November 1908 in Hassan , Mysore , India , † 8. July 2006 in Austin , Texas ) was an Indian novel writer .

Life

Raja Rao was born into a brahmin family. After successfully studying at Nizam's College in Hyderabad and the Islamic University, he went to France in 1929 , where he studied in Montpellier and at the Sorbonne . In 1939 he returned to India. After 1948 he lived alternately in India, Europe and the USA. From 1966 to 1980 he taught Indian philosophy and Buddhism at the University of Austin , Texas .

Together with Mulk Raj Anand and RK Narayan, Rao is considered to be the founder of English-language fiction in India . In his first novel Kanthapura from 1938 he portrayed the struggle for independence against the British from the perspective of a south Indian village. His last work was a biography of Mahatma Gandhi ; it was published in 1998 under the title Great Indian Way .

Works

Kanthapura, 1938
- German edition: Kanthapura . Novel. Translated by Ulrich Blumenbach . Dörlemann Verlag , Zurich 2003, ISBN 978-3-908777-02-1
The Serpent and the Rope , 1960
The Cat and Shakespeare: A Tale of India , 1965
Comrade Kirilov , 1976
The Policeman and the Rose: Stories , 1978
The Chessmaster and His Moves , 1988, ISBN 81-7094-021-4
On the Ganga Ghat , 1989, ISBN 81-7094-050-8
The Great Indian Way: A Life of Mahatma Gandhi , 1998, ISBN 81-7094-308-6

Awards

1969: Padma Bhushan
1988: Neustadt International Prize for Literature
2007: Padma Vibhushan ( Posthumous ).

Web links

Literature by and about Raja Rao in the catalog of the German National Library
Website about the author

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Schoettli: Between the worlds, between the times. On the death of the Indo-English writer Raja Rao. NZZ Online, July 12, 2006, accessed on March 8, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rao, Raja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Indian writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hassan, Mysore , India
DATE OF DEATH	July 8, 2006
Place of death	Austin , USA

[1] Urs Schoettli: Between the worlds, between the times. On the death of the Indo-English writer Raja Rao. NZZ Online, July 12, 2006, accessed on March 8, 2019 .