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Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics. The Serpent and the Rope (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India, established him as one of the finest Indian prose stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963. For the entire body of his work, Rao was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in ...
Jul 4, 2024 · Raja Rao (born November 8, 1908, Hassan, Mysore [now Karnataka], India—died July 8, 2006, Austin, Texas, U.S.) was an author who was among the most significant Indian novelists writing in English during the middle decades of the 20th century. Descended from a distinguished Brahman family in southern India, Rao studied English at Nizam College, Hyderabad, and then at the University of Madras, where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1929.
Oct 4, 2023 · Raja Rao, a renowned Indian writer, was born on November 8, 1908, in Hassan, a small town in the state of Karnataka, India. He hailed from a distinguished Brahmin family and grew up in an environment that deeply valued education and literature. His father, H. Narayana Rao, was a teacher and an ardent lover of literature, which played a ...
Jun 29, 2020 · An understanding of Raja Rao’s (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) art is enhanced by a contextualization of his novels. Although Rao admitted to several Western influences, his work is best understood as a part of the Indian tradition. Rao regarded literature as Sadhana, or spiritual discipline; for him, writing was a consequence of….
Raja Rao was one of the most prominent writers in 20th-century India, known for his novels and short stories. The critic Ivar Ivask said his “greatest achievement [was] the perfection of the metaphysical novel.” Rao was born in Hassan (now Karnataka), South India in 1908.
Raja Rao (row), with Mulk Raj Anand and R. K. Narayan, is considered one of the most important twentieth century Indo-English novelists. The eldest in a Brahman family of nine children, he was ...
Raja Rao's Work "'Teacher' is perhaps the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of Raja Rao. 'Novelist' yes, 'philosophical novelist' even better, and though 'scholarly Sanskritist' (Salman Rushdie's peculiar description in The New Yorker) is not right, it is not altogether wrong either."--excerpted from Robert D. King's essay, "Raja Rao, Teacher" in Word as Mantra, Robert L. Hardgrave, ed., Delhi, Katha, 1998. "Raja Rao is one of those enigmatic writers whose novels have been ...
For Raja Rao, writing is a sadhana, a spiritual discipline whose goal is the realization of Truth itself. Words become mantras, powerful syllables whose sound and meaning can move the reader toward that goal by giving them experiences of it. Within India and influential circles in the West, Raja Rao's reputation has been great. The audience for his work comprises general readers, readers around the world who are interested in India, and Indian readers.
Jul 8, 2006 · Raja Rao (Kannada: ರಾಜ ರಾವ್) has long been recognised as "a major novelist of our age." His five earlier novels—Kanthapura (1932), The Serpent and the Rope (1960), The Cat and Shakespeare (1965), Comrade Kirillov (1976) and The Chessmaster and His Moves (1988)—and three collections of short stories—The Cow of the Barricades and Other Stories (1947), The Policeman and the Rose (1978) and On the Ganga Ghat (1989)—won wide and exceptional international acclaim. Raja Rao ...
Raja Rao “[Raja Rao is] perhaps the most brilliant—and certainly the most interesting—writer of modern India.”—Santha Rama Rau, as quoted in “The Quality of Presence” (WLT 62, Autumn 1988) Raja Rao (1908–2006) was born in Hassan, in what is now Karnataka in South India.Though his father taught Kannada at a Hyderabad college, Rao graduated from the University of Madras with degrees in English and history; he then traveled to France for postgraduate studies.
