Narayan, R. K.
Narayan, R. K. , Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan ( 1906 – 2001 ),Indian novelist writing in English; he was born in Madras, and educated at the Collegiate High School in Mysore, where his father was headmaster, then at Maharaja's College, Mysore. He worked (very briefly) as a teacher, then as a journalist, before publishing his first novel, Swami and Friends ( 1935 ), in which he created the imaginary small town of Malgudi, which he was to map out and populate in several succeeding novels, including The Bachelor of Arts ( 1937 ), The English Teacher ( 1945 ), Mr Sampath ( 1949 ), The Financial Expert ( 1952 ), The Vendor of Sweets ( 1967 ), The Painter of Signs ( 1977 ), A Tiger for Malgudi ( 1983 ), and The Grandmother's Tale and Other Stories ( 1993 ). His fictional world is peopled with characters—journalists, printers, professors, financial experts, lawyers,...
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