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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. [1]
The Serpent and the Rope is Raja Rao's second novel. [1] It was first published in 1960 by John Murray.Written in an autobiographical style, the novel deals with the concepts of existence, reality, and fulfillment of one's capabilities. [2]
The Raja Rao Award, in some sources the Raja Rao Award for Literature, [1] [2] [3] [4] is a former literary award named in honour of expatriate Indian writer Raja Rao ...
Sahitya Akademi Award for English Award for contributions to English literature Awarded for Literary award in India Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, Government of India Reward(s) ₹ 1 lakh (US$1,200) First awarded 1960 Last awarded 2022 Highlights Total awarded 51 First winner R. K. Narayan Most Recent winner Anuradha Roy Website sahitya-akademi.gov.in Part of a series on Sahitya Akademi Awards ...
One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R. K. Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an International readership. Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of classics of modern Indian English literature; they are noted for their ...
Zamindar Raja Rao lives with his wife Syamala Devi. They have a son Anand, who resides in America. The family guards a secret about an ancestral treasure, known only to Raja Rao, Syamala Devi, and Anand. A notorious bandit, Bhayankar, learns of the treasure and murders Raja Rao, imprisoning Syamala Devi in a hidden cave to gain access to the ...
R. Raj Rao was born in Bombay, India.He earned a PhD in English from the University of Bombay in 1986 and received the Nehru Centenary British Fellowship for his post-doctoral research at the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, UK [6] He attended the International Writing Program, Iowa, in 1996. [7]
Krishna Deva Rao's father was Raja Janumpally Rameshwar Rao II, the Raja of Wanaparthy Samsthanam. Krishna Deva Rao had a brother Ram Dev Rao. [ 1 ] Rameshwar Rao III was also the titular Raja of Wanaparthy from 1944 until 1971, when, by the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India, the privy purses of the princes were abolished and official ...