Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan (October 10, 1906 - May 13, 2001) was an Indian novelist. His novels are characterised by Chekhovian simplicity and gentle humour. Characters in his novels tend to be very down-to-earth. His novels are all set in an imaginary place called Malgudi which is a typical South Indian town. His writing career began with Swami and Friends. At first, he could not get the novel published. He then sent a draft to Graham Greene, who liked it so much that he arranged for its publication. Greene was to remain a close friend of his. After that, he published a continuous stream of novels, all set in Malgudi and each dealing with different characters in that fictional place. Autobiographical content forms a significant part of some of his novels, for example, The English Teacher. Most of his novels deal with the humdrum of everyday life. In fact, his work has sometimes been criticised for being excessively simplistic and for sometimes being cliched. List of his major works (in chronological order) : Swami and Friends, 1935 Bachelor of Arts, 1937 The Dark Room, 1938 The English Teacher, 1945 An Astrologer's Day and Other Stories, 1947 Mr. Sampath - The Printer of Malgudi, 1949 The Financial Expert, 1952 Waiting for the Mahatma, 1955 Lawley Road and Other Stories, 1956 The Guide, 1958, made into a Hindi movie by Dev Anand The Man-Eater of Malgudi, 1961 My Dateless Diary, 1964 Gods, Demons, and Other Stories, 1965 The Vendor of Sweets, 1967 My Days, 1974 The Painter of Signs, 1976 Malgudi Days, 1982 A Tiger for Malgudi, 1983 Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories, 1985 The Talkative Man, 1986 The World of Nagaraj, 1990 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.