Raja Rao

Raja Rao
Born(1908-11-08)8 November 1908
Hassan, Kingdom of Mysore, British India
(now in Karnataka, India)
Died8 July 2006(2006-07-08) (aged 97)
Austin, Texas, USA
OccupationWriter, professor
LanguageKannada, French, English
Alma materOsmania University
University of Madras, University of Montpellier
Sorbonne
Period1938–1998
GenreNovel, short story, essay
Notable worksKanthapura (1938)
The Serpent and the Rope (1960)
Notable awards
Website
therajaraoendowment.org

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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] For the entire body of his work, Rao was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1988. Rao's wide-ranging body of work, spanning a number of genres, is seen as a varied and significant contribution to Indian English literature, as well as World literature as a whole.[2]

  1. ^ "Conferred Sahitya Academy Award in 1964".
  2. ^ "University of Texas acquires Raja Rao's archive". The Hindu. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 17 June 2016.