The well-stocked library at the school and his father's own fed his reading habit, and he started writing as well. Narayan moved to Mysore to live with his family when his father was transferred to the Maharajah's College High School. When he was twelve years old, Narayan participated in a pro-independence march, for which he was reprimanded by his uncle the family was apolitical and considered all governments wicked. Narayan was an avid reader, and his early literary diet included Dickens, Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy. High School, and the Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School. While living with his grandmother, Narayan studied at a succession of schools in Madras, including the Lutheran Mission School in Purasawalkam, C.R.C. According to Laxman, the family mostly conversed in English, and grammatical errors on the part of Narayan and his siblings were frowned upon. She taught him arithmetic, mythology, classical Indian music and Sanskrit. His grandmother gave him the nickname of Kunjappa, a name that stuck to him in family circles. During this time, his best friends and playmates were a peacock and a mischievous monkey. As his father's job entailed frequent transfers, Narayan spent a part of his childhood under the care of his maternal grandmother, Parvati. His father was a school headmaster, and Narayan did some of his studies at his father's school. Narayan was second among the sons his younger brother Ramachandran later became an editor at Gemini Studios, and the youngest brother Laxman became a cartoonist. He was one of eight children six sons and two daughters. R.K.Narayan was born in a Tamil Brahmin family on 10 October 1906 in Madras (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu), British India. He was also nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. In a career that spanned over sixty years Narayan received many awards and honours including the AC Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan, India's second and third highest civilian awards, and in 1994 the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest honor of India's national academy of letters. Narayan's short stories have been compared with those of Guy de Maupassant because of his ability to compress a narrative. He has been compared to William Faulkner who created a similar fictional town and likewise explored with humor and compassion the energy of ordinary life. Narayan highlights the social context and everyday life of his characters. The Financial Expert was hailed as one of the most original works of 1951 and Sahitya Academy Award winner The Guide was adapted for the film (winning a Filmfare Award for Best Film) and for Broadway. The fictional town of Malgudi was first introduced in Swami and Friends. Narayan's mentor and friend Graham Greene was instrumental in getting publishers for Narayan's first four books including the semi-autobiographical trilogy of Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts and The English Teacher. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao. Narayan 10 October 1906 – ) was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (better known as R.K.
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