A. K. Ramanujan
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Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan (1929-1993) was an Indian author, who wrote in both English and Kannada. Ramanujan wore many hats as an author: he was a playwright, folklorist, philologist, translator, and poet. In his academic work as a scholar of literature he drew on his skills as a producer of literature. His academic research ranged across four Indian languages: Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Sanskrit. He published about both classical and modern variants of these literatures and also argued strongly for giving local, non-standard dialects their due.
He was born into a Tamil-speaking family living in Kannada-speaking Mysore City in 1929. He was educated in English at the Mysore University and at Indiana University. He later went on to teach Indian languages at the University of Chicago. At the latter institution, he was a leading presence for three decades and trained two generations of Indologists.
He is popularly known for his avant-garde approach to English poetry, including works such as The Strider, The Black Hen, Relations and Second Sight.
He also wrote poetry in Kannada.
He died in 1993.
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[edit] Major Publications
His works include translations from Classical Tamil and Medieval Kannada, such as:
[edit] Translations and Studies of Literature
- The Interior Landscape: Love Poems form a Classical Tamil Anthology, 1967
- Speaking of Siva, 1973
- The Literatures of India. Edited with Edwin Gerow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974
- Hymns for the Drowning, 1981
- A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India
- Poems of Love and War. New York: Columbian University Press, 1985
- Folktales from India, Oral Tales from Twenty Indian Languages, 1991
- "Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?" in India Through Hindu Categories, edited by McKim Marriot, 1990
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[edit] Poetry, Fiction, Drama
- The Striders. London: Oxford University Press, 1996
- Hokkulalli Huvilla, No Lotus in the Navel. Dharwar, 1969
- Relations. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1971
- Selected Poems. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1976
- Samskara. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1976
- Mattu Itara Padyagalu and Other Poems. Dharwar, 1977
- Second Sight. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986
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This article says that A. K Ramanujan was the son of Srinivas Ramanujan the well known mathematician. While Srinivas Ramanujan lived between 1887 and 1920 A.K Ramaunjan was born in 1929. So this is factual error. His father was a mathematician and an astrologer but he was some one else other than Srinivas Ramanujan. These unverified facts spread misinformation So kindly be careful while making such statements.
