A Life in the World: U.R. Ananthamurthy in Conversation with Chandan Gowda - Softcover

U.R. Ananthamurthy; Chandan Gowda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9352776224 ISBN 13: 9789352776221

Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2019

Synopsis

A fascinating portrait of the life and ideas of the great Indian writer and public intellectual, U.R. Ananthamurthy. Between 2012 and 2013, Ananthamurthy shared his personal experiences in a series of lively conversations with academic and writer Chandan Gowda, and reflected on issues that would preoccupy him until the end. Besides the vivid accounts of his childhood, friendships, the evolution of his intellectual life, and public involvements, his passionate ideas on tradition, on India s political culture, and on language and writing make the conversations an engaging and valuable document. A Life in the World perhaps the first exercise of its kind done with an Indian writer will enthral both general readers as well as admirers of Ananthamurthy s works.

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About the Author

U.R. Ananthamurthy (1932 2014) was one of India s major literary figures and public intellectuals. After getting his doctoral degree at the University of Birmingham, he taught English at the University of Mysore. He also served as Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University at Kottayam and headed the National Book Trust, the Sahitya Akademi and the Film and Television Institute of India. An important representative of the modernist movement in Kannada literature, his extensive publications include novels, short stories, poetry, translations and essays in literary and cultural criticism. His works have been translated into several Indian and European languages and awarded major literary prizes, including the Jnanpith Award in 1994. The Government of India conferred on him the Padma Bhushan award in 1998. His major works include the novels Samskara, Bharathipura, Avasthe and Bhava. Chandan Gowda teaches at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He holds a doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has previously taught at the National Law School of India, Bengaluru. Besides academic publications, he has translated Kannada fiction and non-fiction into English, including U.R. Ananthamurthy s novella, Bara. He has compiled and edited The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader and Theatres of Democracy: Selected Essays of Shiv Visvanathan. At present, he is completing a book on the cultural politics of development in the old Mysore state and a fictional work on the legendary engineer, Sir M. Visvesvaraya, and co-translating and editing a book of short stories by the Kannada writer K.P. Purnachandra Tejasvi. He is also a regular columnist with Deccan Herald and Bangalore Mirror.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins India
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9352776224
• ISBN 13: 9789352776221
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204