U R Ananthamurthy

Samskara

A Rite for a Dead Man
Übersetzer: Ramanujan, A K

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Produktbeschreibung

"Originally published in English in 1976 by Oxford University Press India and reprinted here by arrangement with the publisher"--Title page verso.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New York Review of Books
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 129mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 203g
• ISBN-13: 9781590179123
• ISBN-10: 1590179129
• Artikelnr.: 44734244

Autorenporträt

U.R. Ananthamurthy (1932-2014) was a novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was one of India's most celebrated modern writers, a recipient of the Jnanpith Award (India's foremost literary prize), and an important representative of the New Movement in Kannada-language literature. A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) was born Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan in Mysore, India. He is a poet in English and Kannada, a translator from Kannada and Tamil, as well as a scholar, folklorist, philologist, playwright, and essayist. NYRB Poets publishes The Interior Landscape, an anthology of classical Tamil poems translated by Ramanujan.