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The Vintage book of modern Indian literature / edited by Amit Chaudhuri.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Multiple languages
- Subjects (All):
- Indic literature (English)--20th century.
- Indic literature (English).
- Indic literature--Translations into English.
- Indic literature.
- India--Literary collections.
- India.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Translations.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 646 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Modern Indian literature
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- Chaudhuri's extravagant and discerning collection unfurls the full diversity of Indian writing from the 1850s to the present in English, and in elegant new translations from Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu. Among the 38 authors represented here are contemporary superstars like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Pankaj Mishra.
- Contents:
- The Bengal Renaissance and after
- Bankimchandra Chatterjee (1838-94)
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
- Sukumar Ray (1887-1923)
- Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee (1894-1950)
- Parashuram (Rajshekhar Basu) (1880-1960)
- Buddhadev Bose (1908-74)
- Mahashweta Devi (b.1926)
- Hindi
- Premchand (Dhanpat Rai) (1880-1936)
- Nirmal Verma (b. 1929)
- Krishna Sobti (b. 1925)
- Urdu
- Sadat Hasan Manto (1912-55)
- Qurratulain Hyder (b. 1927)
- Naiyer Masud (b. 1936)
- The South
- U.R. Anantha Murthy (b. 1932)
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (c. 1908-94)
- O.V. Vijayan (b. 1930)
- Ambai (C.S. Lakshmi) (b. 1945)
- Pages from autobiographies
- Fakir Mohan Senapati (1843-1918)
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1998)
- Aubrey Menen (1912-89)
- Pankaj Mishra (b. 1969)
- English
- R.K. Narayan (b. 1907)
- Raja Rao (b. 1908)
- Ruskin Bond (b. 1934)
- A.K. Ramanujan (1929-93)
- Dom Moraes (b. 1938)
- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (b. 1947)
- Adil Jussawalla (B. 1940)
- Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
- Vikram Seth (b. 1952)
- Amitav Ghosh (b. 1956)
- Upamanyu Chatterjee (b. 1959)
- Vikram Chandra (b. 1961)
- Sunetra Gupta (b. 1965)
- Aamer Hussein (b. 1955)
- Ashok Banker (b. 1964)
- Rohit Manchanda (b. 1963).
- Notes:
- Originally published as: The picador book of modern Indian literature. London : Macmillan Publishers, 2001.
- ISBN:
- 037571300X
- 9780375713002
- OCLC:
- 49859925
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