K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar

K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar

Born	1908 Sattur, Tamil Nadu, India
Died	1999 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Residence	Chennai
Citizenship	India
Nationality	Indian
Fields	English
Institutions	Andhra University
Known for	Indian Writing in English
Notable awards	Sahitya Akademi Fellowship

Kodaganallur Ramaswami Srinivasa Iyengar (1908–1999), popularly known as K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, was an Indian writer in English, former Vice Chancellor of Andhra University. He was given the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1985.

Career

He joined the Department of English, Andhra University which was started in 1947.^[1] In 1966 Prof. Iyengar became the Vice-chancellor of the Andhra University on 30 June 1966 and continued till 29 November 1968. The Department of English, one of the oldest in the University, was carved out of the Department of Modern European Languages.

He prepared his lectures in Indian Writing in English to be given at the University of Leeds in 1958 that later formed the basis of the famous book, Indian Writing in English.

Iyengar in October 1972, gave a series of six lectures on Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla covering the following themes: the Yogi and the Poet; the Savitri Legend; Aswapati the Forerunner; Savitri and Satyavan; Savitri’s Yoga; Dawn to greater Dawn.^[2]

Literary works

Lytton Strachey (1938)
Indo-Anglian Literature (1943)
Literature and authorship in India (1943)
The Indian contribution to English literature (1945)
Sri Aurobindo - Biography (1945)^[3]
Gerard Manley Hopkins, the man and the poet (1948)
On the Mother (1952)
Shakespeare (1964)
Education and the new India (1967)
Indian Writers in Council^[4]
Leaves from a Log: Fragments of a Journey.
Rabindranath Tagore (1965)
Mainly academic talks to students and teachers (1968)
Guru Nanak - A Homage (1973)
Indian Writing in English (1983)
Australia helix (1983)
Sitayana (1987)
Saga of seven mothers (1991)
Krishna-geetam (1994)

References

↑ Department of English at Andhra University.
↑ Savitri: the light of the Supreme blog
↑ Complete book of Sri Aurobindo Biography at scribd.
↑ Complete book of Indian Writers in Council at Google Books.

External links

Sahitya Akademi Award for English

1960–1975	The Guide by R. K. Narayan (1960) The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao (1964) The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin by Verrier Elwin (1965) Shadow From Ladakh by Bhabani Bhattacharya (1967) An Artist in Life by Niharranjan Ray (1969) Morning Face by Mulk Raj Anand (1971) Scholar Extraordinary by Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1975)

1976–2000	Jawaharlal Nehru by Sarvepalli Gopal (1976) Azadi by Chaman Nahal (1977) Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai (1978) Inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta (1979) On the Mother by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1980) Relationship by Jayanta Mahapatra (1981) The Last Labyrinth by Arun Joshi (1982) Latter-Day Psalms by Nissim Ezekiel (1983) The Keeper of the Dead by Keki N. Daruwalla (1984) Collected Poems by Kamala Das (1985) Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sahgal (1986) Trapfalls In the Sky by Shiv K. Kumar (1987) The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (1988) The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (1989) That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande (1990) The Trotter-Nama by Allan Sealy (1991) Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra by Ruskin Bond (1992) After Amnesia by G. N. Devy (1993) Serendip by Dom Moraes (1994) Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta (1996) Final Solutions and Other Plays by Mahesh Dattani (1998) The Collected Poems by A. K. Ramanujan (1999) Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar (2000)

2001–2015	Rajaji: A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi (2001) A New World by Amit Chaudhuri (2002) The Perishable Empire by Meenakshi Mukherjee (2003) The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee (2004) The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa (2006) Disorderly Women by Malathi Rao (2007) Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition by Chaturvedi Badrinath (2009) The Book of Rachel by Esther David (2010) India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha (2011) These Errors are Correct by Jeet Thayil (2012) Laburnum For My Head by Temsula Ao (2013) Trying to Say Goodbye by Adil Jussawalla (2014) Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry (2015)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 232524134 ISNI: 0000 0001 1810 2724 SUDOC: 067020631 BNF: cb12046662x (data)

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