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Kiran Nagarkar (born 1942) is an Indian novelist, playwright, film and drama critic and screenwriter both in Marathi and English, and is one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India.〔Sanga, p. 177〕 Amongst his works are ''Saat Sakkam Trechalis'' (tr. ''Seven Sixes Are Forty Three'') (1974), ''Ravan and Eddie'' (1994), and the epic novel, ''Cuckold'' (1997) for which he was awarded the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award in English by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.〔〔(Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955–2007: English ) Sahitya Akademi Official website.〕 ==Novels== Nagarkar is notable among Indian writers for having written acclaimed novels in more than one language. His first novel, ''Saat Sakkam Trechalis'' (later published in English as ''Seven Sixes Are Forty Three'') is considered one of the landmark works of Marathi literature. His novel ''Ravan and Eddie'', begun in Marathi but completed in English, was not published until 1994. Since ''Ravan and Eddie'', all Nagarkar's novels have been written in English. His third novel, ''Cuckold'' on mystic Meerabai's husband, Bhoj Raj, was published in 1997 and won the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award. It has been translated into a number of languages and has become one of the most beloved contemporary Indian novels, both in India and in Europe. It took him nine years to write his next, ''God's Little Soldier'', a tale of a liberal Muslim boy's tryst with religious orthodoxy, which was published in 2006, to mixed reviews. In 2012, he published ''The Extras'', a sequel to ''Ravan and Eddie'' that traces the adult lives of Ravan and Eddie as extras in Bollywood. Kiran Nagarkar was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, described as 'highest tribute Germany can pay to individuals'. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kiran Nagarkar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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