Mulk Raj Anand Biography

Mulk Raj Anand, prominent Indian author with hundreds of novels, short stories, and critical essays in English and is also considered as a founder of the English-language Indian novel.

1. HomeAuthorsMulk Raj Anand Biography
뀀뀁뀘뀈뀒Tuesday, September 28, 2021 Advertise With UsContact Us
HomeNewsArticlesEventsBooksAuthorsInterviewsReviewsVideos

Mulk Raj Anand Biography
On Aug 23, 2019
Introduction
Mulk Raj Anand, prominent Indian author with hundreds of novels, short stories, and critical
essays in English and is also considered as a founder of the English-language Indian novel. He
is best remembered for his realistic depiction of the poorer classes of people in India. He was
very familiar with the problems of the poorer sections.
Mulk Raj Anand, born on 12 December 1905, in Peshawar, a prominent Indian writer primarily
known for his concern for the low caste people in the Indian society and portrayed about their
wretched lives.
His father’s name was Lal Chand and Ishwar Kur was his mother. He was among those Indian
English writers who gained an international readership. Anand produced various forms of
literary art and creative writing such as novels and short stories which proved to be the classic
works of Modern Indian English literature marked for the apperceptive perception into the lives
of the oppressed.
He studied at Khalsa College, Amritsar and graduated in 1924. Then moved to England where
he attended University College London as an undergraduate and after that PhD in Philosophy
from Cambridge University in 1929. Anand developed friendships with members of the
Bloomsbury Group all this while. During his while away to Geneva, he used to lecture at the
League of Nations’ School of Intellectual Cooperation.
Career
His writing career began in England where he used to publish short reviews in T.S. Eliot’s
magazine, ‘Criterion’. Mulk Raj Anand’s literary career was an outcome of a family tragedy
encouraged by the rigidity of the Caste System. After his aunt was excommunicated by her
family for sharing her meal with a Muslim woman, she chose to suicide. Then in response to
this incident he wrote his first prose essay.
His first novel Untouchable, published in 1935, in which he revealed the miserable condition of
the lives of India’s untouchable caste. And in this book, he incorporated the Punjabi and
Hindustani idioms into English and was considered as the Charles Dickens of India. At the
same time, he also supported freedom elsewhere around the globe and volunteered in the
Spanish Civil War.
 0뀢
579 Share
Tweets by frontlistIN
Tweet #DBF2021
Email
SUBSCRIBE
Tweet With #DBF2021
Subscribe To Newsletter
NEXT 1 of 944
Mr. Pranav Gupta @The
41st FIP Annual Awards
For Excellence in Book…
2 hours ago
Dr. Ashok Gupta @ The
41st FIP Annual Awards
For Excellence in Book…
2 hours ago
Chf. Guest Dr. Rajkumar
Ranjan Singh @ 41st
FIP Annual Awards For…
2 hours ago
Interview with Radhika
R Vendat, author of
“Contrived…
18 hours ago PREV
Recent Posts

DELHI BOOK FAIR 2021
BOOK LAUNCH

2.  Anglo-indian fiction Enormous literary Mulk raj anand Peshawar Short reviews
FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin
During the World War II he worked as a scriptwriter for BBC London and there he came into
contact with George Orwell, who reviewed Anand’s novel The Sword and the Sickle (1942) and
remarked that “although Mr Anand’s novel would still be interesting on its own merits if it had
been written by an Englishman, it is impossible to read it without remembering every few pages
that are also a cultural curiosity,” adding that “the growth of an English-language Indian
literature is a strange phenomenon.” He always picked up issues from the ‘India’s social
structure’ and on ‘British rule in India’.
Works and Awards
After returning to India in 1946 Anand continued with his enormous literary output like poetry
and essays on a wide range of subjects, as well as autobiographies, novels and short stories.
Among his novels The Village (1939), Across the Black Waters (1939), The Sword and the
Sickle (1942), were written in England; and Coolie (1936), The Private Life of an Indian Prince
(1953), The Road (1961) were probably the most important works written in India.
He painted himself on a memoir named Seven Summers (1951), which contained seven parts
and for one part Mulk Raj Anand won the Sahitya Akademy Award called ‘Morning Face’ (1968).
A literary magazine, ‘Marg’ was founded by him. Anand taught in many Universities.
He worked with International Progress Organization (IPO) on the issue of cultural self-
comprehension of nations in the 1970s. He was honoured with the Padma Bhushan, India’s
highest civilian Award in 1967 for his vast contributions towards the field of Literature and
Education.
Death
Mulk Raj Anand, the pioneer of Anglo-Indian fiction, died of pneumonia at the age of 98 on 28
September 2004, in Pune.
 0뀢
579 Share
 PREV POST
Vikram Seth
NEXT POST 
Salman Rushdie: Biography
NEXT 
Jen Sincero Shashi Tharoor Dean P. Turnbloom PREV
Your email address will not be published.
Your Comment
You might also like
Leave A Reply
DELHI BOOK FAIR 2021
BOOK LAUNCH

3. Your Name * Your Email *
Your Website
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
POST COMMENT
21 Top Indian Book Publishers
Top 10 Best Publishing Houses in India
Top 15 best Hindi novels by renowned
Indian authors one must…
2021 Fu Lei Translation and Publishing
award reveals finalists…
Majha college organises book fair
Local history is theme of book fair in
Riverside, with authors…
Jen Sincero
Shashi Tharoor
Dean P. Turnbloom
Home About Us Careers Tech/Gadgets Editorial© 2021 - Frontlist - News and Updates of Publishing Industry, Book Reviews, Education News, Author
Interviews, and Videos.. All Rights Reserved. Website Design: OMLOGIC
Most Viewed Latest News Authors
DELHI BOOK FAIR 2021
BOOK LAUNCH