ZUM TOD DES INDISCHEN SCHRIFTSTELLERS KIRAN NAGARKAR

07.09.2019 Der 1942 in Bombay geborene indische Schriftsteller Kiran Nagarkar (Bild) ist am 5. September 2019 gestorben. Er schrieb in Marathi und Englisch und veröffentlichte Romane, Theaterstücke und Drehbücher. Er galt als einer der wichtigsten Schriftsteller im postkolonialistischen Indien. Im Jahr 2011 war Nagarkar der zweite Gastautor des Literaturhauses Zürich.

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Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writer Kiran Nagarkar dies at 77

His novels offered a biting humour and complex insights into human nature.

Like several writers and artists of his generation, Nagarkar began his career as an educationist, a journalist and then later as a screenplay writer in the advertising industry. His advertisment campaigns with close friend and poet Arun Kolatkar were considered path-breaking.

Gauri Vij

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sahitya-akademi-awardee-novelist-kiran-nagarkar-dead/article29344962.ece

The bilingual bard of Bombay and Mumbai, Kiran Nagarkar gave Indian writing in English an electric charge

Like many of that generation, Nagarkar was rooted in a cosmopolitan, bilingual modernity. His imagination gave Indian writing in English an electric charge, a bawdy energy that saved it from derivative dullness. His first novel, Saat Sakkam Trechalis, was written in Marathi in 1974; its urban, male angst could be traced to predecessors such as Bhalchandra Nemade's Kosala (1963) but there was no mistaking this striking, new voice.

Amrita Dutta

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/kiran-nagarkar-dead-english-writer-the-bilingual-bard-of-bombay-and-mumbai-5970829/

Famed writer Kiran Nagarkar passes away

Eminent writer Kiran Nagarkar, whose epic novel 'Cuckold' and riotously funny 'Ravan and Eddie' trilogy count among the most celebrated works of fiction by an Indian writer in English, passed away late on Thursday evening.

Vabhav Purandare

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/famed-writer-kiran-nagarkar-passes-away/articleshow/71001699.cms

Kiran Nagarkar, the writer who made us remember

Kiran Nagarkar, the novelist and playwright who has died in Mumbai at the age of 77, was prescient in seeing the harm fundamentalism can do to a society without a firm foundation or belief in equality and freedom.

Salil Tripathi

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/obituary-kiran-nagarkar-the-writer-who-made-us-remember-1567797585105.html

Humor ist die beste Waffe des Intellekts

Sein Witz und seine breit ausgesteckten literarischen Visionen verschafften Kiran Nagarkar auch im deutschsprachigen Raum Anerkennung. Nun ist der indische Romancier kurz nach Erscheinen seines jüngsten Romans 77jährig in Mumbai verstorben.

Angela Schader

https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/humor-ist-die-beste-waffe-des-intellekts-der-indische-autor-kiran-nagarkar-ist-tot-ld.1507157

Der kleine Krieger der Toleranz

Der grosse indische Schriftsteller Kiran Nagarkar haderte oft mit seinem Heimatland.

Martin Ebel

https://www.derbund.ch/der-kleine-krieger-der-toleranz/story/12147709

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