Arun Joshi
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| Born | 1939 Varanasi,Uttar Pradesh |
| Died | 1993 (aged 53–54) |
| Citizenship | Indian |
Arun Joshi(1939–1993) was an Indian writer. He is known for his novelsThe Strange Case of Billy BiswasandThe Apprentice.He won theSahitya Akademi Awardfor his novelThe Last Labyrinthin 1982.[1]His novels have characters who are urban, English speaking and disturbed for some reason.[1]According to one commentator, "The shallowness of middle class society is not for him a point of rhetoric, intended to show off his own enlightened superiority, but a theme to be explored with actual concern."[1]
Life[edit]
Arun Joshi was raised inVaranasi,Uttar Pradesh, where his fatherA C Joshiwas Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University.[2]
On returning to India, he began working atDelhi Cloth & General Mills,North India's first textile factory and among the earliest joint-stock companies of the country, as chief of its recruitment and training department. He married Rukmini Lal, a daughter of a shareholder. He resigned from D.C.M. in 1965 while continuing to be the executive director of Shri Ram Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources in Delhi.[3]
Joshi lived a reclusive life and generally avoided publicity.[4]
The Foreigner[edit]
The Foreignerwas published in 1968.[5]
The Strange Case of Billy Biswas[edit]
The Strange Case of Billy Biswaswas written in 1971 and tells the story of a US returned Indian named Billy Biswas.[1]
Works[edit]
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Novels[edit]
- The Foreigner, 1968
- The Strange Case of Billy Biswas, 1971
- The Apprentice, 1974
- The Last Labyrinth, 1981
- The City and the River, 1990
Short stories[edit]
- The Survivor and Other Stories, 1975.
- The Only American From Our Village.
Other[edit]
- Shri Ram: A Biography,withKhushwant Singh,1968.
- Laia Shri Ram: A Study in Entrepreneurship and Industrial Management,1975.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^abcdSudarshan, Aditya."The strange case of Arun Joshi".The Hindu.Retrieved14 February2014.
- ^Dr. Anjan Kumar (15 February 2016)."Existential Angst in The Novels of Arun Joshi".Asvameg.Retrieved17 August2016.
- ^Dr. Shankar Kumar (2003).The Novels of Arun Joshi A Critical Study.Atlantic.ISBN9788126902088.Retrieved17 August2016.
- ^Prasad, Madhusudan (1981). "Arun Joshi - The Novelist".Indian Literature.24(4): 103–114.JSTOR23330214.
- ^Dr. Abnish Singh Chauhan (2016).The Fictional World of Arun Joshi: Paradigm Shift in Values.Authorspress.ISBN9789352071128.Retrieved20 May2020.
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