''Morning Face'' is a novel by

Mulk Raj Anand Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, recognised for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, togethe ...

and was first published in 1968. The book won the

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

in 1971. The book features Anand's autobiographical narrative that was first used by him in ''Seven Summers''. He delivers the story through a personalized telling of the late independence era politics and history. Anand himself considered the book to be on the structural lines of Raja Rao's '' The Serpent and the Rope'', but separated by the values espoused.

Translations

This novel was translated into Telugu language by Revuri Anantha Padmanabha Rao entitled ''Prabhata Vadanam'' in 1992 and published by

Sahitya Akademi The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its of ...

, New Delhi.

References

Novels by Mulk Raj Anand 1968 novels 1968 Indian novels Sahitya Akademi Award-winning works {{1960s-novel-stub