Vilas Sarang (
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental syste ...
: विलास सारंग) (1942–2015) is a
modernist Indian writer, critic and translator.
Life
Sarang's stories have appeared in the UK, US, Canada and India in journals such as ''
Encounter'', ''
The London Magazine
''The London Magazine'' is the title of six different publications that have appeared in succession since 1732. All six have focused on the arts, literature and miscellaneous topics.
1732–1785
''The London Magazine, or, Gentleman's Monthly I ...
'', ''
TriQuarterly'', ''The Malahat Review'', and also in the anthologies ''New Writing in India'' (Penguin), ''The Penguin Book of Horror Stories'' and New Directions No. 41. His published books in English include a collection of stories, ''Fair Tree of the Void'', and two novels, ''In the Land of Enki'' and ''The Dinosaur Ship''.
Overview of Sarang's work
His Marathi book 'सर्जनशोध आणि लिहिता लेखक' (Pursuit of Creation and Author Engaged in Writing) received an award of Government of Maharashtra in year 2008.
Authorship
In English
* Tandoor Cinders (2008)
* Women in Cages (2006) (also translated in Marathi)
* The Dinosaur Ship (2005)
* A Fair Tree of the Void (1990) (also translated in Marathi)
* Editor of the anthology "
Indian English Poetry
Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Indian poets writing in English have succeeded to nativize or indianize English in order to reveal typical Indian situations. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first ...
Since 1950" (1989)
* The Stylistics of Literary Translation (1988)
* A Kind of Silence (1978) (a collection of poetry)
* In the Land of Enki (also translated in Marathi and
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
)
* Seven Critical Essays
In Marathi
* अक्षरांचा श्रम केला (2000) (literary criticism)
* आतंक (1999)
* मॅनहोलमधला माणूस
* सिसिफस आणि बेलाक्वा (literary criticism)
* सोलेदाद (1975)
* रुद्र
* सर्जनशोध आणि लिहिता लेखक (received an award from the Government of Maharashtra in 2008
)
* चिरंतनाचा गंध
* कविता: १९६९-१९८४ (a collection of poetry)
Essay by Vilas Sarang (in Marathi)
References
External links
The Bilingual Modernism of Vilas Sarang, CaravanVilas Sarang: the writer you should have read to understand post-modern Indian literatureObituary for Vilas SarangOutlook Review of Women in CagesThe Hindu review of Another LifeDilip Chitre on Vilas Sarang in TehelkaVilas Sarang's essay Perils of Nativism
Books Authored by Vilas Sarang
Books that reference Vilas Sarang
Literary Encyclopedia Article on Vilas Sarang
Confessions of A Marathi Writer by Vilas Sarang
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1942 births
2015 deaths
Marathi-language poets
Indian literary critics
Marathi-language writers
People from Uttara Kannada
20th-century Indian writers
Writers from Karnataka
20th-century Indian male writers