Raja Rao, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Raja Rao

Indian-born English writer

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1908

Place of Birth: Karnataka, India

Date of Death: 08-Jul-2006

Profession: writer, author

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics.
The Serpent and the Rope (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India, established him as one of the finest Indian prose stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964.
For the entire body of his work, Rao was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1988.
Rao's wide-ranging body of work, spanning a number of genres, is seen as a varied and significant contribution to Indian English literature, as well as World literature as a whole.