Mulk Raj Anand, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mulk Raj Anand

Indian English writer

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1905

Place of Birth: Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Date of Death: 28-Sep-2004

Profession: writer, journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society.
One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, together with R.
K.
Narayan, Ahmad Ali and Raja Rao, was one of the first India-based writers in English to gain an International readership.
Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of classics of modern Indian English literature; they are noted for their perceptive insight into the lives of the oppressed and for their analysis of impoverishment, exploitation and misfortune.
He is also noted for being among the first writers to incorporate Punjabi and Hindustani idioms into English, and was a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.