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WRITER

Raja Rao

1908 - 2006

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Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American 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 1963. For the entire body of his work, Rao was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1988. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raja Rao has received more than 1,051,103 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Raja Rao is the 6,148th most popular writer (down from 5,457th in 2019), the 896th most popular biography from India (down from 787th in 2019) and the 109th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 18

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Raja Rao ranks 6,148 out of 5,755Before him are William Kamkwamba, Geoff Johns, Anne Waldman, Sherin Khankan, Jérôme Ferrari, and John Stossel. After him are Javier Sicilia, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Peter Pišťanek, Rubén Gallego, Alexandre Jardin, and Maylis de Kerangal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Raja Rao ranks 373Before him are Arthur Goldberg, Jackie Fields, Rufino Santos, Polly Ann Young, Eddie Hapgood, and Gene Raymond. After him are Dennis Morgan, Will Lee, and Penny Singleton. Among people deceased in 2006, Raja Rao ranks 358Before him are Irving Kaplansky, Shekhar Mehta, Ed Bradley, Noor Hassanali, Nadira, and Gernot Jurtin. After him are Surinder Kaur, Elizabeth Allen, Mervyn Wood, Corinne Rey-Bellet, Esther Victoria Abraham, and Mohammed Bijeh.

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In India

Among people born in India, Raja Rao ranks 896 out of 1,493Before him are Ruby Myers (1907), B. R. Chopra (1914), Saroo Brierley (1981), Silk Smitha (1960), S. Jaishankar (1955), and Arijit Singh (1987). After him are Gautam Adani (1962), Reema Lagoo (1958), Farah Khan (1965), Mehboob Khan (1907), Gulshan Kumar (1956), and Rajkumar Hirani (1962).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Raja Rao ranks 109Before him are Ram Swarup (1920), Nayantara Sahgal (1927), Rahat Indori (1950), Rohinton Mistry (1952), Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944), and Saroo Brierley (1981). After him are Kiran Desai (1971), Sarojini Sahoo (1956), Rupi Kaur (1992), Shobhaa De (1948), Aravind Adiga (1974), and Sushmita Banerjee (1964).