A. K. Ramanujan
A. K. Ramanujan | |
|---|---|
| Born | Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan 16 March 1929 |
| Died | 13 July 1993 (aged 64) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Spouse | Molly Daniels |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship, Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma Shree |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Mysore Indiana University |
| Thesis | A Generative Grammar Of Kannada (1963) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Dravidian linguistics and Indian literature; English poetry |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Notable works | The Striders (1966) Second Sight |
Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993) was an Indian poet and scholar of Indian literature and linguistics. Ramanujan was also a professor of Linguistics at University of Chicago.
Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, linguist, philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright. His academic research ranged across five languages: English, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Sanskrit. He published works on both classical and modern variants of this literature and argued strongly for giving local, non-standard dialects their due. Though he wrote widely and in a number of genres, Ramanujan's poems are remembered as enigmatic works of startling originality, sophistication and moving artistry. He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award posthumously in 1999 for The Collected Poems.