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Kiran Nagarkar

KIRAN NAGARKAR  (1942 - )

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Kiran Nagarkar is a bilingual novelist and playwright; a film, theatre, literary and social critic. His novels include Saat Sakkam Trechalis, which is considered a landmark in Marathi literature and according to some critics, it reinvented Marathi. It was translated into English as Seven Sixes Are Forty-three. His other novels are all in English: Ravan and Eddie, Cuckold, Gods Little Soldier and The Extras. Nagarkars novels have been translated into Marathi, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Cuckold won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Best Novel (2000). In a recent survey of its members conducted by Litprom (the highly-regarded German Society for the Promotion of African, Asian and Latin American Literature), Kiran Nagarkar ranked 12th in the list of The Best 30 authors, along with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie. Nagarkars novel Gods Little Soldier was included in Litproms 30 Best Books list.

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below is a list of Kiran Nagarkar's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bedtime Story         Kabirache Kay Karayche         Stranger Amongst Us

Bedtime Story

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A Nazi war criminal narrates the Mahabarata while lurking enforcers terrorise the audience. Provocative Dramaturgy makes Indian mythology force you into thinking critically. A non-Indian cast brings you theatre that was banned in India for 17 years.

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In 1978, Nagarkar wrote the play Bedtime Story, based partly on the Mahabharata. Its performance was extra-legally banned for 17 years by fundamentalist parties, including the Shiv Sena. Due to problems with state censorship as well as religiously motivated restrictions that prevailed over the cultural scene, the play was not staged until 1995.

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C cubed, Edinburgh Festival (UK Premiere)    Aug 2003

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Kabirache Kay Karayche

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Stranger Amongst Us

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