Rajagopal.Parthasarathy (born 1934) is an Indian poet,

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, critic, and editor.

Early life and education

Rajagopal Parthasarathy was born on 20 August 1934 in Tirupparaiturai near

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. He was educated at Don Bosco High School and Siddharth College,

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and at

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, UK, where he was British Council Scholar in 1963–64. He earned a PhD from the

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in 1987.

Career

Parthasarathy was lecturer in English Literature in

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for ten years before joining Oxford University Press in 1971 as Regional Editor in

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. He moved to

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in 1978. He is Associate Professor of English and Asian Studies at

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, New York, United States . His works include ''Poetry from Leeds'' in 1968, ''Rough Passage'' published by

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in 1977, a long poem ( Preface ''"a book where all poems form part of a single poem, as it were" – R. Parthasarathy'' ) and ''Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets'', edited by him and published by

in 1976. He also translates from Tamil to English. His

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into modern English verse of the fifth-century Tamil epic, ''The Tale of the Anklet: An Epic of South India'' was published by Columbia UP in 1993. It received the

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Translation Prize in 1995 and The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. –

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Book Prize for Translation in 1996. He was also awarded the Ulka Poetry Prize of ''Poetry India'' in 1966. He was a member of the

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Writing Program during 1978–79, and member of the advisory board for English of the

– the National Academy of Letters,

, India.

Awards

The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. – A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation, 1996 for R. Parthasarathy

Books

*''Rough Passage''. (Poetry in English). New Delhi:

, India 1977. *''Poetry from Leeds''.

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, UK 1968.

Editor

*''Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets''. ( Chosen and Edited by R. Parthasarathy ). New Delhi:

, India 1977.

Translations

*''Cilappatikaram of Ilanko Atikal (The Tale of an Anklet): An Epic of South India''. ( Translator – R. Parthasarathy ).

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, USA 1993. *''Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit: An Anthology''. ( Translator – R. Parthasarathy ).

, USA November 2017.

Appearances in the following poetry Anthologies

* ''The Golden Treasure of

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Poetry'' (2008) ed. by Rubana Huq and published by

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* ''A New Book of Indian Poems in English'' (2000) ed. by

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and published by

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and

* ''Ten Twentieth-Century Indian Poets'' (1976) ed. by R. Parthasarathy and published by

References

External links

R. Parthasarathy at Poetry Foundation
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