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• Mulk Raj Anand was a part of the inception of early Indian English Literature along with R.K Narayan, Raja Rao, and Ahmed Ali.
• Wrote about the marginalized, deprived, and poorer sections of traditional Indian society.
• His first essay was a response to the suicide of his aunt who was excommunicated from the family because she shared a meal with a Muslim woman.
• The introduction to his work “The Untouchable” 1935, his first novel was written by Edward Morgan Forster.
• George Orwell wrote a notable review for his “The Sword and the Sickle” (1942).
• Anand became famous for translating Punjabi and Hindi idioms into English and was called as the Balzac or Zola for doing so.
• He spent half of his life in London and half in India.
• He returned to India in 1946.
• Published a literary magazine “Marg” in 1946.
• Began writing his seven-part long autobiographical trilogy work (1950) from which Morning Face won the Sahitya Akademi Award.
• In 1952, he won The International Peace for Noble Peace.
• He called himself the bogus professor.
• Known among the Founding Fathers of Indian English Literature.
Sources:
1. World Literature in Your Fist by Prem Shankar Pandey.
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