What is Kiran Nagarkar?
[[File:Kiran Nagarkar - Leipziger Buchmesse 2013.jpg|right|200px]] '''Kiran Nagarkar''' (1942 &ndash; 5 September 2019) was an Indian novelist, playwright, critic and screenwriter.<ref name=sa>[[#Sa|Sanga, p. 177]]</ref> He was born in [[Mumbai]]. His best known works are ''Saat Sakkam Trechalis'' (tr. ''Seven Sixes Are Forty Three'') (1974), ''Ravan and Eddie'' (1994), and the epic novel, ''[[Cuckold (book)|Cuckold]]'' (1997) for which he was awarded the 2001 [[Sahitya Akademi Award]].<ref name=sa/><ref>[http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10304.htm#english Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955–2007: English] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611080633/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10304.htm|date=11 June 2010}} [[Sahitya Akademi]] Official website.</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=In Conversation: The artful storyteller |url=http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/03/05/stories/2006030500320100.htm |publisher=[[The Hindu]] |date=5 March 2006 |access-date=5 September 2019 |archive-date=14 March 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060314233118/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/03/05/stories/2006030500320100.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Nagarkar died on 5 September, 2019 from a [[cerebral hemorrhage]] in Mumbai at the age of 77.<ref>[https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/kiran-nagarkar-passes-away-77-1596039-2019-09-05 Author Kiran Nagarkar passes away at 77 in Mumbai]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Nagarkar, Kiran}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from cerebral hemorrhage]] [[Category:Indian screenwriters]] [[Category:Indian novelists]] [[Category:Indian playwrights]] [[Category:Indian critics]] [[Category:Writers from Mumbai]] [[Category:Marathi people]] {{bio-stub}}