Vilas Sarang

Vilas Sarang

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  • Vilas Sarang
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  • Reba Dasgupta

Vilas Sarang Biography

Vilas Sarang is a noted writer, critic and translator post Indian independence. He has written many short stories, poems, literary criticism works and novel. His stories have appeared not only in Indian magazines and newspapers, but also in UK, US and Canada Journals, of which Encounter, The London Magazine, TriQuarterly and The Malahat Review. He has published one English short story collection named Fair Tree of the Void and two novels, In the Land of Enki and The Dinosaur Ship.

 

Sarang was born in 1942 in Karwar, a coastal town in Karnataka as the youngest son of a magistrate. He learnt Marathi at school and later studied at Elphinstone College, Mumbai. He obtained a doctorate in English Literature from Bombay University and in 1974 he obtained his second doctorate from Bloomington, Indiana. His second doctorate was for Comparative Literature under the direction of Professor Breon Mitchell. Then he worked as English professor at University of Basrah and Mumbai University. He was the head of English Department of Mumbai University during the period 1988 to 1991. He has also served as editor of The Bombay Literary Review during this time. He taught at Kuwait University during the period 1991-2002.

 

In 1982 he got married to Reba Dasgupta, of Bengali origin and had two kids. In 2002, he became the editor of literary journal called The Post Post Review, a post that he holds till now. His most noted English books include - Tandoor Cinders (2008), Women In Cages (2006), The Dinosaur Ship (2005), A Fair Tree of the Void (1990), A Kind of Silence (1978) and In the Land of Enki. Atang, Soledad and Rudr are a few of his Marathi books. Published stories and articles in both Marathi and English, he calls himself as “a bilingual writer”.

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Updated: January 29, 2014

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