Call for Papers: Basavraj Naikar

Call for Papers



Basavraj Naikar


Edited By


Dr. Vishwanath Bite


Asst. Professor in English,


MBSK Kanya Mahavidyalaya,Kadegaon.


Tal – Kadegaon Dist. – Sangli. Pin – 415 304


Maharashtra, India.

Basavraj Naikar is a bilingual writer , He has published many translations and critical works likewise he has published several edited anthologies, Research articles and reviews in scholarly books and Journals. His first short story collection entitled ‘The Thief of Nagarhalli and Other Stories’ and it was short listed for the commonwealth fiction prize for the best first book from Eurasia in 2000. His second collection ‘The Rebellious Rani of Belavadi and Other Stories was well received by critics. He has published two novels, first ‘The Sun Behind the Clouds’ is a historical novel. His second novel ‘Light in The House’ is a philosophical novel deals with the life and mission of Sharif Saheb of Shishunala, an epistle of communal harmony between Hindues and Muslims. He has published English Translations like Musings of Sarvajana, Beloved Poems, Fall of kalyana and Sangya Balya: Betrayal.

Scholarly Articles are invited for the proposed book on Basavraj Naikar reflecting Spectrum of ideas and fresh criticism on his works. His works reflects variety of themes like history, politics, Protest, Social Consciousness, Search for identity, Colonial struggle, Betrayal, Loyalty, Power, Religion etc. Contributors are requested to communicate there previously unpublished articles following MLA Style sheet. Articles should be submitted in soft copy via e mail or CD mailer.

Book will be published shortly with Delhi based publisher with ISBN.

Contact Details:-

Dr. Vishwanath Bite

Asst. Professor in English,

MBSK Kanya Mahavidyalaya,Kadegaon.

Tal – Kadegaon Dist. – Sangli. Pin – 415 304

Maharashtra, India.

Mob No. 09423278008

E mail – vishwanathbite@gmail.com

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Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize for literature

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize for literature




Peruvian-born writer and one-time presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, a chronicler of people’s struggles against authority in Latin America, won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday.
The awarding committee said in a statement Mr. Vargas Llosa received the award “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat”.
Mr. Vargas Llosa, who made his international breakthrough with the novel The Time of the Hero in 1966, is the first Latin American winner for literature since Octavio Paz won in 1990.
His works build on his experiences of life in Peru in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Mr. Vargas Llosa ran for president of Peru in 1990 but lost to Alberto Fujimori, who ultimately had to flee the country and was subsequently convicted of various crimes.

Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Nobel committee, said he had telephoned Mr. Vargas Llosa, who was in the United States, with the news.
“He’s actually having a two-month stint there in Princeton teaching, so I was sort of embarrassed for phoning him so early. But he had been up since 5 o’clock preparing a lecture for Princeton. He was elated. He was very, very moved.”
Mr. Englund bubbled over in his praise of the writer.
“He has a number of masterpieces in narration because essentially he’s a narrator, he’s a storyteller. My goodness, what a storyteller!”
Mr. Englund characterised Mr. Vargas Llosa as one of the great authors in the Spanish-speaking world. “He is one of the persons behind the Latin-American literary boom of the ‘60s and ‘70s, and he has continued to work and expand.”
Mr. Vargas Llosa’s works are strewn with figures of power and authority. In The Feast of the Goat, a 49-year-old woman returns to the Dominican Republic, haunted by memories of her childhood when the nation was led by brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo.
The story tells of her efforts to overcome a traumatic past:
“Were you right to come back? You’ll be sorry, Urania… returning to the island you swore you’d never set foot on again…,” he writes.

“To prove to yourself you can walk along the streets of this city that is no longer yours, travel through this foreign country and not have it provoke sadness, nostalgia, hatred, bitterness, rage in you.”
Mr. Vargas Llosa, who has lectured and taught at universities in Latin America, the United States and Europe, is also a noted journalist and essayist, the committee said.

The prize of US$1.5-million was the fourth of this year’s Nobel prizes, following awards for medicine on Monday, physics on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday.

From: © Thomson Reuters 2010 (National Post .com)