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title: "Who was Kiran Nagarkar?"  
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author: "Saddiya  Anwar"  
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# Who was Kiran Nagarkar?

Who was Kiran Nagarkar?

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### Answer by Saddiya  Anwar

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Kiran Nagarkar, the noted writer, died on September 6 aged 77. The novelist, playwright, film and drama critic, and screenwriter both in Marathi and English was one of the most significant writers of the post-colonial India.

Nagarkar had shaken the form of narrative fiction in Marathi in 1974 with a novel called Saat Sakkam Trechalis, or Seven Sixes are Fourty-Three. It was a story taking one beyond logic, grammar and reason because life itself was absurd. [Nagarkar](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/92762/writer-about-manohar-parrikar) gained renown through a marvellous trilogy- Ravan And Eddie (1994), followed by The Extras (2012) and Rest In Peace (2015). Set in a chawl, the novel made a bonfire of a religious pomposities.

It was centred on two boys, a Catholic and a Hindu, their adventures. With Cuckold (1997), he established his reputation as one of India's great's.


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