The Economist (US), May 26th, 2001
LIKE many young writers, R.K. Narayan found it difficult at first to get his work published. In 1934, after his novel "Swami and Friends" had been rejected by numerous publishers, he sent the manuscript to a friend in Britain who showed it to Graham Greene, a young writer who was doing rather better than Mr Narayan.
Greene opened the folder and read:
Greene read on, and on. He was later to say that the book had something of the "beauty and sadness" of a story by Chekhov. He gently suggested some changes to the Indian's English, and persuaded him to shorten his name from Rasipuram Krishnasw...
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