A. K. Ramanujan - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

His works include translations from Classical Tamil and Medieval Kannada, such as:

Translations and studies of literature

• The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology, 1967
• Speaking of Siva, Penguin. 1973. ISBN 9780140442700.
• The Literatures of India. Edited with Edwin Gerow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974
• Hymns for the Drowning, 1981
• Poems of Love and War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985
• Folktales from India, Oral Tales from Twenty Indian Languages, 1991
• "Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?" in India Through Hindu Categories, edited by McKim Marriot, 1990
• When God Is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others (with Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman), 1994
• A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India, 1997

Poetry, fiction and drama

• The Striders. London: Oxford University Press, 1966
• Hokkulalli Huvilla, No Lotus in the Navel. Dharwar, 1969
• Relations. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1971
• Selected Poems. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1976
• Samskara. (translation of U R Ananthamurthy's novel) Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1976
• Mattu Itara Padyagalu and Other Poems. Dharwar, 1977
• Second Sight. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986

A.K. Ramanujan's three books of Kannada Poetry, and a novella have been translated into English, and published by Oxford University Press. Poems And A Novella: Translated From Kannada(Hardcover - 2006-03-09)by A. K. Ramanujan (Author), Tonse N. K. Raju (Translator), Shouri Daniels-ramanujan (Translator). This collection has his poetry collections: 1) Hokkulalli Hoovilla (No Lotus in the Navel); 2) Mattu itara kategalU (And Other Poems); and 3) Kuntobille (Hopscotch). The novella in Kannada is titled "Mattobbana Atma Charitre" ((Yet) Another Man's Autobiography).