Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan

สถานที่: Mysore

เกิด: 1929

ความตาย: 1993

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A. K. Ramanujan was a poet, translator, folklorist, and philologist born in Mysore, India. He earned degrees at the University of Mysore and Deccan College in Pune and a PhD in linguistics at Indiana University. Ramanujan was a transnational figure who spent much of his life in the United States, where he became a prominent scholar, critic, poet, and translator. He was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was a William E. Colvin Professor in the Departments of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Ramanujan's academic research ranged across five languages: Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, English, and Sanskrit. He wrote primarily in English and often on transcultural themes. Ramanujan's papers, which span 1944-1995, are held at the University of Chicago Library's Special Collections Research Center.