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R.K. Narayan was an Indian writer famous for writing about scenes in a fictional town in South India called Malgudi which he came up with himself. Narayan was born in Madras and he has 7 siblings. His grandmother gave him the nickname Kunjappa. Narayan was an avid reader as a child, he often read the works of Dickens, Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy. R.K. Narayan grew to be a leading author of early Indian literature in English. Some of his short stories about Malgudi were adapted by actor-director Shankar Nag into the television series Malgudi Days. Narayan was happy with the adaptations and complimented the producers for sticking to the storyline from the books.