A. K. Ramanujan

A. K. Ramanujan
ಎ.ಕೆ.ರಾಮಾನುಜನ್
Born	Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (1929-03-16)16 March 1929 Mysore, Kingdom of Mysore, British India
Died	13 July 1993(1993-07-13) (aged 64) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	Indian
Awards	MacArthur Fellowship, Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma Shree
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Mysore Indiana University
Thesis	A Generative Grammar Of Kannada (1963)
Academic work
Discipline	Dravidian linguistics and Indian literature; English poetry
Institutions	University of Chicago
Notable works	The Striders (1966) Second Sight

Attipate Krishnaswami Ramanujan (16 March 1929 – 13 July 1993)^[1][2] was an Indian poet and scholar^[3] of Indian literature and linguistics. Ramanujan was also a professor of Linguistics at University of Chicago.

Ramanujan was a poet, scholar, linguist, philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright.^[4] His academic research ranged across five languages: English, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Sanskrit. He published works on both classical and modern variants of this literature and argued strongly for giving local, non-standard dialects their due. Though he wrote widely and in a number of genres, Ramanujan's poems are remembered as enigmatic works of startling originality, sophistication and moving artistry. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award posthumously in 1999 for The Collected Poems.