Enigmatic works of startling originality, sophistication and moving artistry. Poet, scholar, philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright. 

A native of Mysore, India, Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan grew up during the latter part of English rule in India, exposing him to the languages that would form his life`s work as a poet and translator. Ramanujan`s work reveals that cultural tradition in India is a conflict between the colonial English identity of the country as well as its historic and post-colonial ethnic identities. His work, a mixture of the complex languages of which he was a master, is a production of flowing, metaphoric syntax and extremely concentrated composition.

	A native of Mysore, India, Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan grew up during the latter part of English rule in India, exposing him to the languages that would form his life`s work as a poet and translator. Ramanujan`s work reveals that cultural tradition in India is a conflict between the colonial English identity of the country as well as its historic and post-colonial ethnic identities. His work, a mixture of the complex languages of which he was a master, mingle in his work to produce flowing, metaphoric syntax and extremely concentrated composition.

	His father was a mathematics professor at the University of Mysore, where A.K. would later be educated. Ramanujan also attended Deccan college and attended Indiana University for graduate studies; he remained in the United States to teach at the University of Chicago in 1961. He recieved awards such as the MacArthur Fellowship and also India`s Padma Shri for distinguished service to the nation of India.