Narayan Hegde is Professor Emeritus of English at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. He was born in Dodmane village in Uttara Kannada district. After doing his undergraduate and Masters degrees in English at the University of Mysore, he pursued his graduate studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook from where he received a doctorate for his thesis on W B Yeats. As a Senior Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies, he has undertaken translation projects in India. He is a recipient of the Katha Translation Award. He is the editor and translator of Stallion of the Sun and Other Stories by U R Ananthamurthy, published by Penguin India. His translations of the short stories of P Lankesh, Purnachandra Tejasvi, and A K Ramanujan have been included in various anthologies. His most recent translation, a nineteenth century Kannada drama, The Marriage Farce of Iggappa Hegade by Suri Venkatarmana Shastri, appeared in the March-April 2012 issue of Indian Literature, published by the Sahitya Akademi. He is currently part of a team translating the Kumaravyasa Bharata for publication by Harvard University Press in its Murty Classical Library of India series.
