ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture.

Detailed explanation-2: -The pen name “Saki” is a reference to the cupbearer in the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam. Both Rothay Reynolds and Ethel Munro confirm this. Emlyn Williams states as much in his introduction to a Saki anthology published in 1978.

Detailed explanation-3: -After acting as foreign correspondent for The Morning Post in the Balkans, Russia, and Paris, in 1908 he settled in London, writing short stories and sketches: Reginald (1904), Reginald in Russia (1910), The Chronicles of Clovis (1912), and Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914).

Detailed explanation-4: -H.H. Munro, also known as Saki. Hector Hugh Munro, better known as H.H. Munro or by his pen name, Saki, was born in Burma in 1870. Two years after his birth, Munro’s mother went on a trip to England, where she was charged by a cow.

Detailed explanation-5: -Saki (Hector Hugh Munro, 1870-1916) was raised by his strict, dour aunts and grandmother, and was gay but closeted all his life – for good reason, since homosexual acts between men were still illegal. He died in his 40s in the first world war.