Timeline Sunday 13 May 2001

Events on Sunday 13 May 2001 2

• 1906 – 2001 R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) Died 13 May 2001, aged 94 Narayan was one of the first Indian writers in English to reach a global readership, setting his gentle, ironic novels and stories in the fictional town of Malgudi. Works such as The Guide and Swami and Friends drew admirers including Graham Greene. He wrote steadily for more than sixty years.
• 2001 Silvio Berlusconi returns as Prime Minister of Italy Media magnate's coalition wins the election Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition won the Italian general election of 13 May 2001, returning him to the premiership he had briefly held in 1994. He went on to lead the longest-serving government of the postwar republic. His business interests and legal troubles dominated Italian politics for a decade.