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* Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop (Novel, 1975)<ref name="Us Salam 2010">{{cite news |last1=Us Salam |first1=Ziya |title=‘I am a loner' |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/lsquoI-am-a-loner/article16837790.ece |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=The Hindu |date=January 16, 2010}}</ref>
* Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop (Novel, 1975)<ref name="Us Salam 2010">{{cite news |last1=Us Salam |first1=Ziya |title=‘I am a loner' |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/lsquoI-am-a-loner/article16837790.ece |access-date=21 June 2021 |work=The Hindu |date=January 16, 2010}}</ref>
* Vanshaj (Novel, 1976)
* Vanshaj (Novel, 1976)
* Chittacobra (Novel, 1979)
* Chittacobra (Novel, 1979)<ref name="Us Salam 2010" />
* Anitya (Novel, 1980)
* Anitya (Novel, 1980)<ref name="Us Salam 2010" />
* Main Aur Main (Novel, 1984)
* Main Aur Main (Novel, 1984)
* Kath Gulab (Novel, 1996)
* Kath Gulab (Novel, 1996)

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Mridula Garg
Born1938
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
LanguageHindi, English
NationalityIndian
GenresShort Story, Novel
Notable works
  • Miljul Man (2013)
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award (2013)

Mridula Garg (b. 1938) is an Indian writer who writes in Hindi and English languages.[1][2] She has published over 30 books in Hindi – novels, short story collections, plays and collections of essays – of which she has rendered three into English.[3] She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.[4][5]

Biography

Garg was raised in Delhi by her parents with six sisters, and began writing stories while she was a child/[6] She completed her Masters in Economics in 1960 and taught economics in Delhi University for three years.

She has been a columnist, writing on environment, women issues, child servitude and literature. She wrote a fortnightly column, Parivar in Ravivar magazine from Kolkata for five years between 1985-1990 and another column Kataksh (Satire) in India Today (Hindi) for 7 years, between 2003 and 2010. Her novels and stories have been translated into a number of Indian and foreign languages like German, Czech, Japanese and English.[5]

She was a research associate at the Center for South Asian Studies in the University of California-Berkeley, USA in April 1990.[citation needed] She has been invited to speak on Hindi literature and criticism, and discrimination against women, at universities and conferences in erstwhile Yugoslavia (1988), the USA (1990 and 1991), and was a delegate to Interlit-3, Germany(1993). She was invited to and Japan (2003), Italy (2011), Denmark and Russia (2012). She traveled widely and lectured and read from her works there.

Bibliography

Hindi

  • Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop (Novel, 1975)[6]
  • Vanshaj (Novel, 1976)
  • Chittacobra (Novel, 1979)[6]
  • Anitya (Novel, 1980)[6]
  • Main Aur Main (Novel, 1984)
  • Kath Gulab (Novel, 1996)
  • Miljul Mann (novel 2010)
  • Vasu ka Kutum (Long story 2016)
  • Kitni Qaiden (Short Stories, 1975)
  • Tukra-Tukra Aadmi (Short Stories, 1976)
  • Daffodil Jal Rahein Hain (Short Stories, 1978)
  • Glacier Se (Short Stories, 1980)
  • Urf Sam (Short Stories, 1986)
  • Shahar Ke Naam (Short Stories, 1990)
  • Charchit Kahanaian (Short Stories, 1993)
  • Samagam (Short Stories, 1996)
  • Mere Desh Ki Mitti, Aha (Short Stories, 2001)
  • Sangati-Visangti (in 2 Vol.) (Short Stories, 2004)
  • Joote ka Jodh Gobhi ka Todh (Short Stories, 2006)
  • Ek Aur Ajnabi (Play, 1978)
  • Jadoo Ka Kaleen (Play, 1993)
  • Teen Qaiden (Plays, 1995)
  • Saam Daam Dand Bhed (Play for children, 2003)
  • Rang-Dhang (Essays, 1995)
  • Chukte Nahin Sawaal (Essays, 1999)
  • Kuchh Atke Kuchh Bhatke (Yatra Samsaran, Essays, 1996)
  • Kar Lenge Sab Hazam (Satirical Essays)
  • Miljul Mann (Novel, 2009)[4]
  • Kriti Aur Kritikar(essays, 2013)
  • Mere Sang ki Aurten (short story, 2013)
  • Kriti Men Stree patr (critical essays, 2010)

English

  • Chittacobra (Novel, translated from Hindi, Chittacobra, 1999)
  • A Touch of Sun (Novel, translated from Hindi, Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop, 1978)
  • Country of Goodbyes (Novel, translated from Hindi, Kathgulab, 2003)
  • Daffodils on Fire (Short Stories, 1990)
  • Anitya Halfway to Nowhere (novel, translated from Hindi, Anitya 2010)[6]
  • The Last Email (novel originally in English, 2017)[3]

Translations

  • Anitya translated into Marathi from Anitya(Hindi) 2014
  • Kathgulab translated into Marathi (2008) and Malayalam (2010)[7]
  • Main Aur Main translated into Marathi (2016) from Hindi.
  • Miljul Mann translated into Urdu (2016), Punjabi (2017), Tamil (2018), Telugu (2018) and Rajasthani (2018) from Hindi language.

Awards

  • Sahityakar Sanman, by the Hindi Academy, Delhi, (1988)
  • Sahitya Bhushan, by the U.P. Hindi Sansthan (1999)
  • Hellman-Hammet Grant for Courageous Writing by the Human Rights Watch, New York (2001)
  • Honored for lifetime contribution to literature in the Vishwa Hindi Sammelan in Suriname in 2003.
  • Vyas Sanman, for an outstanding work of fiction in Hindi for Kathgulab (2004)
  • Uske Hisse ki Dhoop (novel) and Jadoo Ka Kaleen (Play) awarded by the M.P. Sahitya Parishad in 1975 and 1993 respectively.
  • Miljul Mann (novel) awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2013[8]
  • Ram Manohar Lohia Samman from U.P Hindi Sansthan (2016)
  • D. Litt. "Honoris Causa" from ITM University, Gwalior (2016)

References

  1. ^ "AGNI Online: Author Mridula Garg". Archived from the original on 8 July 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  2. ^ Oxford University Press: Anitya: Mridula Garg
  3. ^ a b "Women are far more fearless in love: Mridula Garg". Times of India. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b Daftaur, Swati (25 December 2013). "A matter of taste". The Hindu. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Exclusive: 'I talk to myself in time of Corona' by Mridula Garg". Times of India. 1 August 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d e Us Salam, Ziya (16 January 2010). "'I am a loner'". The Hindu. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  7. ^ "For Continuing Debate". www.phalanx.in. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  8. ^ "Poets dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2013" Archived 19 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Sahitya Akademi. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013.

External links

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