Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

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Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar (born 1983 in Jharkhand ) is an Indian author . He writes in English and his books have been translated into several Indian languages .

life and work

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar grew up in Jharkhand, where he still lives today. He works as a doctor on behalf of the government. For his first novel, The mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey , which is set in a Santal village , he received the Yuva Puraskar Award from the Sahitya Academy . The novel can be seen as an important milestone in the move away from an undifferentiated representation of indigenous peoples in India. His second book, The Adivasi will not Dance (in English roughly 'The native does not dance') deals again with the situation of the Santal, but it was heavily criticized because of its negative portrayal of living conditions, especially by women and girls, and was at times censored by the state of Jharkhand. In this context, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar also temporarily lost his position in the government. Public protests against this censorship led to its lifting and withdrawal of the author's dismissal. The original criticism of the book came from Santals, it is possibly connected with a conflict over the question of which writing system Santali should be written with. Protests against the book rose shortly after Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar posted on social media about Ol Chiki , the Indian government-approved writing system for Santali. The author himself belongs to the Santal ethnic group.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar also works as a translator of prose and poetry from Santali and Hindi into English .

Publications

  • The Mysterious Ailment Of Rupi Baskey. Novel. Aleph Book Company, New Delhi 2014
  • The Adivasi Will Not Dance. Short stories. Speaking Tiger, New Delhi 2015
  • Jwala Kumar and the Gift of Fire: Adventures in Champakbagh . Children's book. Speaking Tiger, New Delhi 2018
  • My Father's Garden. Novel. Speaking Tiger, New Delhi 2018
  • Who's There? Children's book. Duckbill, Chennai 2020
  • Sumi Budhi and Sugi . Children's book. Pratham Books, Bengaluru 2020

Awards

  • 2014 shortlisted The Hindu Prize and the Crossword Book Award
  • 2015 Yuva Puraskar of the Sahitya Academy , Muse India-Satish Verma Young Writer Award
  • 2016 The Hindu Prize

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey | International DUBLIN Literary Award. Retrieved August 3, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ Amitayu Chakraborty: Problematising 'Indigeneity' through Hansda SowvendraShekhar's The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey . In: Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities . tape 11 , no. 3 , November 2019, p. 1 , doi : 10.21659 / rupkatha.v11n3.19 (English, researchgate.net ).
  3. ↑ The ban shook me: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Sudipta Datta: Who is Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, fighting a ban . In: The Hindu . August 19, 2017, ISSN  0971-751X ( thehindu.com [accessed May 15, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Speaking Tiger Books | Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar. In: Speaking Tiger Books. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar: Injury. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Shekhar, Hansda Sowvendra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian author
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Jharkhand