Krishna Baldev Vaid
Krishna Baldev Vaid (* 1927 in Dinga , British India , † 6. February 2020 in New York City ) was an Indian Hindi - writer , university professor and literary translators .
Life
Vaid was born in 1927 in Dinga in what is now Pakistan . In 1947 the family fled to New Delhi in the course of the partition of India . In 1949 he received his Masters in English Literature from Panjab University in Chandigarh . His PhD from Harvard University , funded by a Fulbright scholarship , was Technique in the Tales of Henry James (published 1964 by Harvard University Press ).
From 1966 to 1985 he taught at the University of Delhi , Panjab University , Brandeis University and the State University of New York . His main focus, however, was on his work as a writer and there on the subject of alienation . Vaid lived alternately in the United States and the Indian continent and was a connoisseur of the culture of the Indian and Western worlds. In the 1980s he was the leader of a group of writers from the Indian avant-garde around the "Bharat Bhavan" in Bhopal . He has written forty books that have been translated into English , French and Japanese , among others . In 2012 Vaid's first book was published in German .
He was married to the painter and poet Champa Vaid . After his retirement in 1985 he returned to India and worked there on the Hindi translations of the works of Samuel Beckett , Lewis Carroll and Jean Racine .
Works in German
- A maid's diary . Translated from the Hindi. by Anna Petersdorf. Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-937603-65-0 ; as TB: Unionsverlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-293-20647-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ In Memoriam: Krishna Baldev Vaid, Hindi Fiction Writer and Playwright , archipelagobooks.org, February 6, 2020, accessed February 12, 2020.
- ↑ Noted Hindi writer Krishna Baldev Vaid dies at 93. Retrieved February 12, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Annie Montaut: Disparitions: Krishna Baldev Vaid - Écrivain indien . In: Le Monde . No. 76/23366 . Paris February 24, 2020, p. 23 .
- ↑ Champa Vaid - Conversations, a painting retrospective - Art Market Provincetown (PDF; 454 kB), accessed on October 29, 2012
Web links
- Literature by and about Krishna Baldev Vaid in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Krishna Baldev Vaid in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Diwan Das Büchermagazin in Bayern 2 broadcast on October 27, 2012, accessed on October 28, 2012
- hindiadi.wordpress.com Krishna Baldev Vaid (French)
- The Curator of Darkness
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vaid, Krishna Baldev |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dinga , British India |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 2020 |
| Place of death | New York City |