Upendranath Ashk
Upendranath Ashk ( Hindi : उपेन्द्रनाथ अश्क, Upendranāth Aśk; born December 14, 1910 in Jalandhar , Punjab ; † January 19, 1996 ) was an Indian writer, journalist and publisher who wrote first in Urdu and from the 1930s in Hindi. He left behind an extensive and varied body of work that made him one of the most important contemporary authors of Hindu literature.
life and work
Ashk comes from the middle class. He published his first poem in Urdu in 1926. While living in Lahore , his first collection of short stories appeared in Hindi: Judai Ki Sham Ke Geet , 1933. Ashk writes for various newspapers and magazines. From 1941 to 1945 he worked for All India Radio . While living in Bombay , he also writes scripts and dialogue for the film, as well as translations into Hindi, including works by Dostoevsky and O'Neill . He later moved to the Hindu heart region of Allahabad and founded the Nilabh Prakashan publishing house there . In 1965 Ashk received the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Award as a leading Hindu playwright . According to the Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature , Ashk works as a playwright with satirical means, precise characterization and state-of-the-art stage technology. Regarding his “uninhibited” and “expressively” written novels, it says that after a rather imaginative and romantic beginning, Ashk exposes the “inferno” of middle-class life and striving with its well-known longings and exaggerations. His characters are now real human beings. Ashk devoted himself particularly to the problems of Indian women and youth, while his novels Girti Divaren (1947) and Garm Rakh (1952) deal with the Indian petty bourgeoisie.
Works (selection)
prose
- Judai Ki Sham Ke Git (जुदाई की शाम के गीत) , 1933
- Sitaron Ke Khel (सितारो के खेल) , 1937
- Girti Divaren (गिरती दीवारे) (Vol. I of a trilogy of novels), 1947
- Kale Sahab (काले साहब) , 1950
- Garm Rakh (गर्मराख) , 1952
- Bari-Bari Ankhen , 1954
- Shahar Men Ghumta Aina (शहर में घूमता आइना) (Vol. II), 1962
- Ek Nanhi Kindil (Vol. III), 1969
Dramas
- Jay Parajay (जयपराजय) , 1937
- Swarga Ki Jhalak (स्वर्ग की झलक) , 1938
- Lakshmi ka swagath , 1941-43
- Qaid , 1943-45
- Uraan , 1943-45
- Alag-Alag Raste , 1944–53
- Chatha Beta , 1948
- Anjo Didi , 1953-54
Poetry
- Dip Jalega (दीप जलेगा) , 1950
- Chandni Rat-Aur-Ajgar , 1952
literature
- Romesh K. Shonek: Upendra Nath Ashk: A brief biography and the theme of society and self in his semi-autobiographical triology , 1978
- Diana Dimitrova: Upendranāth Aśk's dramatic work: women and gender in modern Hindi drama as revealed in the plays of Upendranāth Aśk , Heidelberg 2000 (Hochschulschrift)
- Diana Dimitrova: Western tradition and naturalistic Hindi theater , New York, Ffm u. a. 2004 (long)
- Daisy Rockwell: Upendranath Ashk: a critical biography , New Delhi 2004
- Entry on "Aschk, Upendranath" in Meyers Taschenlexikon: Fremdsprachige writers , Gerhard Steiner (Hrsg.), VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1980
Individual evidence
- ↑ Diana Dimitrova: Western tradition and naturalistic Hindi theater (page 40)
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Quoted from this website , accessed on December 21, 2010.
- ^ Meyers Taschenlexikon: Fremdsprachige writers , Gerhard Steiner (ed.), VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1980, p. 60
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ashk, Upendranath |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | अश्क, उपेन्द्रनाथ (hindi); Aśk, Upendranāth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian writer, journalist and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jalandhar , Punjab |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1996 |