Kedarnath Singh

Kedar Nath Singh
Kedarnath Singh
Born	(1934-07-07) July 7, 1934 Chakia, Ballia district, Uttar Pradesh
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Poet

Kedarnath Singh (born July 7, 1934) is one of the most prominent modern poets writing Hindi.^[1] He is also an eminent critic and essayist. He was awarded the Jnanpith Award(2013), Sahitya Akademi Award(1989) in Hindi for his poetry collection, Akaal Mein Saras (loose translation into English: Cranes in Drought).

Early life

He was born on 7 July 1934 in village Chakia of Ballia district in eastern Uttar Pradesh.^[2] He completed his graduation from uday pratap college varanasi. He passed M.A from Kashi Hindu Vishwavidyalaya and did his Ph.D from the same University. In Gorakhpur, he spent some time as a Hindi Teacher and went to Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he served as a professor and the head of department of Hindi Language in Indian Languages Center and retired as a professor from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.Today, he lives in saket New Delhi.

Poetic Style

Kedar Nath Singh's poetry is characterized by simple, everyday language and images that string together to convey complex themes. One of his major poems is Bagh, a long poem with the tiger as its central character. Published in the mid 1980s, the poem remains one of the most widely read long poems in Hindi literature and is included in many university curricula. At some level, Bagh bears a striking resemblance to Ted Hughes' Crow, but the two remain independent in their treatment and scope.

Major works

Poem Collection : Abhi Bilkul Abhi, Zameen pak Rahi Hai, Yahan se Dekho, Akaal mein Saaras, Baagh,Tolstoy aur cycle
Essay and Stories : Mere Samay ke Shabd,Kalpana aur chhayavad, Hindi kavita mein bimb vidhan, Kabristan mein Panchayat
Others :Taana Baana

Awards and honours

He received the Jnanpith award in 2013.^[3] He also received Sahitya Akademi award, the Kumaran Aashan, and the Vyas Award.

References

↑ "Kedarnath Singh, 1934". loc.gov. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
↑ http://www.currentbooks.com/renowned-hindi-poet-kedarnath-singh-receives-jnanpith-award-2013.html
↑ "Kedarnath Singh chosen for Jnanpith". The Hindu. 21 June 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2014.

External links

Kedarnath Singh at Kavita Kosh (Hindi)

Recipients of Jnanpith Award

1965–1985	G. Sankara Kurup (1965) Tarashankar Bandopadhyay (1966) Kuppali Venkatappagowda Puttappa, Umashankar Joshi (1967) Sumitranandan Pant (1968) Firaq Gorakhpuri (1969) Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1970) Bishnu Dey (1971) Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' (1972) D. R. Bendre, Gopinath Mohanty (1973) Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1974) P. V. Akilan (1975) Asha Purna Devi (1976) K. Shivaram Karanth (1977) Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1978) Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1979) S. K. Pottekkatt (1980) Amrita Pritam (1981) Mahadevi Varma (1982) Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (1983) Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (1984) Pannalal Patel (1985)

1986–2000	Sachidananda Routray (1986) Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (1987) C. Narayana Reddy (1988) Qurratulain Hyder (1989) V. K. Gokak (1990) Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1991) Naresh Mehta (1992) Sitakant Mahapatra (1993) U. R. Ananthamurthy (1994) M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1995) Mahasweta Devi (1996) Ali Sardar Jafri (1997) Girish Karnad (1998) Gurdial Singh, Nirmal Verma (1999) Indira Goswami (2000)

2001–present	Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (2001) Jayakanthan (2002) Vinda Karandikar (2003) Rehman Rahi (2004) Kunwar Narayan (2005) Ravindra Kelekar, Satya Vrat Shastri (2006) O. N. V. Kurup (2007) Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (2008) Amarkant, Shrilal Shukla (2009) Chandrashekhara Kambara (2010) Pratibha Ray (2011) Ravuri Bharadhwaja (2012) Kedarnath Singh (2013) Bhalchandra Nemade (2014) Raghuveer Chaudhari (2015)

Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi

1955-1959	Makhanlal Chaturvedi (1955) Vasudeva Saran Agrawal (1956) Acharya Narendra Dev (1957) Rahul Sankrityayan (1958) Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' (1959)

1960–1979	Sumitranandan Pant (1960) Bhagwati Charan Verma (1961) Not awarded (1962) Amrit Rai (1963) S. H. V. Agyeya (1964) Nagendra (1965) Jainendra Kumar (1966) Amritlal Nagar (1967) Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1968) Shrilal Shukla (1969) Ram Vilas Sharma (1970) Namwar Singh (1971) Bhawani Prasad Mishra (1972) Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (1973) Shivmangal Singh Suman (1974) Bhisham Sahni (1975) Yashpal (1976) Shamsher Bahadur Singh (1977) Bharat Bhushan Agarwal (1978) Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil' (1979)

1980–1999	Krishna Sobti (1980) Trilochan (1981) Harishankar Parsai (1982) Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena (1983) Raghuvir Sahay (1984) Nirmal Verma (1985) Kedarnath Agarwal (1986) Shrikant Verma (1987) Naresh Mehta (1988) Kedarnath Singh (1989) Shiv Prasad Singh (1990) Girija Kumar Mathur (1991) Giriraj Kishore (1992) Vishnu Prabhakar (1993) Ashok Vajpeyi (1994) Kunwar Narayan (1995) Surendra Verma (1996) Liladhar Jaguri (1997) Arun Kamal (1998) Vinod Kumar Shukla (1999)

2000–present	Manglesh Dabral (2000) Alka Saraogi (2001) Rajesh Joshi (2002) Kamleshwar (2003) Viren Dangwal (2004) Manohar Shyam Joshi (2005) Gyanendrapati (2006) Amarkant (2007) Govind Mishra (2008) Kailash Vajpeyi (2009) Uday Prakash (2010) Kashinath Singh (2011) Chandrakant Devtale (2012) Mridula Garg (2013) Ramesh Chandra Shah (2014) Ramdarash Mishra (2015)

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