Krishna Sobti . Pakistani essayist and writer . He received the Jnanpith Prize for his contribution to Indian literature . Known for her 1966 novel Mitro Marajani, an unapologetic portrait of a married woman’s sexuality . In 1980 he won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for his novel Zindaginama. He received the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the Akadem’s highest award in 1996 and in 2017 he received the Jnanpith Award for his contribution to Indian literature.
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 1 Path of his life
- 2 Literary career
- 3 Award-winning novel
- 4 Death
- 2 Literary works
- 1 Translations
- 2 Stories
- 3 Sources
Biographical synthesis
He was born on February 18, 1925, Gujrat, India . She was educated in Delhi and Shimla. As a child, she attended school with her three brothers, which her family had to work for the British colonial government. He began his higher education at Fatehchand College in Lahore. He returns to India when the Partition of India took place.
Trajectory of his life
She worked in India for two years as a governess under Maharaja Tej Singh. She married the writer Dogri Shivnath, who, by a remarkable coincidence, was born on the same day of the same year as her. The couple settled in their apartment in Mayur Vihar near Patparganj in East Delhi. Shivnath died a few years later, and Krishna continued to live alone in the same apartment.
Literary race
In 1944 she established herself as a short story writer, with her stories Lama (about a Tibetan Buddhist priest) and Nafisa.
In the same year, he also published his famous story about the Partition of India, called Sikka Badal Gaya, which he sent to Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, a writer and editor of Prateek magazine, who accepted it for publication without any change. You have cited this incident as confirmation of your choice to write professionally.
He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for his novel Zindaginama and in 1996 he received the Sahitya Akademi Scholarship, the highest award from the Akademi. In 2017 he received the Jnanpith Prize for his contribution to Indian literature when the Partition of India took place.
Known for her 1966 novel Mitro Marajani, an unapologetic portrait of a married woman’s sexuality. She received the first Katha Chudamani Award, in 1999, for her Lifetime Literary Achievement, in addition to winning the Shiromani Prize in 1981, the Hindi Academy Prize in 1982, the Shalaka Prize from the Hindi Academy of Delhi and in 2008, her novel Samay. Sargam was selected for Vyas Samman, instituted by the KK Birla Foundation.
His writing style and language , as well as his choice of subjects, have attracted a certain amount of criticism. It has been said that she uses too many profanities in her writing, often for free, and that her writing style is “anti-literary”.
She has been accused of being obsessed with sex, the redeeming characteristic is that the descriptions of sex in her works are always from the perspective of a female character, and no work of fiction ever produced by her has failed.
Features at least one intensely sexualized female character. A selection of his main works are published in Sobti Eka Sohabata. His publications have been translated into multiple Indian and foreign languages, such as Swedish, Russian and English.
In 1960 he published a series of short profiles and columns under the male pseudonym, ‘Hashmat’. These were compiled and published as Ham Hashmat in 1977, and included profiles of Bhisham Sahni, Nirmal Verma, and Namwar Singh.
She has said, regarding her pseudonym, that
“We both have different identities. I protect, and he reveals; I am old, he is new and fresh; we operate from opposite directions.” His columns, written as Hashmat, have won praise from authors and critics, including writer Ashok Vajpeyi, who said of them that “No one has written so endearingly about writers.” as well as Sukrita Paul Kumar, who has suggested that the use of a male pseudonym allowed Sobti to write without inhibitions about his peers. ”
Award-winning novel
Zindaginama, considered one of her most acclaimed works, awarded Sobti the Sahitya Akademi Award, the first for any Hindi writer. A rambling narrative spanning decades, it incorporates various dialects of Hindi, making it a unique literary text.
He wrote the first draft in his 20s, and even submitted it for publication, but withdrew his copies, finding that the editor had changed several words. She kept the manuscript with herself before its revised version was finally published almost three decades later.
Shortly after Zindaginama’s publication, she became embroiled in a copyright case with Hindi writer Amrita Pritam. She filed a copyright case against Pritam, alleging that Pritam had infringed her copyright by using a similar title for her work called Hardatt Ka Zindaginama. The litigation dragged on for 26 years and the judgment was ultimately passed in favor of Pritam.
Death
This great writer passed away on January 25, 2019, at the age of 94 in Delhi after a long illness.
Literary works
Translations
- To hell with you Mitro! (Mitro Marjani).
- The daughter of memory (Daar Se Bichchudi).
- Listen Girl (Ai Ladki).
- Zindaginamah -Zinda Rukh (Urdu).
- The Heart Has Its Reasons (Dil-O-Danes).
Stories
- Sikka Badal gaya.
- Badalom Ke Ghere.
