Vinod Kumar Shukla
He became the first Indian author to receive the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature in 2023.[3] In 2024, he became the first Chhattisgarhi[4] to receive the Jnanpith Award.[5] Life and workHe was born on 1 January 1937 in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh (at the time the princely state of Nangaon, later the state of Madhya Pradesh). His first collection of poems Lagbhag Jai Hind was published in 1971. Vah Aadmi Chala Gaya Naya Garam Coat Pehankar Vichar Ki Tarah was his second collection of poems, published in 1981 by Sambhavna Prakashan. Naukar Ki Kameez[6](The Servant's Shirt) was his first novel, brought out in 1979 by the same publisher. Ped Par Kamra (Room on the Tree), a collection of short stories, was brought out in 1988, and another collection of poems in 1992, Sab Kuch Hona Bacha Rahega. Vinod Kumar Shukla was a guest littérateur at the Nirala Srijanpeeth in AGRA from 1994 to 1996 during which he wrote two novels Khilega To Dekhenge and the refreshing Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi. The latter has been translated into English by Prof. Satti Khanna of Duke University as A Window Lived in a Wall[7](Publisher : Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2005). He was presented an artists' residency by Ektara - Takshila's Centre for Children's Literature & Art where he produced a novel for Young Adults called "Ek Chuppi Jagah".[8] He did his M.Sc. in agriculture from Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya (JNKVV) in Jabalpur whereafter he joined as lecturer in Agriculture College Raipur.[9][10] He was inspired considerably by the poet Muktibodh who was then a lecturer in Hindi at Digvijay College Rajnandgaon where Padumlal Punnalal Bakshi was also working. Baldeo Prasad Mishra was also at Rajnandgaon at the same period. Vinod Kumar Shukla's poems have been widely translated. References
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