Vinod Kumar Shukla
Vinod Kumar Shukla (born 1 January 1937) is a modern Hindi writer known for his style that often borders on magic-realism. His works include the novels Naukar ki Kameez (which has been made into the film of the same name by Mani Kaul) and Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi (A Window lived in a Wall), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the best Hindi work in 1999. This novel has been made into a stage play by theatre director Mohan Maharishi.
Life and work
He 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[1](The Servant's Shirt) was his first novel, brought out in 1979 by the same publisher. Per 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[2](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".[3]
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.[citation needed] He was inspired considerably by the poet Muktibodh who was then a lecturer in Hindi at Digvijay College Rajnandgaon where Padumlal Punnalal Buxy was also working. Baldeo Prasad Mishra was also at Rajnandgaon at the same period.
Vinod Kumar Shukla's poems have been widely translated. In 2015, Delhi-based author Akhil Katyal translated Shukla's 'Hatasha se ek vyakti baith gaya' into English:
Desperate, a man sat down,
I didn't know him,
I knew desperation,
so I went close to him
and reached out my hand –
holding it, he stood up,
he didn't know me, he knew
my reaching out the hand,
from there, we walked together,
neither of us knew the other –
both knew walking together.
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- Makhanlal Chaturvedi (1955)
- Vasudeva Saran Agrawal (1956)
- Acharya Narendra Dev (1957)
- Rahul Sankrityayan (1958)
- Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' (1959)
- 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)
- Namvar 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)
- 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)
- Leeladhar Jagudi (1997)
- Arun Kamal (1998)
- Vinod Kumar Shukla (1999)
- 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)
- Nasira Sharma (2016)
- Ramesh Kuntal Megh (2017)
- Chitra Mudgal (2018)
- Nand Kishore Acharya (2019)
- Anamika (2020)
- Daya Prakash Sinha (2021)
- Badri Narayan (2022)
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