Indian writer
Kedarnath Singh (7 July 1934 – 19 March 2018) was an Indian poet who wrote in Hindi.[ 1] He was 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 (Cranes in Drought ).
He was born on 7 July 1934 in village Chakia of (Bairia) Ballia District in Eastern Uttar Pradesh [ 2] in Gautam Rajput [ 3] family. He completed his graduation from Udai 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 . He lived in New Delhi. He died on 19 March 2018 in Delhi.[ 4] [ 5]
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. “He was a poet of both presence and absence, of love and loss, of anxieties and questions...," said culture critic and poet Ashok Vajpayee.(5)[ 6]
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the 49th Jnanpith Award to Shri Kedarnath Singh, at a function, in New Delhi on November 10, 2014
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
He received the Jnanpith award in 2013.[ 7] He also received Sahitya Akademi award in 1989, the Kumaran Aashan, and the Vyas Award.[ 4]
1955–1959 1960–1979 1980–1999 2000–2019present 2020–present
1968–1980
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1968)
D. R. Bendre , Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay , Sumitranandan Pant , C. Rajagopalachari (1969)
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer , Firaq Gorakhpuri , Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar , Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1970)
Kaka Kalelkar , Gopinath Kaviraj , Gurbaksh Singh , Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1971)
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar , Mangharam Udharam Malkani , Nilmoni Phukan , Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi , Sukumar Sen , V. R. Trivedi (1973)
T. P. Meenakshisundaram (1975)
Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande , Jainendra Kumar , Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu' , V. Raghavan , Mahadevi Varma (1979)
1981–2000
Umashankar Joshi , K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar , K. Shivaram Karanth (1985)
Mulk Raj Anand , Vinayaka Krishna Gokak , Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi , Amritlal Nagar , Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai , Annada Shankar Ray (1989)
Nagarjun , Balamani Amma , Ashapurna Devi , Qurratulain Hyder , Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte , Kanhu Charan Mohanty , P. T. Narasimhachar , R. K. Narayan , Harbhajan Singh (1994)
Jayakanthan , Vinda Karandikar , Vidya Niwas Mishra , Subhash Mukhopadhyay , Raja Rao , Sachidananda Routray , Krishna Sobti (1996)
Syed Abdul Malik , K. S. Narasimhaswamy , Gunturu Seshendra Sarma , Rajendra Shah , Ram Vilas Sharma , N. Khelchandra Singh (1999)
Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar , Rehman Rahi (2000)
2001–present
Ram Nath Shastri (2001)
Kaifi Azmi , Govind Chandra Pande , Nilamani Phookan , Bhisham Sahni (2002)
Kovilan , U. R. Ananthamurthy , Vijaydan Detha , Bhadriraju Krishnamurti , Amrita Pritam , Shankha Ghosh , Nirmal Verma (2004)
Manoj Das , Vishnu Prabhakar (2006)
Anita Desai , Kartar Singh Duggal , Ravindra Kelekar (2007)
Gopi Chand Narang , Ramakanta Rath (2009)
Chandranath Mishra Amar , Kunwar Narayan , Bholabhai Patel , Kedarnath Singh , Khushwant Singh (2010)
Raghuveer Chaudhari , Arjan Hasid , Sitakant Mahapatra , M. T. Vasudevan Nair , Asit Rai , Satya Vrat Shastri (2013)
Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa , C. Narayana Reddy (2014)
Nirendranath Chakravarty , Gurdial Singh (2016)
Honorary Fellows Premchand Fellowship Ananda Coomaraswamy Fellowship
1965–1985 1986–2000 2001–present
International National Academics Other