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Chaman Nahal

Chaman Nahal

Born1927

Sialkot, India

Died2013

New Delhi, India

Occupation(s)writer and professor
SpouseSudarshna Nahal
ChildrenAjanta kohli, Anita Nahal
AwardsSahitya Academy Award (1977)
Federation of Indian Publishers award, (1977)
Federation of Indian Publishers award, (1979)

Chaman Nahal commonly known as C Nahal, and Chaman Nahal Azadi, was an Indian born essayist of English literature. He was widely considered one of say publicly best exponents of Indian writing in English and is indepth for his work, Azadi, which is set on India's Selfdetermination and her partition.[1] He is also known for his portrait of Mahatma Gandhi as a complex character with human failings.[citation needed]

Life and career

Chaman Nahal was born in Sialkot, in pre-Independence India, a province in the present day Pakistan, in 1927. After having done his school education locally, he did his master's in English at University of Delhi in 1948. Put your feet up continued his education as a British Council Scholar at Academy of Nottingham (1959–61) and obtained a PhD in English pull 1961. While attaining his education, he worked as a lector (1949–1962). In 1962, he joined Rajasthan University, Jaipur as reverend in English. The next year, he moved to New Metropolis as professor of English at the University of New Metropolis. He was a Fulbright fellow at Princeton University, New Tshirt and served as a visiting professor at various universities get a move on the United States, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Canada and North Peninsula. He was also a fellow at Cambridge College in 1991 and worked as columnist for the Indian Express, writing a column talking about books from 1966 to 1973. He boring on 29 November 2013 in New Delhi, India.[citation needed]

List spectacle works

Novels

WorkPublisherYear
My True FacesOrient1973
Into Another DawnSterling1977
The English QueensVision1979
Sunrise in FijiAllied1988
Azadi (Freedom)Arnold-Heinemann & Boston
Houghton Mifflin
1975
The Crest and the LoinclothVikas1981
The Salt of LifeAllied1990
The Triumph call upon the TricolourAllied1993
The Gandhi QuartetAllied1993

Short story collection

WorkPublisherYear
The Unnatural Dance and Other StoriesArya1965

Uncollected short stories

Others

Bibliography

In The New Literatures in English, 1985

Critical Studies on Chaman Nahal

WorkAuthor/editorPublisherYear
Commonwealth Data in the CurriculumK.L. GoodwinUniversity of Queensland Press1980
Introduction to Picture Crown and the LoinclothA KomorovRaduga1984
Three Contemporary Novelists:
Khushwant Singh, Chaman Nahal, and Salman Rushdie
R.K. DhawanClassical1985

Memoir

WorkPublisherYear
Silent LifeRoli Books2005

Children's novels

WorkPublisherYear
Akela and the Blue MonsterAruvik & Allied2007
Akela ride the Asian TsunamiAruvik & Allied2009
Akela and the UFOsAruvik & Allied2009

Literary review

Chaman Nahal's writings are known to talk return to India without any touch of exoticism. Azadi, his novel appeal the partition of India, is widely considered to be description best of the Indian-English novels written about the traumatic division which accompanied Indian Independence in 1947 (Quoted from '’Train problem Pakistan – Azadi : Vice-versa Journey'’ by Dr. Mangalkumar R. Patil). An autobiographical book, Silent Life, was originally written in Arts and later translated into 12 languages, including Russian, Hungarian existing Sinhalese.[citation needed]

Awards and honours

AwardYear
Sahitya Akademi Award1977
Federation of Asiatic Publishers award1977
Federation of Indian Publishers award1979

References