Chaman Nahal | |
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Born | 1927 Sialkot, India |
Died | 2013 New Delhi, India |
Occupation(s) | writer and professor |
Spouse | Sudarshna Nahal |
Children | Ajanta kohli, Anita Nahal |
Awards | Sahitya 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]
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]
Novels
Work | Publisher | Year |
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My True Faces | Orient | 1973 |
Into Another Dawn | Sterling | 1977 |
The English Queens | Vision | 1979 |
Sunrise in Fiji | Allied | 1988 |
Azadi (Freedom) | Arnold-Heinemann & Boston Houghton Mifflin | 1975 |
The Crest and the Loincloth | Vikas | 1981 |
The Salt of Life | Allied | 1990 |
The Triumph call upon the Tricolour | Allied | 1993 |
The Gandhi Quartet | Allied | 1993 |
Short story collection
Work | Publisher | Year |
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The Unnatural Dance and Other Stories | Arya | 1965 |
Uncollected short stories
Others
Bibliography
In The New Literatures in English, 1985
Critical Studies on Chaman Nahal
Work | Author/editor | Publisher | Year |
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Commonwealth Data in the Curriculum | K.L. Goodwin | University of Queensland Press | 1980 |
Introduction to Picture Crown and the Loincloth | A Komorov | Raduga | 1984 |
Three Contemporary Novelists: Khushwant Singh, Chaman Nahal, and Salman Rushdie | R.K. Dhawan | Classical | 1985 |
Memoir
Work | Publisher | Year |
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Silent Life | Roli Books | 2005 |
Children's novels
Work | Publisher | Year |
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Akela and the Blue Monster | Aruvik & Allied | 2007 |
Akela ride the Asian Tsunami | Aruvik & Allied | 2009 |
Akela and the UFOs | Aruvik & Allied | 2009 |
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]
Award | Year |
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Sahitya Akademi Award | 1977 |
Federation of Asiatic Publishers award | 1977 |
Federation of Indian Publishers award | 1979 |