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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --><br />
|name = Kunwar Narayan<br />
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|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1927|9|19}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Faizabad]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2017|11|15|1927|9|19}}<br />
|death_place =<br />
|occupation = [[Poet]] <br />
|nationality = [[India]]n<br />
|awards =Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi (1995)<br />
[[Jnanpith Award]] in 2005<br />
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'''Kunwar Narain''' (19 September 1927 &ndash; 15 November 2017)<ref name=reuters/> was a [[poet]] in [[Indian literature]] in [[Hindi]].<ref name=reuters>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121003112501/http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/10/07/idINIndia-42972720091007 Reuters] Hindi poet Kunwar Narayan wins Jnanpith award, 7 October 2009, Miral Fahmy, retrieved 21 March 2011.</ref> He read and traveled widely and wrote for six decades. He was linked to the [[New Poetry]] movement.<br />
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==Life==<br />
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Born on 19 September 1927, in Faizabad district, Uttar Pradesh<ref name=reuters/> Kunwar Narain passed his [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] examination in [[English Literature]] from [[Lucknow University]] in 1951. Married to Bharati Goenka in 1966, he had a son Apurva, born in 1967.{{Citation needed|date= July 2018}}<br />
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Political leaders [[Narendra Deva]] and [[Acharya Kriplani]] were key literary influences and he gave formative importance to his first visit to [[Europe]], [[Russia]] and [[China]] in 1955 and meetings with [[Nazim Hikmet Ran]], Anton Słonimskie and [[Pablo Neruda]].{{Citation needed|date= July 2018}}<br />
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His translations of the [[French Symbolism|French symbolist]] poets like [[Stéphane Mallarmé|Mallarmé]] and [[Valery]], and then of poets like [[Cavafy]] and [[Borges]], contributed to his poetic developments.{{Citation needed|date= July 2018}} His work covers varied genres—poetry, [[epic poetry]], short stories, [[literary criticism]], translations, essays on world [[film|cinema]], history and [[Indian classical music]], and articles of versatile cultural and human interest.{{Citation needed|date= July 2018}}<br />
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He has been translated nationally and internationally, and his honours include the [[Jnanpith Award]], [[Sahitya Akademi Award]], Kabir Samman, Vyasa Samman, Lohia Samman, Shalaka Samman, [[Warsaw University]]'s honorary medal and Italy's Premio Feronia for distinguished international author.{{Citation needed|date= July 2018}}<br />
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He died on 15 November 2017 at the age of 90.<ref>[http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/kunwar-narayan-1927-2017-among-the-last-of-the-doyens-in-hindi-literature-4939392/lite/ Kunwar Narayan (1927-2017): Among the last of the doyens in Hindi literature]</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
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===Poetry===<br />
* ''Chakravyūh'' (Circular Siege), 1956.<ref name=reuters/> Radhakrishan, Delhi (first published by [[Rajkamal Prakashan]]).<br />
* ''Tīsrā Saptak'' (Third Heptad), seven poets, ed. Agyeya, 1959. Bharatiya Jnanpith, Delhi.<br />
* P: Hum-Tum (Surroundings: Us-You), 1961. Vani Prakashan, Delhi (first published by Bharti Bhandar, Allahabad).<br />
* ''Apné Sāmné'' (In Front of Us), 1979. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
* ''Koī Dūsrā Nahīn'' (No One the Other), 1993. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
* ''In Dino'' (These Days), 2002. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
* ''Vājaśravā ke bahāne'', 2008<br />
* ''Hāśiye kā gavāh'', 2009<br />
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===Epic poems===<br />
* ''Ātmajayī'' (Self-Conqueror), based on the Upanishadic episode of Nachikétā in Kathopnishad, 1965. Bharatiya Jnanpith, Delhi.<br />
* ''Vājashravā Ké Bahāné'' (On Vajashrava's Pretext), independent poems linked to Ātmajayī's context, 2008. Bharatiya Jnanpith.<br />
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===Fiction===<br />
* Ākāron Ké Ās-Pās (Near-about Shapes), a collection of short stories, 1973. Radhakrishan Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
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===Criticism===<br />
* ''Āj Aur Āj Sé Pahlé'' (Today and Before Today), 1998. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
* ''Méré Sākshātkār'' (My Interviews), interviews given by Kunwar Narain, ed. Vinod Bhardwaj, 1999. Kitabghar Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
* ''Sāhitya Ké Kuchh Antar-Vishayak Sandarbh'' (Some Interdisciplinary Contexts of Literature), XIV Samvatsar Lecture, 2003. Sahitya Akademi.<br />
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===Translations===<br />
* ''Selected poems of and essay on Constantine Cavafy'', 'Tanāv', 1986 and Jorge-Luis Borges, 'Tanāv', 1987.<br />
* ''Selected poems of Stéphane Mallarmé'', Tadeusz Różewicz, Derek Walcott, Zbigniew Herbert, Anna Świrszczyńska, etc.<br />
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===Compilations===<br />
* ''Kunwar Nārāin: Sansār-I'' (World: Select writings of Kunwar Narain), ed. Yatindra Mishra, 2002. Vani Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
*''Kunwar Nārāin: Upasthiti-II'' (Presence: Select articles on Kunwar Narain and his writings), ed. Y Mishra, 2002. Vani Prakashan.<br />
*''Kunwar Nārāin: Chunī Huī Kavitāyein'' (Selected Poems), ed. Suresh Salil, 2007. Medha Books, Delhi.<br />
*''Kunwar Nārāin: Pratinidhī Kavitāyein'' (Representative Poems), ed. Purshottam Agarwal, 2008. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
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==Awards and recognition==<br />
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*[[Jnanpith Award]] (considered as the highest literary award in India), for overall contribution in Hindi literature, 2005<ref name=reuters/><ref>{{cite web|title=JNANPITH LAUREATES |url=http://jnanpith.net/laureates/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013122739/http://jnanpith.net/laureates/index.html |archive-date=13 October 2007|work=Bharatyia Jnanpith|access-date=11 November 2010}}</ref><br />
*[[Padma Bhushan]] the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India for 'Literature & Education', 2009<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref><br />
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==Selected foreign translations==<br />
*Modern Hindi Poetry: An Anthology, ed. Vidya N. Misra, 1965, Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington & London. (English translation by Leonard Nathan & H M Guy)<br />
*Tokyo University Journal, No. 7, December 1972, Hindi Dept., Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies, Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo (Japanese translation by Toshio Tanaka)<br />
*Der Ochsenkarren, Hindilyrik der siebziger und achtziger Jahre, Zusammengestellt von Vishnu Khare & Lothar Lutze, Verlag Wolf Mersch, 1983 (German transl.)<br />
*Kunvar Narayan, Naciketa, A cura di Mariola Offredi, Plural Edizioni, Napoli. Collezione di Poesia I Cristalli, 1989, (Italian translation of Atmajayee)<br />
*The Golden Waist Chain: Modern Hindi Short Stories, ed. Sara Rai, 1990, Penguin. (English translation by Sara Rai)<br />
*TriQuarterly 77, Winter 1989/90, ed. Reginald Gibbons, 1990, Northwestern University, US (English translation by Vinay Dharwadker)<br />
*Periplus: Poetry in Translation, eds. Daniel Weissbort & Arvind K. Mehrotra, 1993, Oxford Univ. Press. (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet)<br />
*The Penguin New Writing in India, eds. Aditya Behl & David Nicholls, 1994, Penguin India, First published by Chicago Review (Vol. 38, Nos1 & 2), 1992<br />
*Survival, eds. Daniel Weissbort & Girdhar Rathi. Sahitya Akademi, India, 1994 (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet)<br />
*The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, eds. Vinay Dharwadker & A.K. Ramanujan, 1994, Oxford University Press (English translations)<br />
*Yatra 2: Writings from The Indian Subcontinent, General Ed.: Alok Bhalla, Eds. Nirmal Verma & U R Ananthamurthy, 1994, Indus (English trans., Alok Bhalla)<br />
*Living Literature: A Trilingual Documentation of Indo-German Literary Exchange, eds. Barbara Lotz and Vishnu Khare (German translations)<br />
*Gestures: Poetry from SAARC Countries, Edited by K. Satchidanandan, 1996 (Reprint 2001), Sahitya Akademi, India (English)<br />
*An Anthology of Modern Hindi Poetry, ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, 1998, Rupa & Co., India (English translations)<br />
*Dilli Mein Kavita, ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, translated into Russian by Varyam Singh, 1999, Sahitya Kala Parishad, Delhi (Russian translations)<br />
*Poeti Hindi: Antologia del Novecento, A cura di Mariola Offredi, Casta Diva, Roma. 2000. Poesia, Collana diretta da Enrico D’Angelo (Italian translations)<br />
*Kunvar Narayan, Nessuno è altro, A cura di Roberta Sequi, Casta Diva, Roma. 2001. (Italian translation of Koee Doosra Nahin)<br />
*Beyond Borders: An Anthology of SAARC Poetry, eds. [[Ashok Vajpeyi]] & Ajeet Cour, 2002, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature & Rainbow Publishers.<br />
*Ze współczesnej poezji Hindi, Przegląd Orientalistyczny, vol. 202-203, no. 3-4, Warszawa, 2002, translated by Danuta Stasik. (Polish translations)<br />
*Hindi: Handpicked Fictions, Edited and translated by Sara Rai, 2003, Katha, Delhi. (English translations)<br />
*New Poetry in Hindi (Nayi Kavita): An anthology edited, translated and introduced by Lucy Rosenstein, 2003, Permanent Black, Delhi. (English translations)<br />
*Cracow Indological Studies Vol. 6, ed. Renata Czekalska, Jagiellonian Univ., Kraków, 2005. (Polish translations, Renata Czekalska & Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś)<br />
*Kunwar Narain, Varco di ombre, a cura di Tullia Baldassarri Höger von Högersthal, edizione Mura, 2006 (Italian translation of selected poems)<br />
*Ik zag de stad, Moderne Hindi-poëzie, Vertaald en ingeleid door Lodewijk Brunt & Dick Plukker, Stichting India Instituut, Amsterdam, 2006 (Dutch translation)<br />
*Teaching on India in Central and Eastern Europe, eds. Danuta Stasik & Anna Trynkowska, Warsaw, 2007 (Polish translations by Danuta Stasik)<br />
*Kunwar Narain, Przez Słowa, Antologia pod redakcją Renaty Czekalskiej i Agnieszki Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków, 2007 (Polish translation)<br />
*Kunwar Narain. ''No Other World: Selected Poems'', translated by Apurva Narain, Rupa & Co., India, 2008. (English translation)<br />
*Kunwar Narajan. ''Wiersze'', w przekładzie Danuty Stasik, DIALOG, Warszawa 2013 (Polish translation)<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:University of Lucknow alumni]]<br />
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[[Category:People from Faizabad district]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education]]<br />
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