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{{Infobox person
| name = Sunita Jain
| image = File:SunitaJainBW.jpg
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| birth_date = 13 July 1940
| birth_place = [[Ambala district]], Haryana, India
| death_date = 11 December 2017
| death_place = New Delhi
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| occupation = Poet, writer, novelist, scholar
| yearsactive = Since 1962
| education = BA, MA, PhD
| alma_mater = [[Indraprastha College for Women]] (BA); [[Stony Brook University]] (MA); [[University of Nebraska-Lincoln]] (PhD)
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| spouse = Adishwar Lal Jain
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| children = Anu K. Mittal, Ravi K. Jain, Shashi K. Jain
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]] The Vreeland Award (1969) Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan Award Delhi Hindi Academy Award Nirala Namit Award Sahityakar Samman [[Mahadevi Varma]] Samman Prabha Khetan Award Brahmi Sundari Award Sulochini Writer Award [[Uttar Pradesh|UP]] Sahitya Bhushan Award The Vyas Samman Award (2015) 
D.Litt. University of Burdhwan, 2015
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'''Sunita Jain''' (1940–2017) was an Indian scholar, novelist, short-story writer and poet of English and Hindi literature.<ref name="Dr. Sunita Jain">{{cite web | url=http://www.jainsamaj.org/rpg_site/literature2.php?id=1027&cat=62 | title=Dr. Sunita Jain | publisher=Jain Samaj | date=2015 | access-date=22 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="Contemporary Indian English Poetry: Comparing Male and Female Voices">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=52GGtEiyPeAC&q=sunita+jain+autobiography&pg=PA8 | title=Contemporary Indian English Poetry: Comparing Male and Female Voices | publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist | author=Kanwar Dinesh Singh | year=2008 | pages=208 | isbn=9788126908899}}</ref> She was a former professor and the Head of the department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]].<ref name="Certificate">{{cite web | url=http://eprint.iitd.ac.in/bitstream/2074/5780/1/TH-2882.pdf | title=Certificate | publisher=Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi | date=28 December 2001 | access-date=22 November 2015}}</ref> She published over 60 books, in English and Hindi, besides translating many Jain writings into English.<ref name="Dr. Sunita Jain" /> She is featured in the ''Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English'' and was a recipient of The Vreeland Award (1969) and the Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award (1970 and 1971).<ref name="Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGfMAgAAQBAJ&q=Marie+Sandoz+Prairie+Schooner+Fiction+Award+Sunita+jain&pg=PA725 | title=Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English | publisher=Routledge | author=Eugene Benson, L. W. Conolly | year=2004 | pages=1946 | isbn=9781134468485}}</ref> The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 2004.<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}}</ref> In 2015 she was awarded the Vyas Samman by the K.K. Birla foundation for outstanding literary work in Hindi. In 2015 she was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Burdhwan, West Bengal.

== Biography ==

=== Early life ===
Born into a [[Jain community|Jain family]] on 13 July 1940 in the [[Ambala district]] of the Indian state of [[Haryana]], Sunita's family moved to Delhi when she was a teenager.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} She completed her B.A. from [[Indraprastha College for Women]], University of Delhi at the age of 18.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}}

She married in Delhi soon after she graduated and left for Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband, after which spend short stints in Zurich, Switzerland and New Delhi, India, before settling in Stony Brook, Long Island, in 1965. Jain did her post-graduate studies at the [[State University of New York]] in American English Literature. In 1968 she moved to Lincoln, Nrbraska where she secured a doctoral degree (PhD) from the [[University of Nebraska]].<ref name="Aashaa: Hope/faith/trust : Short Stories by Indian Women Writers">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQSwvro50oUC&q=Marie+Sandoz+Prairie+Schooner+Fiction+Award+Sunita+jain&pg=PA261 | title=Aashaa: Hope/faith/trust : Short Stories by Indian Women Writers | publisher=Star Publications | author=Divya Mathura (Ed.) | year=2003 | pages=287 | isbn=9788176500753}}</ref>

=== Career as an Educator ===
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Returning to India in 1972, after a short teaching stints at Indraprastha College and Aurobindo College, she joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and became the Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, from where she superannuated in 2002 as the Professor of English.

While at IIT, Delhi, she encouraged the expansion of the Humanities department and was instrumental in broadening the degree programs to include a Masters and PhD program.

=== Writing ===
She started writing at the age of 22 and has published short-stories, novels and poems in Hindi and English.<ref name="Women's Writing">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ydi9TEQJqD0C&q=Marie+Sandoz+Prairie+Schooner+Fiction+Award+Sunita+jain&pg=PA138 | title=Women's Writing | publisher=Sarup & Sons | author=Rashmi Gaur | year=2003 | pages=152 | isbn=9788176253963}}</ref> Her works in English include ''A Girl of Her Age'', a novel published in 2000<ref name="A Girl of Her Age">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Her-Age-Sunita-Jain/dp/B0061SI354 | title=A Girl of Her Age | publisher=Atma Ram & Sons | author=Sunita Jain | year=2000 | pages=106 | asin=B0061SI354}}</ref> and two short-story anthologies, ''A Woman is Dead''<ref name="A Woman is Dead">{{cite book | title=A Woman is Dead | publisher=Writers Workshop, Calcutta | author=Sunita Jain | year=1980 | pages=73 | oclc=612785046}}</ref> and ''Eunuch of Time and Other Stories'',<ref name="Eunuch of Time and Other Stories">{{cite book | title=Eunuch of Time and Other Stories | publisher=Vikas Publishers | author=Sunita Jain | year=1982 | pages=83 | isbn=9780706918816|oclc = 10111432}}</ref> published in 1980 and 1982 respectively. She published seven poetry anthologies and some of those poems have been reprinted under the titles, ''Sensum: Collected Poems 1965-2000''<ref name="Sensum: Collected Poems 1965-2000">{{cite book | title=Sensum: Collected Poems 1965–2000 | publisher=Myword! Press | author=Sunita Jain | year=2000 | pages=158 | oclc=156892219}}</ref> and ''American Desi and Other Poems''.<ref name="American Desi and Other Poems">{{cite book | title=American Desi and Other Poems | publisher=Read Books | author=Sunita Jain | year=2007 | pages=72 | isbn=9788190475310|oclc = 177858266}}</ref> Besides, she has also written a book for children under the name, ''The Mango Tree'' (2002)<ref name="The Mango Tree">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9072J0LM0ZkC&q=%22The+Mango+Tree%22+sunita+Jain | title=The Mango Tree | publisher=Orient Blackswan | author=Sunita Jain | year=2002 | pages=25 | isbn=9788125022695}}</ref> and literary criticism, ''John Steinbeck's Concept of Man : a Critical Study of his Novels''.<ref name="John Steinbeck's Concept of Man : a Critical Study of his Novels">{{cite book | title=John Steinbeck's Concept of Man : a Critical Study of his Novels | publisher=New Statesman Pub. Co | author=Sunita Jain | year=1979 | pages=101 | oclc=5945681}}</ref> Her short-stories have been included in two multi-writer short-story collections, ''Short Short Stories Universal'' (1993)<ref name="Short Short Stories Universal">{{cite book | title=Short Short Stories Universal | publisher=Reclam, Ditzingen | author=Reingard M. Nischik | year=1993 | isbn=978-3150092972}}</ref> and ''Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Voices in English'' (1994).<ref name="Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Voices in English">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thgJR6g0Go4C | title=Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Voices in English | publisher=Broadview Press | author=Victor J. Ramraj | year=1994 | pages=528 | isbn=9781551110257}}</ref>

Jain's autobiography has been written in Hindi as also five novels, five short-story poem anthologies and several volumes of poetry collections. Her book, ''Inner Light'' (1999), is a five-volume book on religious thoughts and she has published a translated work, ''Premchand: A Life and Letters'' (1993).<ref name="Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English" /> Her other translated works include ''Confluence of Seasons'' (2010),<ref name="Confluence of Seasons">{{cite book | title=Confluence of Seasons | publisher=Kitābaghara Prakāśana | author=Kalidasa, Sunita Jain (translator) | year=2010 | pages=180 | isbn=9789380146683|oclc = 665050402}}</ref> poems of [[Kalidasa]] and ''Mukti'' (2006), poems of Kshamasagar, a Jain holy person.<ref name="Mukti: poems, ed. and tr. by Sunita Jain">{{cite web | url=http://www.bibliaimpex.com/index.php?p=sr&Uc=35461&l=0 | title=Mukti: poems, ed. and tr. by Sunita Jain | publisher=Bibliaimpex | date=2015 | access-date=22 November 2015}}</ref>

=== Awards ===
She received The Vreeland Award of the [[University of Nebraska]] in 1969 and Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award twice, in 1970 and 1971.<ref name="Aashaa: Hope/faith/trust : Short Stories by Indian Women Writers" /><ref name="CONTEMPORARY INDIAN SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH">{{cite book | url=http://www.printsasia.in/book/contemporary-indian-short-stories-in-english-arun-joshi-dina-mehta-khwaja-8172010591-9788172010591 | title=CONTEMPORARY INDIAN SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH | publisher=Sahitya Akademi | date=2010 | access-date=22 November 2015 | isbn=9788172010591}}</ref>
She was awarded Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan Award in 1979 and 1980, followed by Delhi Hindi Academy Award in 1996.<ref name="Aashaa: Hope/faith/trust : Short Stories by Indian Women Writers" />
The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]] in 2004.
She is a recipient of other honours such as Nirala Namit Award (1980), Sahityakar Samman (1996), [[Mahadevi Varma]] Samman (1997),<ref name="Women's Writing" /> Prabha Khetan Award, Brahmi Sundari Award, Sulochini Writer Award and UP Sahitya Bhushan Award.<ref name="Dr. Sunita Jain" />
In 2015 she was awarded the Vyas Samman by the K.K. Birla foundation for outstanding literary work in Hindi.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}}

===Death===
Jain died in New Delhi on 11 December 2017 after a short battle with a rare blood disorder.<ref name="Dr. Sunita Jain" />

===Archives ===
Sunita Jain's collection of writings, awards, private papers, etc., are part of the permanent collection in the archives of Jamia Millia Islamia University at the Premchand Archives & Literary Centre: http://jmi.ac.in/jpalc/collections<ref name="Dr. Sunita Jain" />

[[File:SunitaJainReceivingPadmashree.jpg|thumb|left|Sunita Jain receiving the Padmashree from Indian President Abdul Kalam, 2004]]

==Selected English bibliography ==
* {{cite book | title=John Steinbeck's Concept of Man : a Critical Study of his Novels | publisher=New Statesman Pub. Co | author=Sunita Jain | year=1979 | pages=101 | oclc=5945681}}
* {{cite book | title=A Woman is Dead | publisher=Writers Workshop, Calcutta | author=Sunita Jain | year=1980 | pages=73 | oclc=612785046}}
* {{cite book | title=Eunuch of Time and Other Stories | publisher=Vikas Publishers | author=Sunita Jain | year=1982 | pages=83 | isbn=9780706918816}}
* {{cite book | title=Till I find Myself | publisher=New Delhi Sterling Publishers | author=Sunita Jain | year=1986 | oclc=568753716}}
* {{cite book | title=A Girl of Her Age | publisher=Atma Ram & Sons | author=Sunita Jain | year=2000 | pages=106 | asin=B0061SI354}}
* {{cite book | title=Sensum: Collected Poems 1965–2000 | publisher=Myword! Press | author=Sunita Jain | year=2000 | pages=158 | oclc=156892219}}
* {{cite book | title=The Mango Tree | publisher=Orient Blackswan | author=Sunita Jain | year=2002 | pages=25 | isbn=9788125022695}}
* {{cite book | title=American Desi and Other Poems | publisher=Read Books | author=Sunita Jain | year=2007 | pages=72 | isbn=9788190475310}}
* {{cite book | title=Confluence of Seasons | publisher=Kitābaghara Prakāśana | author=Kalidasa, Sunita Jain (translator) | year=2010 | pages=180 | isbn=9789380146683}}

==Selected Hindi bibliography ==
* {{cite book | title=Kaun sa Aakasha| publisher= Parag Prakāśana| author=Sunita Jain | year=1979| pages=60 | oclc=6864318}}
* {{cite book | title=Eka Aur Din| publisher= Abhivyañjanā Mukhya vitaraka Hindī Buka Saiṇṭara| author=Sunita Jain | year=1983| pages=64 | oclc=17984763}}
* {{cite book | title=Kahan Milogi Kavita | publisher=Prakashan Sansthan | author=Sunita Jain | year=1994 | isbn=8185830207}}
* {{cite book | title=Suno Madhu Kiśvara | publisher=Ayana Prakāśana | author=Sunita Jain | year=1995 | pages=91 | isbn=9788174080424}}
* {{cite book | title=Jane Laraki Pagli | publisher=Samānāntara Prakāśana | author=Sunita Jain | year=1996 | pages=159| oclc=610139227}}
* {{cite book | title=Ab Tak : Complete works (8 volume set) | publisher=Sārthaka Prakāśana | author=Sunita Jain editor Krishnadev Sharma | year=2003| isbn=8181600002}}
* {{cite book | title=Prem mein stri | publisher=Remadhav Pub | author=Sunita Jain | year=2006| pages=105 | isbn=9788189850081}}
* {{cite book | title=Mukti | publisher= Remādhava Pablikeśansa | author=Muni Kshamasagara, Sunita Jain | year=2006| pages=128| oclc=608132502}}
* {{cite book | title=Barish Mein Dilli| publisher=Medha Books | author=Sunita Jain | year=2007| pages=96 | isbn=978-8181662095}}
* {{cite book | title=Kshama | publisher=Remadhav Publications | author=Sunita Jain | year=2008| pages=80 | isbn=9788189914684}}
* {{cite book | title=Hui Sanjh Ki Beir | publisher=Remadhav Publications | author=Sunita Jain | year=2012| pages=96 | isbn=9789381297032}}

== See also ==
* [[State University of New York]]
* [[University of Nebraska]]
{{portal|India|Literature}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AJaina%2C+Suni%CC%84ta%CC%84.&fq=&dblist=638&start=11&qt=next_page | title=WorldCat profile | publisher=WorldCat | date=2015 | access-date=22 November 2015}}

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