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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.
'''Kunwar Narayan''' (19 September 1927 &ndash; 15 November 2017)<ref name=reuters/> was a [[poet]] in [[Indian literature]] in [[Hindi]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/reviews/story/kunwar-narain-and-the-world-in-his-poetry-237567 | title=Kunwar Narain and the world in his poetry }}</ref><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.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://scroll.in/latest/857997/hindi-poet-kunwar-narayan-a-padma-bhushan-and-jnanpith-award-winner-dies-at-90 | title=Hindi poet Kunwar Narain, a Padma Bhushan and Jnanpith Award winner, dies at 90 | date=15 November 2017 }}</ref> He obtained a Master of Arts in English literature from the [[University of Lucknow]] in 1951. <ref name="English department Lucknow University alumni">{{cite web | title=English department Lucknow University alumni| url=https://udrc.lkouniv.ac.in/Department/DepartmentDetail/History?dept=6 |publisher=University of Lucknow |access-date=2026-03-28}}</ref>


==Life==
==Death==
 
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><ref>{{cite web | url=https://scroll.in/article/1017244/witnesses-of-remembrance-kunwar-narains-poetry-preserves-the-words-and-sentiments-he-cared-for | title='Witnesses of Remembrance': Kunwar Narain's poetry preserves the words and sentiments he cared for | date=13 February 2022 }}</ref>
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}}
 
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}}
 
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}}
 
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}}
 
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>


==Works==
==Works==


===Poetry===
===Poetry===
* ''Chakravyūh'' (Circular Siege), 1956.<ref name=reuters/> Radhakrishan, Delhi (first published by [[Rajkamal Prakashan]]).
* ''Chakravyūh'' (Circular Siege), 1956.<ref name=reuters/> Radhakrishan, Delhi (first published by [[Rajkamal Prakashan]]).<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/poet-of-human-destiny/article21234000.ece | title=Poet of human destiny | newspaper=The Hindu | date=30 November 2017 | last1=Kumar | first1=Kuldeep }}</ref>
* ''Tīsrā Saptak'' (Third Heptad), seven poets, ed. Agyeya, 1959. Bharatiya Jnanpith, Delhi.
* ''Tīsrā Saptak'' (Third Heptad), seven poets, ed. Agyeya, 1959. Bharatiya Jnanpith, Delhi.
* P: Hum-Tum (Surroundings: Us-You), 1961. Vani Prakashan, Delhi (first published by Bharti Bhandar, Allahabad).
* P: Hum-Tum (Surroundings: Us-You), 1961. Vani Prakashan, Delhi (first published by Bharti Bhandar, Allahabad).
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==Awards and recognition==
==Awards and recognition==
 
* [[Vyas Samman]] (1995)
*[[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>
*[[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>
*[[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>
*[[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://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref>


==Selected foreign translations==
==Foreign translations==
*Modern Hindi Poetry: An Anthology, ed. Vidya N. Misra, 1965, Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington & London. (English translation by Leonard Nathan & H M Guy)
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*Tokyo University Journal, No. 7, December 1972, Hindi Dept., Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies, Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo (Japanese translation by Toshio Tanaka)
*''Modern Hindi Poetry: An Anthology'', ed. Vidya N. Misra, 1965, Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington & London. (English translation by Leonard Nathan & H M Guy)
*Der Ochsenkarren, Hindilyrik der siebziger und achtziger Jahre, Zusammengestellt von Vishnu Khare & Lothar Lutze, Verlag Wolf Mersch, 1983 (German transl.)
*''Tokyo University Journal'', No. 7, December 1972, Hindi Dept., Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies, Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo (Japanese translation by Toshio Tanaka)
*Kunvar Narayan, Naciketa, A cura di Mariola Offredi, Plural Edizioni, Napoli. Collezione di Poesia I Cristalli, 1989, (Italian translation of Atmajayee)
*''Der Ochsenkarren, Hindilyrik der siebziger und achtziger Jahre'', Zusammengestellt von Vishnu Khare & Lothar Lutze, Verlag Wolf Mersch, 1983 (German transl.)
*The Golden Waist Chain: Modern Hindi Short Stories, ed. Sara Rai, 1990, Penguin. (English translation by Sara Rai)
*''Kunvar Narayan, Naciketa, A cura di Mariola Offredi'', Plural Edizioni, Napoli. Collezione di Poesia I Cristalli, 1989, (Italian translation of Atmajayee)
*TriQuarterly 77, Winter 1989/90, ed. Reginald Gibbons, 1990, Northwestern University, US (English translation by Vinay Dharwadker)
*''The Golden Waist Chain: Modern Hindi Short Stories'', ed. Sara Rai, 1990, Penguin. (English translation by Sara Rai)
*Periplus: Poetry in Translation, eds. Daniel Weissbort & Arvind K. Mehrotra, 1993, Oxford Univ. Press. (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet)
*''TriQuarterly 77'', Winter 1989/90, ed. Reginald Gibbons, 1990, Northwestern University, US (English translation by Vinay Dharwadker)
*The Penguin New Writing in India, eds. Aditya Behl & David Nicholls, 1994, Penguin India, First published by Chicago Review (Vol. 38, Nos1 & 2), 1992
*''Periplus: Poetry in Translation'', eds. Daniel Weissbort & Arvind K. Mehrotra, 1993, Oxford Univ. Press. (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet)
*Survival, eds. Daniel Weissbort & Girdhar Rathi. Sahitya Akademi, India, 1994 (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet)
*''The Penguin New Writing in India'', eds. Aditya Behl & David Nicholls, 1994, Penguin India, First published by Chicago Review (Vol. 38, Nos1 & 2), 1992
*The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, eds. Vinay Dharwadker & A.K. Ramanujan, 1994, Oxford University Press (English translations)
*''Survival'', eds. Daniel Weissbort & Girdhar Rathi. Sahitya Akademi, India, 1994 (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet)
*Yatra 2: Writings from The Indian Subcontinent, General Ed.: Alok Bhalla, Eds. Nirmal Verma & U R Ananthamurthy, 1994, Indus (English trans., Alok Bhalla)
*''The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry'', eds. Vinay Dharwadker & A.K. Ramanujan, 1994, Oxford University Press (English translations)
*Living Literature: A Trilingual Documentation of Indo-German Literary Exchange, eds. Barbara Lotz and Vishnu Khare (German translations)
*''Yatra 2: Writings from The Indian Subcontinent'', General Ed.: Alok Bhalla, Eds. Nirmal Verma & U R Ananthamurthy, 1994, Indus (English trans., Alok Bhalla)
*Gestures: Poetry from SAARC Countries, Edited by K. Satchidanandan, 1996 (Reprint 2001), Sahitya Akademi, India (English)
*''Living Literature: A Trilingual Documentation of Indo-German Literary Exchange'', eds. Barbara Lotz and Vishnu Khare (German translations)
*An Anthology of Modern Hindi Poetry, ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, 1998, Rupa & Co., India (English translations)
*''Gestures: Poetry from SAARC Countries'', Edited by K. Satchidanandan, 1996 (Reprint 2001), Sahitya Akademi, India (English)
*Dilli Mein Kavita, ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, translated into Russian by Varyam Singh, 1999, Sahitya Kala Parishad, Delhi (Russian translations)
*''An Anthology of Modern Hindi Poetry'', ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, 1998, Rupa & Co., India (English translations)
*Poeti Hindi: Antologia del Novecento, A cura di Mariola Offredi, Casta Diva, Roma. 2000. Poesia, Collana diretta da Enrico D’Angelo (Italian translations)
*''Dilli Mein Kavita'', ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, translated into Russian by Varyam Singh, 1999, Sahitya Kala Parishad, Delhi (Russian translations)
*Kunvar Narayan, Nessuno è altro, A cura di Roberta Sequi, Casta Diva, Roma. 2001. (Italian translation of Koee Doosra Nahin)
*''Poeti Hindi: Antologia del Novecento, A cura di Mariola Offredi'', Casta Diva, Roma. 2000. Poesia, Collana diretta da Enrico D’Angelo (Italian translations)
*Beyond Borders: An Anthology of SAARC Poetry, eds. [[Ashok Vajpeyi]] & Ajeet Cour, 2002, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature & Rainbow Publishers.
*''Kunvar Narayan, Nessuno è altro, A cura di Roberta Sequi'', Casta Diva, Roma. 2001. (Italian translation of Koee Doosra Nahin)
*Ze współczesnej poezji Hindi, Przegląd Orientalistyczny, vol. 202-203, no. 3-4, Warszawa, 2002, translated by Danuta Stasik. (Polish translations)
*''Beyond Borders: An Anthology of SAARC Poetry'', eds. [[Ashok Vajpeyi]] & Ajeet Cour, 2002, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature & Rainbow Publishers.
*Hindi: Handpicked Fictions, Edited and translated by Sara Rai, 2003, Katha, Delhi. (English translations)
*''Ze współczesnej poezji Hindi, Przegląd Orientalistyczny'', vol. 202-203, no. 3-4, Warszawa, 2002, translated by Danuta Stasik. (Polish translations)
*New Poetry in Hindi (Nayi Kavita): An anthology edited, translated and introduced by Lucy Rosenstein, 2003, Permanent Black, Delhi. (English translations)
*''Hindi: Handpicked Fictions'', Edited and translated by Sara Rai, 2003, Katha, Delhi. (English translations)
*Cracow Indological Studies Vol. 6, ed. Renata Czekalska, Jagiellonian Univ., Kraków, 2005. (Polish translations, Renata Czekalska & Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś)
*''New Poetry in Hindi'' (Nayi Kavita): An anthology edited, translated and introduced by Lucy Rosenstein, 2003, Permanent Black, Delhi. (English translations)
*Kunwar Narain, Varco di ombre, a cura di Tullia Baldassarri Höger von Högersthal, edizione Mura, 2006 (Italian translation of selected poems)
*''Cracow Indological Studies Vol. 6'', ed. Renata Czekalska, Jagiellonian Univ., Kraków, 2005. (Polish translations, Renata Czekalska & Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś)
*Ik zag de stad, Moderne Hindi-poëzie, Vertaald en ingeleid door Lodewijk Brunt & Dick Plukker, Stichting India Instituut, Amsterdam, 2006 (Dutch translation)
*''Kunwar Narain, Varco di ombre, a cura di Tullia Baldassarri Höger von Högersthal'', edizione Mura, 2006 (Italian translation of selected poems)
*Teaching on India in Central and Eastern Europe, eds. Danuta Stasik & Anna Trynkowska, Warsaw, 2007 (Polish translations by Danuta Stasik)
*''Ik zag de stad, Moderne Hindi-poëzie, Vertaald en ingeleid door Lodewijk Brunt & Dick Plukker'', Stichting India Instituut, Amsterdam, 2006 (Dutch translation)
*Kunwar Narain, Przez Słowa, Antologia pod redakcją Renaty Czekalskiej i Agnieszki Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków, 2007 (Polish translation)
*''Teaching on India in Central and Eastern Europe'', eds. Danuta Stasik & Anna Trynkowska, Warsaw, 2007 (Polish translations by Danuta Stasik)
*''Kunwar Narain, Przez Słowa, Antologia pod redakcją Renaty Czekalskiej i Agnieszki Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Księgarnia Akademicka'', Kraków, 2007 (Polish translation)
*Kunwar Narain. ''No Other World: Selected Poems'', translated by Apurva Narain, Rupa & Co., India, 2008. (English translation)
*Kunwar Narain. ''No Other World: Selected Poems'', translated by Apurva Narain, Rupa & Co., India, 2008. (English translation)
*Kunwar Narajan. ''Wiersze'', w przekładzie Danuty Stasik, DIALOG, Warszawa 2013 (Polish translation)
*Kunwar Narajan. ''Wiersze'', w przekładzie Danuty Stasik, DIALOG, Warszawa 2013 (Polish translation)
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Kunwar Narayan
Born(1927-09-19)19 September 1927
Faizabad, United Provinces, British India
Died15 November 2017(2017-11-15) (aged 90)
New Delhi, India
OccupationPoet
NationalityIndian
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award in Hindi (1995) Jnanpith Award in 2005

Kunwar Narayan (19 September 1927 – 15 November 2017)[1] was a poet in Indian literature in Hindi.[2][1] He read and traveled widely and wrote for six decades. He was linked to the New Poetry movement.[3] He obtained a Master of Arts in English literature from the University of Lucknow in 1951. [4]

Death[edit | edit source]

He died on 15 November 2017 at the age of 90.[5][6]

Works[edit | edit source]

Poetry[edit | edit source]

  • Chakravyūh (Circular Siege), 1956.[1] Radhakrishan, Delhi (first published by Rajkamal Prakashan).[7]
  • Tīsrā Saptak (Third Heptad), seven poets, ed. Agyeya, 1959. Bharatiya Jnanpith, Delhi.
  • P: Hum-Tum (Surroundings: Us-You), 1961. Vani Prakashan, Delhi (first published by Bharti Bhandar, Allahabad).
  • Apné Sāmné (In Front of Us), 1979. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.
  • Koī Dūsrā Nahīn (No One the Other), 1993. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.
  • In Dino (These Days), 2002. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.
  • Vājaśravā ke bahāne, 2008
  • Hāśiye kā gavāh, 2009

Epic poems[edit | edit source]

  • Ātmajayī (Self-Conqueror), based on the Upanishadic episode of Nachikétā in Kathopnishad, 1965. Bharatiya Jnanpith, Delhi.
  • Vājashravā Ké Bahāné (On Vajashrava's Pretext), independent poems linked to Ātmajayī's context, 2008. Bharatiya Jnanpith.

Fiction[edit | edit source]

  • Ākāron Ké Ās-Pās (Near-about Shapes), a collection of short stories, 1973. Radhakrishan Prakashan, Delhi.

Criticism[edit | edit source]

  • Āj Aur Āj Sé Pahlé (Today and Before Today), 1998. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.
  • Méré Sākshātkār (My Interviews), interviews given by Kunwar Narain, ed. Vinod Bhardwaj, 1999. Kitabghar Prakashan, Delhi.
  • Sāhitya Ké Kuchh Antar-Vishayak Sandarbh (Some Interdisciplinary Contexts of Literature), XIV Samvatsar Lecture, 2003. Sahitya Akademi.

Translations[edit | edit source]

  • Selected poems of and essay on Constantine Cavafy, 'Tanāv', 1986 and Jorge-Luis Borges, 'Tanāv', 1987.
  • Selected poems of Stéphane Mallarmé, Tadeusz Różewicz, Derek Walcott, Zbigniew Herbert, Anna Świrszczyńska, etc.

Compilations[edit | edit source]

  • Kunwar Nārāin: Sansār-I (World: Select writings of Kunwar Narain), ed. Yatindra Mishra, 2002. Vani Prakashan, Delhi.
  • Kunwar Nārāin: Upasthiti-II (Presence: Select articles on Kunwar Narain and his writings), ed. Y Mishra, 2002. Vani Prakashan.
  • Kunwar Nārāin: Chunī Huī Kavitāyein (Selected Poems), ed. Suresh Salil, 2007. Medha Books, Delhi.
  • Kunwar Nārāin: Pratinidhī Kavitāyein (Representative Poems), ed. Purshottam Agarwal, 2008. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.

Awards and recognition[edit | edit source]

  • Vyas Samman (1995)
  • Jnanpith Award (considered as the highest literary award in India), for overall contribution in Hindi literature, 2005[1][8]
  • Padma Bhushan the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India for 'Literature & Education', 2009[9]

Foreign translations[edit | edit source]

  • Modern Hindi Poetry: An Anthology, ed. Vidya N. Misra, 1965, Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington & London. (English translation by Leonard Nathan & H M Guy)
  • Tokyo University Journal, No. 7, December 1972, Hindi Dept., Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies, Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo (Japanese translation by Toshio Tanaka)
  • Der Ochsenkarren, Hindilyrik der siebziger und achtziger Jahre, Zusammengestellt von Vishnu Khare & Lothar Lutze, Verlag Wolf Mersch, 1983 (German transl.)
  • Kunvar Narayan, Naciketa, A cura di Mariola Offredi, Plural Edizioni, Napoli. Collezione di Poesia I Cristalli, 1989, (Italian translation of Atmajayee)
  • The Golden Waist Chain: Modern Hindi Short Stories, ed. Sara Rai, 1990, Penguin. (English translation by Sara Rai)
  • TriQuarterly 77, Winter 1989/90, ed. Reginald Gibbons, 1990, Northwestern University, US (English translation by Vinay Dharwadker)
  • Periplus: Poetry in Translation, eds. Daniel Weissbort & Arvind K. Mehrotra, 1993, Oxford Univ. Press. (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet)
  • The Penguin New Writing in India, eds. Aditya Behl & David Nicholls, 1994, Penguin India, First published by Chicago Review (Vol. 38, Nos1 & 2), 1992
  • Survival, eds. Daniel Weissbort & Girdhar Rathi. Sahitya Akademi, India, 1994 (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet)
  • The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, eds. Vinay Dharwadker & A.K. Ramanujan, 1994, Oxford University Press (English translations)
  • Yatra 2: Writings from The Indian Subcontinent, General Ed.: Alok Bhalla, Eds. Nirmal Verma & U R Ananthamurthy, 1994, Indus (English trans., Alok Bhalla)
  • Living Literature: A Trilingual Documentation of Indo-German Literary Exchange, eds. Barbara Lotz and Vishnu Khare (German translations)
  • Gestures: Poetry from SAARC Countries, Edited by K. Satchidanandan, 1996 (Reprint 2001), Sahitya Akademi, India (English)
  • An Anthology of Modern Hindi Poetry, ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, 1998, Rupa & Co., India (English translations)
  • Dilli Mein Kavita, ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, translated into Russian by Varyam Singh, 1999, Sahitya Kala Parishad, Delhi (Russian translations)
  • Poeti Hindi: Antologia del Novecento, A cura di Mariola Offredi, Casta Diva, Roma. 2000. Poesia, Collana diretta da Enrico D’Angelo (Italian translations)
  • Kunvar Narayan, Nessuno è altro, A cura di Roberta Sequi, Casta Diva, Roma. 2001. (Italian translation of Koee Doosra Nahin)
  • Beyond Borders: An Anthology of SAARC Poetry, eds. Ashok Vajpeyi & Ajeet Cour, 2002, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature & Rainbow Publishers.
  • Ze współczesnej poezji Hindi, Przegląd Orientalistyczny, vol. 202-203, no. 3-4, Warszawa, 2002, translated by Danuta Stasik. (Polish translations)
  • Hindi: Handpicked Fictions, Edited and translated by Sara Rai, 2003, Katha, Delhi. (English translations)
  • New Poetry in Hindi (Nayi Kavita): An anthology edited, translated and introduced by Lucy Rosenstein, 2003, Permanent Black, Delhi. (English translations)
  • Cracow Indological Studies Vol. 6, ed. Renata Czekalska, Jagiellonian Univ., Kraków, 2005. (Polish translations, Renata Czekalska & Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś)
  • Kunwar Narain, Varco di ombre, a cura di Tullia Baldassarri Höger von Högersthal, edizione Mura, 2006 (Italian translation of selected poems)
  • Ik zag de stad, Moderne Hindi-poëzie, Vertaald en ingeleid door Lodewijk Brunt & Dick Plukker, Stichting India Instituut, Amsterdam, 2006 (Dutch translation)
  • Teaching on India in Central and Eastern Europe, eds. Danuta Stasik & Anna Trynkowska, Warsaw, 2007 (Polish translations by Danuta Stasik)
  • Kunwar Narain, Przez Słowa, Antologia pod redakcją Renaty Czekalskiej i Agnieszki Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Księgarnia Akademicka, Kraków, 2007 (Polish translation)
  • Kunwar Narain. No Other World: Selected Poems, translated by Apurva Narain, Rupa & Co., India, 2008. (English translation)
  • Kunwar Narajan. Wiersze, w przekładzie Danuty Stasik, DIALOG, Warszawa 2013 (Polish translation)

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Reuters Hindi poet Kunwar Narayan wins Jnanpith award, 7 October 2009, Miral Fahmy, retrieved 21 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "Kunwar Narain and the world in his poetry".
  3. ↑ "Hindi poet Kunwar Narain, a Padma Bhushan and Jnanpith Award winner, dies at 90". 15 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "English department Lucknow University alumni". University of Lucknow. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  5. ↑ Kunwar Narayan (1927-2017): Among the last of the doyens in Hindi literature
  6. ↑ "'Witnesses of Remembrance': Kunwar Narain's poetry preserves the words and sentiments he cared for". 13 February 2022.
  7. ↑ Kumar, Kuldeep (30 November 2017). "Poet of human destiny". The Hindu.
  8. ↑ "JNANPITH LAUREATES". Bharatyia Jnanpith. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  9. ↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
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