Jainendra Kumar

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Jainendra Kumar" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Jainendra Kumar
File:JainendraKumarImage.jpg
Born	(1905-01-02)2 January 1905 Kodiyaganj, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India
Died	24 December 1988(1988-12-24) (aged 83)
Language	Hindi
Nationality	Indian
Notable works	Parakh Paap Aur Prakash Muktibodh
Notable awards	Padma Bhushan 1971 Sahitya Akademi Fellowship 1979 Sahitya Akademi Award 1966

Jainendra Kumar (2 January 1905 – 24 December 1988) was a 20th century Indian writer who wrote in Hindi. He wrote novels include Sunita and Tyagapatra. He was awarded one of India's highest civilian honours, the Padma Bhushan in 1971.^[1] He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by the Sahitya Akademi in 1966, for his work Muktibodh (novelette), and its highest award, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1979.^[2]

File:At Zia Fatehabadi.jpg

1965 photo-print of an informal gathering of poets/writers at the residence of Zia Fatehabadi. Seen left to right: Naresh Kumar Shad, Kailash Chander Naaz, Talib Dehalvi, Khushtar Girami, Balraj Hairat, Saghar Nizami, Talib Chakwali, Munavvar Lakhnavi, Malik Ram, Jainendra Kumar, Zia Fatehabadi, Rishi Patialvi, Bahar Burney, Joginder Pal, Unwan Chishti and Krishan Mohan.

Literary works[edit]

Suneeta
Neelam Desh ki Rajkanya
Chidiya Ki Bhachi
Ek Raat
Vatayan
Parakh
Ankita
Sukhda
Kalyani
Jayvardhan
Dashark
Akal Purush Gandhi
Premchand: Ek Krati Vyaktitva
Sahitya ka Shrey Aur Prey
Samay Aur Hum
Jeevan Sahitya Aur Paramparayein
Gandhi aur Humara Samay Tatha Sanskriti
Khel
Pajeb
Patni
Apna Apna Bhagya
Muktibodh
"Atma Shikshan" (short story)

Translations[edit]

Prem Mein Bhagwaan
Paap Aur Prakash
Yama

Awards and honors[edit]

Hindustan Academy Puraskar, 1929 for Parakh
Sahitya Akademi Award, 1953 for Paap Aur Prakash
Hastimal Dalmiya Puraskar, 1965 for Muktibodh
Padma Bhushan, 1971
Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, 1979

References[edit]

↑ Padma Bhushan^{[dead link]}
↑ Official site for Sahitya Akademi Awards Archived 13 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine

External links[edit]

v t e Padma Bhushan award recipients (1970–1979)
1970	Ramkinkar Baij Hirabai Barodekar Buddhadeb Bosu Amiya Chakravarty T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar Lala Hansraj Gupta Ratan Lal Joshi Gurram Jashuva Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar Kumari Kamala P. K. Kelkar M. S. Krishnan Syed Abdul Latif Bhagwantrao Mandloi Mahesh Prasad Mehray Sombhu Mitra Vivekananda Mukhopadhyaya Krishnaswami Ramiah Anant alias Annasaheb Sahasrabuddhe Surrendar Saini Viswanatha Satyanarayana Ahmed Jan Thirakwa N. M. Wagle Prem Nath Wahi Yashpal
1971	N. Ramaswami Ayyar Suraj Bhan Gokulbhai Bhatt Jaishankar Bhojak Kandathil Mammen Cherian Ramrao Deshmukh Satish Dhawan Abasaheb Garware Gangubai Hangal Musiri Subramania Iyer Palghat Mani Iyer Mungtu Ram Jaipuria Veni Shankar Jha Jainendra Kumar Raj Kapoor Dhananjay Keer Amir Khan Nissar Hussain Khan Guru Kunchu Kurup R. K. Laxman Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta Ved Rattan Mohan Bishnupada Mukhopadhyaya Kalindi Charan Panigrahi Manibhai J. Patel D. K. Pattammal Krishnarao Phulambrikar Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai Vulimiri Ramalingaswami Suresh Chandra Roy Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme Pichu Sambamoorthi Bhagwati Charan Verma Parmeshwari Lal Verma
1972	Jagjit Singh Aurora Madhavrao Bagal Gopal Gurunath Bewoor Gulestan Rustom Billimoria Kunhiraman Palat Candeth Ram Narayan Chakravarti Yashodhara Dasappa Hari Chand Dewan Minoo Merwan Engineer Inderjit Singh Gill Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani L. A. Krishna Iyer Sourendra Nath Kohli Jai Krishna Nilakanta Krishnan Ashwini Kumar Pran Nath Luthra N. G. Krishna Murti T. A. Pai Vinayakrao Patwardhan Dattatraya Yeshwant Phadke Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare Tapishwar Narain Raina Bharat Ram Mohinder Singh Randhawa Adya Rangacharya M. B. Ramachandra Rao A. S. Rao Sujoy Bhushan Roy Khusro Faramurz Rustamji Shantilal C. Sheth Baldev Singh Khem Karan Singh Sartaj Singh Sagat Singh Birendranath Sircar Papanasam Sivan Chandrika Prasad Srivastava M. S. Swaminathan Bal Dattatreya Tilak Syed Husain Zaheer
1973	Om P. Bahl Chembai Harindranath Chattopadhyay Banarsidas Chaturvedi M. A. Muthiah Chettiar M. F. Husain Pothan Joseph N. R. Malkani Vinoo Mankad Krishnarao Shankar Pandit Pitambar Pant Vennelakanti Raghavaiah Raja Ramanna K. Sukumaran
1974	Alice Boner Camille Bulcke Ram Kumar Caroli Dhirendra Nath Ganguly D. V. Gundappa V. S. Huzurbazar Chintamoni Kar Mogubai Kurdikar Jayant Pandurang Naik Habib Rahman B. N. Reddy John Richardson Toppur Seethapathy Sadasivan Sukhlal Sanghvi Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia Jaideva Singh Khushwant Singh Arunachala Sreenivasan Raman Viswanathan
1975	Begum Akhtar Dilbagh Singh Athwal Asima Chatterjee Madhav Sadashiv Gore Pratul Chandra Gupta P. K. Iyengar Darab Jehangir Jussawala Pancheti Koteswaram Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay Kirpal Singh Narang Ronald Carlton Vivian Piadade Noronha Ratan Shastri
1976	Malcolm Adiseshiah Harivansh Rai Bachchan Nabakanta Barua Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi Naoroji Pirojsha Godrej Zehra Ali Yavar Jung Mallikarjun Mansur Yash Pal Bhogilal Pandya Udupi Ramachandra Rao Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi Devulapalli Krishnasastri C. Sivaramamurti E. C. George Sudarshan
1977	Gopinath Aman Prithvi Singh Azad Harish-Chandra Kumar Gandharva Phulrenu Guha Jagmohan Kailas Nath Kaul Yousuf Hussain Khan K. S. Narayanaswamy Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi Perugu Siva Reddy Annapurna Devi Yudhvir Singh M. N. Srinivas Thenpattinam Ponnusamy Meenakshi Sundaran
# Posthumous conferral 1954–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029

v t e Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi
1955–1959	Makhanlal Chaturvedi (1955) Vasudeva Saran Agrawal (1956) Acharya Narendra Dev (1957) Rahul Sankrityayan (1958) Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' (1959)
1960–1979	Sumitranandan Pant (1960) Bhagwati Charan Verma (1961) Not awarded (1962) Amrit Rai (1963) S. H. V. Agyeya (1964) Nagendra (1965) Jainendra Kumar (1966) Amritlal Nagar (1967) Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1968) Shrilal Shukla (1969) Ram Vilas Sharma (1970) Namvar Singh (1971) Bhawani Prasad Mishra (1972) Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (1973) Shivmangal Singh Suman (1974) Bhisham Sahni (1975) Yashpal (1976) Shamsher Bahadur Singh (1977) Bharat Bhushan Agarwal (1978) Sudama Panday 'Dhoomil' (1979)
1980–1999	Krishna Sobti (1980) Trilochan (1981) Harishankar Parsai (1982) Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena (1983) Raghuvir Sahay (1984) Nirmal Verma (1985) Kedarnath Agarwal (1986) Shrikant Verma (1987) Naresh Mehta (1988) Kedarnath Singh (1989) Shiv Prasad Singh (1990) Girija Kumar Mathur (1991) Giriraj Kishore (1992) Vishnu Prabhakar (1993) Ashok Vajpeyi (1994) Kunwar Narayan (1995) Surendra Verma (1996) Leeladhar Jagudi (1997) Arun Kamal (1998) Vinod Kumar Shukla (1999)
2000–present	Manglesh Dabral (2000) Alka Saraogi (2001) Rajesh Joshi (2002) Kamleshwar (2003) Viren Dangwal (2004) Manohar Shyam Joshi (2005) Gyanendrapati (2006) Amarkant (2007) Govind Mishra (2008) Kailash Vajpeyi (2009) Uday Prakash (2010) Kashinath Singh (2011) Chandrakant Devtale (2012) Mridula Garg (2013) Ramesh Chandra Shah (2014) Ramdarash Mishra (2015) Nasira Sharma (2016) Ramesh Kuntal Megh (2017) Chitra Mudgal (2018) Nand Kishore Acharya (2019)

v t e Sahitya Akademi fellows
1968–1980	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1968) D. R. Bendre, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Sumitranandan Pant, C. Rajagopalachari (1969) Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1970) Kaka Kalelkar, Gopinath Kaviraj, Gurbaksh Singh, Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1971) Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Mangharam Udharam Malkani, Nilmoni Phukan, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, Sukumar Sen, V. R. Trivedi (1973) T. P. Meenakshisundaram (1975) Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande, Jainendra Kumar, Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu', V. Raghavan, Mahadevi Varma (1979)
1981–2000	Umashankar Joshi, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, K. Shivaram Karanth (1985) Mulk Raj Anand, Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi, Amritlal Nagar, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, Annada Shankar Ray (1989) Nagarjun, Balamani Amma, Ashapurna Devi, Qurratulain Hyder, Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, Kanhu Charan Mohanty, P. T. Narasimhachar, R. K. Narayan, Harbhajan Singh (1994) Jayakanthan, Vinda Karandikar, Vidya Niwas Mishra, Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Raja Rao, Sachidananda Routray, Krishna Sobti (1996) Syed Abdul Malik, K. S. Narasimhaswamy, Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Rajendra Shah, Ram Vilas Sharma, N. Khelchandra Singh (1999) Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, Rehman Rahi (2000)
2001–present	Ram Nath Shastri (2001) Kaifi Azmi, Govind Chandra Pande, Nilamani Phookan, Bhisham Sahni (2002) Kovilan, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Vijaydan Detha, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Amrita Pritam, Shankha Ghosh, Nirmal Verma (2004) Manoj Das, Vishnu Prabhakar (2006) Anita Desai, Kartar Singh Duggal, Ravindra Kelekar (2007) Gopi Chand Narang, Ramakanta Rath (2009) Chandranath Mishra Amar, Kunwar Narayan, Bholabhai Patel, Kedarnath Singh, Khushwant Singh (2010) Raghuveer Chaudhari, Arjan Hasid, Sitakant Mahapatra, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Asit Rai, Satya Vrat Shastri (2013) Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa, C. Narayana Reddy (2014) Nirendranath Chakravarty, Gurdial Singh (2016)
Honorary Fellows	Léopold Sédar Senghor (1974) Edward C. Dimock, Jr., Daniel H. H. Ingalls Sr., Kamil Zvelebil, Ji Xianlin (1996) Vassilis Vitsaxis, Eugene Chelyshev (2002) Ronald E. Asher (2007) Abhimanyu Unnuth (2013)
Premchand Fellowship	Intizar Hussain (2005)
Ananda Coomaraswamy Fellowship	Senake Bandaranayake, Chie Nakane, Azad N. Shamatov (1996)