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| name | | name = Nagarjun | ||
| image | | image = Nagarjun (1911-1998).jpg | ||
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| birth_name | | birth_name = Vaidyanath Mishra | ||
| birth_date | | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1911|6|30}}<ref>[http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Biblio/nagarjun.html The People's poet – Nagarjun] ''Library'', ''[[University of Virginia]]''. ''From Biblio, Nov–Dec 1998, p. 8-9''.</ref> | ||
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| birth_place | | birth_place = Satlakha Village, [[Madhubani District]], Bihar, India | ||
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1998|11|5|1911|6|11}} | | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1998|11|5|1911|6|11}} | ||
| death_place = Khwaja Sarai, [[Darbhanga district]], Bihar<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/208475.stm South Asia, Hindi poet, Nagarjun, dead] ''[[BBC News]]'', 5 November 1998.</ref> | | death_place = Khwaja Sarai, [[Darbhanga district]], Bihar<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/208475.stm South Asia, Hindi poet, Nagarjun, dead] ''[[BBC News]]'', 5 November 1998.</ref> | ||
|spouse = Aparajita Devi | | spouse = Aparajita Devi | ||
| occupation | | occupation = Poet, writer, essayist, novelist, buddhist | ||
|pseudonym= Nagarjun | | pseudonym = Nagarjun | ||
|language = Hindi | | language = Hindi, Maithili | ||
| yearsactive | | yearsactive = 1930–1994 | ||
| awards = | | awards = | ||
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* 1969: [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] | * 1969: [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] | ||
* 1983: [[Sahitya Akademi Fellowship]] | * 1983: [[Sahitya Akademi Fellowship]] | ||
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'''Vaidyanath Mishra''' (30 June 1911 – 5 November 1998), better known by his [[pen name]] '''Nagarjun''', was a [[Hindi]] and [[Maithili language|Maithili]] poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, [[Biography in literature|literary biographies]] and travelogues, and was known as ''Janakavi''- the People's Poet. | '''Vaidyanath Mishra''' (30 June 1911 – 5 November 1998), better known by his [[pen name]] '''Nagarjun''', was a [[Hindi]] and [[Maithili language|Maithili]] poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, [[Biography in literature|literary biographies]] and travelogues, and was known as ''Janakavi''- the People's Poet. | ||
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=== Career === | === Career === | ||
He started his literary career with [[Maithili language|Maithili]] poems by the pen-name of '''Yatri''' (यात्री) in the early 1930s. By the mid 1930s, he started writing poetry in Hindi. His first permanent job of a full-time teacher, took him to [[Saharanpur]] ([[Uttar Pradesh]]), though he didn't stay there for long as his urge to delve deeper into Buddhist scriptures, took him to the Buddhist monastery at [[Kelaniya]], [[Sri Lanka]], where in 1935, he became a [[bhikkhu|Buddhist monk]], entered the [[vihara|monastery]] and studied the scriptures, just as his mentor, [[Rahul Sankrityayan]] had done earlier, and hence took upon the name "Nagarjun". While at the monastery, he also studied [[Leninism]] and [[Marxism]] ideologies, before returning to India in 1938 to join 'Summer School of Politics' organised by noted peasant leader, [[Sahajanand Saraswati]], founder of [[All India Kisan Sabha|Kisan Sabha]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040814041633/http://cc.domaindlx.com/aapanmithila/poet.htm#Nagarjun Poets of Mithila – Nagarjun]</ref> A wanderer by nature, Nagarjun spent a considerable amount of his time in the 1930s and the 1940s travelling across India. | He started his literary career with [[Maithili language|Maithili]] poems by the pen-name of '''Yatri''' (यात्री) in the early 1930s. By the mid-1930s, he started writing poetry in Hindi. His first permanent job of a full-time teacher, took him to [[Saharanpur]] ([[Uttar Pradesh]]), though he didn't stay there for long as his urge to delve deeper into Buddhist scriptures, took him to the Buddhist monastery at [[Kelaniya]], [[Sri Lanka]], where in 1935, he became a [[bhikkhu|Buddhist monk]], entered the [[vihara|monastery]] and studied the scriptures, just as his mentor, [[Rahul Sankrityayan]] had done earlier, and hence took upon the name "Nagarjun". While at the monastery, he also studied [[Leninism]] and [[Marxism]] ideologies, before returning to India in 1938 to join 'Summer School of Politics' organised by noted peasant leader, [[Sahajanand Saraswati]], founder of [[All India Kisan Sabha|Kisan Sabha]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040814041633/http://cc.domaindlx.com/aapanmithila/poet.htm#Nagarjun Poets of Mithila – Nagarjun]</ref> A wanderer by nature, Nagarjun spent a considerable amount of his time in the 1930s and the 1940s travelling across India. | ||
He also participated in many mass-awakening movements before and after independence. Between 1939 and 1942, He was jailed by the British courts for leading a farmer's agitation in Bihar. For a long time after independence he was involved with journalism. | He also participated in many mass-awakening movements before and after independence. Between 1939 and 1942, He was jailed by the British courts for leading a farmer's agitation in Bihar. For a long time after independence he was involved with journalism. | ||