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Krishna Sobti (18 February 1925 – 25 January 2019) was an Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist. [1] [2] She won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama [1] [3] and in 1996, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship , the highest award of the Akademi. [4]
The death of Krishna Sobti, who passed away in Delhi on Friday after a long illness, has robbed Hindi literature of one of its most glorious and remarkable writers. (VipinKumar/HT Photo)
Jan 25, 2019 · Legendary Hindi writer Krishna Sobti passed away early Friday morning at the age of 93. Sobti, a Sahitya Akademi Award and Jnanpith award winner, started her literary journey with poetry, before switching to fiction. Considered the Grande Dame of Hindi literature, her writings often created an uproar for being “obscene”.
Jan 25, 2019 · Krishna Sobti, legendary Hindi writer, passed away early this morning in Delhi. She was 93. Born in February 1925 in Gujarat- Punjab, now a province in Pakistan, Sobti began her writings in poetry and then went on to write fiction which won her several awards.
Feb 13, 2019 · A defiant life. Krishna Sobti (1925-2019) wrote on a range of issues such as Partition and women’s sexuality and identity with a rare candour and opposed the establishment’s dictatorial ways to...
Mar 5, 2020 · Krishna Sobti has been widely studied as an author whose writings raise feminist concerns. The female characters, in most of her works, play a crucial part in the narrative. Her characters are shown resisting societal pressures within realistic situations and settings.
Jun 17, 2017 · Krishna Sobti, 92, has a new novel out. But the legendary Hindi writer now sees time go by swiftly. In what she calls her “last interview”, Sobti looks back at her childhood, the days of Independence and reflects on the crisis of contemporary India.
Jan 25, 2019 · Eminent Hindi author and essayist Krishna Sobti passed away on Friday in Delhi, family sources said. She was 93. The author breathed her last in a Delhi hospital this morning, where she was...
Never Say Die—Krishna Sobti Mamta Kalia K rishna Sobti, the senior-most Hindi author, passed away quietly at 94, on a chilly morning, on February 25, 2019. She wielded the pen for more than seventy years. As a teenager she had lived in the undivided India and carried vivid vignettes of that period. In her books like
Jan 25, 2019 · New Delhi: Eminent Hindi author and essayist Krishna Sobti died Friday in Delhi, family sources said. She was 93. She breathed her last in a Delhi hospital this morning, where she was admitted...
