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| birth_name = Hema Dhumatkar<br />
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* ''Bhogdandd''<br />
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'''Hema Naik''' is a [[Konkani language]] writer from the coastal Indian state of [[Goa]]. She is a [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] winner and is the wife of the Konkani writer [[Pundalik Naik]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Hema-Naik-wins-Sahitya-Akademi-prize/articleshow/31811297.cms|title=Hema Naik wins Sahitya Akademi prize|date=Mar 11, 2014|website=The Times of India|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref> She publishes books under the banner of Volvoi-based Apurbai Prakashan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.goa365.tv/artculture/E/won’t-back-down-because-of-complaint-nothing-derogatory-in-sudirsukt-hema-naik/01697.html|title=#GOA365 VIDEO: Won’t back down because of complaint, nothing derogatory in Sudirsukt: Hema Naik|website=Goa365|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Born as Hema Dhumatkar, she is an Economics graduate who began writing when she was a student activist. She attended the World Women Conference at [[Kolkata]] in 1973, which led her to begin writing about women in society in Konkani.<ref name="MangaloreTodayMeet">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mangaloretoday.com/main/-rsquo-Meet-the-Author-rsquo-Hema-Naik-in-Mangalore-on-Aug-31.html|title=’Meet the Author’ Hema Naik in Mangalore on Aug 31|website=Mangalore Today|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=186375|title=Mangalore: Renowned Konkani author Hema Naik interacts with city's literati|website=Daijiworld|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Through her early writings, Hema Naik attacked society's prevalent [[feudalism]] and male chauvinism, covering the aspect of women in society in Konkani literature. She began a series of conferences aimed at young female writers called "Chitrangi Melave" to integrate the various feminist ideals in Konkani literature. She was part of the [[Konkani language agitation]] and the agitation for Goa's statehood in 1985. She has published more than 100 books and journals in Konkani under her publication house, Apurbai Prakashan.<ref name="MangaloreTodayMeet" /><br />
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Over the years, Naik has been a writer, activist, writer, translator, publisher and producer. Her works have explored the different types of people and their behaviour, talking about class and [[Caste system in India|caste]]. In her work, ''Nirbala'', the protagonist Sapana simply witnesses the cruelty of life around her as an unresisting sufferer and does nothing about it. In another short story, ''Nimane Sanskar'', the protagonist Pranita breaks away from the traditional customs and lights the funeral pyre of her dead father. In ''Durgavatar'', another short story, an uneducated lady kills her husband after facing domestic violence and abuses on a daily basis. Her work, ''Bhagdandd'' explores the psyche that concerns the material pleasures of the world, in an attempt to find a way out from the usual and non-challenging world.<ref name="MangaloreTodayMeet" /><br />
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Naik was part of the [[Indian writers protest against government silence on violence]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://m.goanews.com/news_details.php?id=6240|title=Hema will return award if SA doesn't take a firm stand today|website=Goa News|date=23 October 2015|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/sahitya-akademi-writers-from-goa-launch-campaign/articleshow/49359623.cms|title=Sahitya Akademi writers from Goa launch campaign|date=2015-10-14|work=The Economic Times|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/sahitya-akademi-writers-from-goa-launch-campaign-494730-2015-10-14|title=Sahitya Akademi writers from Goa launch campaign|date=Oct 14, 2015 |website=India Today|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref> In response to the rise of cases of abuse of women in the country in 2012–2013, she serially published a novel, ''Log Out'' in ''Dainik Herald''.<ref name="MangaloreTodayMeet" /> In 2016 she wrote the Konkani novel ''Aprup Odh''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digitalgoa.com/event/aprup-odh-konkani-book-release/|title=‘Aprup Odh’ Konkani Book Release|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref> In 2017, she had an [[First information report|FIR]] lodged against her for publishing [[Vishnu Wagh]]'s book ''Sudhir Sukta'', which became a subject of debate for its objectionable content on castes and women.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/fir-against-goas-exbjp-mlapoet-vishnu-wagh-for-obscene/1169894|title=FIR against Goa's ex-BJP MLA-poet Vishnu Wagh for 'obscene language'|website=Outlook India|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
===Translations===<br />
* ''Taath Kana'' by [[P. S. Ramani]] (autobiography) into Konkani<br />
* Autobiography of Bhalchandra Mungekar into Konkani<br />
* Autobiography of Narendra Jadhav into Konkani<br />
* ''Kali Katha: Via Bypass'' by [[Alka Saraogi]] into Konkani<br />
* ''Goa: The Daughter's Story'' by [[Maria Aurora Couto]] into Konkani<ref name="MangaloreTodayMeet" /><br />
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===Short stories===<br />
* ''Nirbala''<br />
* ''Nimane Sanskar''<br />
* ''Durgavatar''<br />
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===Novels===<br />
* ''Aprup Odh'' (2016)<br />
* ''Log Out''<br />
* ''Bhogdandd''<br />
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==Awards and accolades==<br />
Naik was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in Konkani in 2002 for her Konkani novel ''Bhogdandd''. She then won the award again in 2013 for her translation of the Hindi novel ''Kali Katha: Via Bypass'' by Alka Saraogi into Konkani.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Hema-Naik-wins-Sahitya-Akademi-prize/articleshow/31811297.cms|title=Hema Naik wins Sahitya Akademi prize|date=11 March 2014|website=The Times of India|access-date=2020-04-04}}</ref> She has also won the TMA Pai Foundation Manipal's Best Book Award for ''Bhogdandd''. Her work features in the third volume of ''Knit India Through Literature'' by researcher-writer Sivasankari and in ''Hot is the Moon'', a collection of stories and poems written by women in India and edited by Arundhathi Subramaniam. Her work in publishing the magazine ''Chitrangi'' was recognised with the Katha Journal award by the Federation of India Publishers, New Delhi.<ref name="MangaloreTodayMeet" /><br />
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