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|name = Kunwar Narayan<br />
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|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1927|9|19}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Faizabad]], [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2017|11|15|1927|9|19}}<br />
|death_place =[[New Delhi]], [[India]]<br />
|occupation = [[Poet]] <br />
|nationality = [[India]]n<br />
|awards =Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi (1995)<br />
[[Jnanpith Award]] in 2005<br />
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'''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><br />
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==Death==<br />
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><br />
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==Works==<br />
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===Poetry===<br />
* ''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><br />
* ''Tīsrā Saptak'' (Third Heptad), seven poets, ed. Agyeya, 1959. Bharatiya Jnanpith, Delhi.<br />
* P: Hum-Tum (Surroundings: Us-You), 1961. Vani Prakashan, Delhi (first published by Bharti Bhandar, Allahabad).<br />
* ''Apné Sāmné'' (In Front of Us), 1979. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
* ''Koī Dūsrā Nahīn'' (No One the Other), 1993. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
* ''In Dino'' (These Days), 2002. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
* ''Vājaśravā ke bahāne'', 2008<br />
* ''Hāśiye kā gavāh'', 2009<br />
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===Epic poems===<br />
* ''Ātmajayī'' (Self-Conqueror), based on the Upanishadic episode of Nachikétā in Kathopnishad, 1965. Bharatiya Jnanpith, Delhi.<br />
* ''Vājashravā Ké Bahāné'' (On Vajashrava's Pretext), independent poems linked to Ātmajayī's context, 2008. Bharatiya Jnanpith.<br />
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===Fiction===<br />
* Ākāron Ké Ās-Pās (Near-about Shapes), a collection of short stories, 1973. Radhakrishan Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
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===Criticism===<br />
* ''Āj Aur Āj Sé Pahlé'' (Today and Before Today), 1998. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
* ''Méré Sākshātkār'' (My Interviews), interviews given by Kunwar Narain, ed. Vinod Bhardwaj, 1999. Kitabghar Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
* ''Sāhitya Ké Kuchh Antar-Vishayak Sandarbh'' (Some Interdisciplinary Contexts of Literature), XIV Samvatsar Lecture, 2003. Sahitya Akademi.<br />
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===Translations===<br />
* ''Selected poems of and essay on Constantine Cavafy'', 'Tanāv', 1986 and Jorge-Luis Borges, 'Tanāv', 1987.<br />
* ''Selected poems of Stéphane Mallarmé'', Tadeusz Różewicz, Derek Walcott, Zbigniew Herbert, Anna Świrszczyńska, etc.<br />
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===Compilations===<br />
* ''Kunwar Nārāin: Sansār-I'' (World: Select writings of Kunwar Narain), ed. Yatindra Mishra, 2002. Vani Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
*''Kunwar Nārāin: Upasthiti-II'' (Presence: Select articles on Kunwar Narain and his writings), ed. Y Mishra, 2002. Vani Prakashan.<br />
*''Kunwar Nārāin: Chunī Huī Kavitāyein'' (Selected Poems), ed. Suresh Salil, 2007. Medha Books, Delhi.<br />
*''Kunwar Nārāin: Pratinidhī Kavitāyein'' (Representative Poems), ed. Purshottam Agarwal, 2008. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.<br />
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==Awards and recognition==<br />
* [[Vyas Samman]] (1995)<br />
*[[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><br />
*[[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><br />
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==Foreign translations==<br />
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*''Modern Hindi Poetry: An Anthology'', ed. Vidya N. Misra, 1965, Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington & London. (English translation by Leonard Nathan & H M Guy)<br />
*''Tokyo University Journal'', No. 7, December 1972, Hindi Dept., Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies, Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo (Japanese translation by Toshio Tanaka)<br />
*''Der Ochsenkarren, Hindilyrik der siebziger und achtziger Jahre'', Zusammengestellt von Vishnu Khare & Lothar Lutze, Verlag Wolf Mersch, 1983 (German transl.)<br />
*''Kunvar Narayan, Naciketa, A cura di Mariola Offredi'', Plural Edizioni, Napoli. Collezione di Poesia I Cristalli, 1989, (Italian translation of Atmajayee)<br />
*''The Golden Waist Chain: Modern Hindi Short Stories'', ed. Sara Rai, 1990, Penguin. (English translation by Sara Rai)<br />
*''TriQuarterly 77'', Winter 1989/90, ed. Reginald Gibbons, 1990, Northwestern University, US (English translation by Vinay Dharwadker)<br />
*''Periplus: Poetry in Translation'', eds. Daniel Weissbort & Arvind K. Mehrotra, 1993, Oxford Univ. Press. (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet)<br />
*''The Penguin New Writing in India'', eds. Aditya Behl & David Nicholls, 1994, Penguin India, First published by Chicago Review (Vol. 38, Nos1 & 2), 1992<br />
*''Survival'', eds. Daniel Weissbort & Girdhar Rathi. Sahitya Akademi, India, 1994 (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet)<br />
*''The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry'', eds. Vinay Dharwadker & A.K. Ramanujan, 1994, Oxford University Press (English translations)<br />
*''Yatra 2: Writings from The Indian Subcontinent'', General Ed.: Alok Bhalla, Eds. Nirmal Verma & U R Ananthamurthy, 1994, Indus (English trans., Alok Bhalla)<br />
*''Living Literature: A Trilingual Documentation of Indo-German Literary Exchange'', eds. Barbara Lotz and Vishnu Khare (German translations)<br />
*''Gestures: Poetry from SAARC Countries'', Edited by K. Satchidanandan, 1996 (Reprint 2001), Sahitya Akademi, India (English)<br />
*''An Anthology of Modern Hindi Poetry'', ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, 1998, Rupa & Co., India (English translations)<br />
*''Dilli Mein Kavita'', ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, translated into Russian by Varyam Singh, 1999, Sahitya Kala Parishad, Delhi (Russian translations)<br />
*''Poeti Hindi: Antologia del Novecento, A cura di Mariola Offredi'', Casta Diva, Roma. 2000. Poesia, Collana diretta da Enrico D’Angelo (Italian translations)<br />
*''Kunvar Narayan, Nessuno è altro, A cura di Roberta Sequi'', Casta Diva, Roma. 2001. (Italian translation of Koee Doosra Nahin)<br />
*''Beyond Borders: An Anthology of SAARC Poetry'', eds. [[Ashok Vajpeyi]] & Ajeet Cour, 2002, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature & Rainbow Publishers.<br />
*''Ze współczesnej poezji Hindi, Przegląd Orientalistyczny'', vol. 202-203, no. 3-4, Warszawa, 2002, translated by Danuta Stasik. (Polish translations)<br />
*''Hindi: Handpicked Fictions'', Edited and translated by Sara Rai, 2003, Katha, Delhi. (English translations)<br />
*''New Poetry in Hindi'' (Nayi Kavita): An anthology edited, translated and introduced by Lucy Rosenstein, 2003, Permanent Black, Delhi. (English translations)<br />
*''Cracow Indological Studies Vol. 6'', ed. Renata Czekalska, Jagiellonian Univ., Kraków, 2005. (Polish translations, Renata Czekalska & Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś)<br />
*''Kunwar Narain, Varco di ombre, a cura di Tullia Baldassarri Höger von Högersthal'', edizione Mura, 2006 (Italian translation of selected poems)<br />
*''Ik zag de stad, Moderne Hindi-poëzie, Vertaald en ingeleid door Lodewijk Brunt & Dick Plukker'', Stichting India Instituut, Amsterdam, 2006 (Dutch translation)<br />
*''Teaching on India in Central and Eastern Europe'', eds. Danuta Stasik & Anna Trynkowska, Warsaw, 2007 (Polish translations by Danuta Stasik)<br />
*''Kunwar Narain, Przez Słowa, Antologia pod redakcją Renaty Czekalskiej i Agnieszki Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Księgarnia Akademicka'', Kraków, 2007 (Polish translation)<br />
*Kunwar Narain. ''No Other World: Selected Poems'', translated by Apurva Narain, Rupa & Co., India, 2008. (English translation)<br />
*Kunwar Narajan. ''Wiersze'', w przekładzie Danuty Stasik, DIALOG, Warszawa 2013 (Polish translation)<br />
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==References==<br />
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