Mridula Garg 

India - South AsiaGenres Fiction, Novels, Short Stories, Translator, Drama/Script writing, Journalist, Literary Journalist, EssaysLanguages English, Hindi

Mridula Garg (b. 1938) is one of the most widely read Hindi writers today. She has published 20 books in Hindi – novels, short story collections, plays and collections of essay – of which she has rendered three into English. She took her Masters in Economics in 1960 and taught economics in Delhi University for three years.

Her novels have won critical and popular acclaim for the audacity of their themes and the lyricism of their style. Her novels and stories have been translated into a number of Indian and foreign languages like German, Czech, Japanese and English.

She has been a columnist, writing on environment, women issues, child

servitude and literature. She has been writing a column Kataksh (Satire) in India Today (Hindi) for the last 3 years.

She was a research associate at the Centre for South Asian Studies in the University of California at Berkeley, USA in April 1990. She has been invited to speak on Hindi literature and criticism, and discrimination against women, at Universities and conferences in the USA. As a delegate to Interlit-3 (Germany) and to Japan, she has traveled widely and lectured and read from her works there.

AwardsSahityakar Sanman, by the Hindi Academy, Delhi, (1988)Sahitya Bhushan, by the U.P. Hindi Sansthan (1999)Hellman-Hammet Grant for Courageous Writing by the Human Rights Watch, New York (2001)Honored for lifetime contribution to literature in the Vishwa Hindi Sammelan in Suriname in 2003. Vyas Sanman, for an outstanding work of fiction in Hindi for Kathgulab (2004)

Vagdevi Sanman for Kathgulab (2003)Uske Hisse ki Dhoop (novel) and Jadoo Ka Kaleen (Play) awarded by the M.P. Sahitya Parishad in 1975 and 1993 respectively.

BibliographyIn Hindi: Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop (Novel, 1975) Vanshaj (Novel, 1976) Chittacobra (Novel, 1979)Anitya (Novel, 1980) Main Aur Main (Novel, 1984) Kath Gulab (Novel, 1996) Kitni Qaiden (Short Stories, 1975)Tukra-Tukra Aadmi (Short Stories, 1976)Daffodil Jal Rahein Hain (Short Stories, 1978)Glacier Se (Short Stories, 1980)Urf Sam (Short Stories, 1986)Shahar Ke Naam (Short Stories, 1990)Charchit Kahanaian (Short Stories, 1993)Samagam (Short Stories, 1996)Mere Desh Ki Mitti, Aha (Short Stories, 2001)Sangati-Visangti (in 2 Vol.) (Short Stories, 2004)Joote ka Jodh Gobhi ka Todh (Short

Stories, 2006)Ek Aur Ajnabi (Play, 1978) Jadoo Ka Kaleen (Play, 1993)Teen Qaiden (Plays, 1995)Saam Daam Dand Bhed (Play for children, 2003)Rang-Dhang (Essays, 1995)Chukte Nahin Sawaal (Essays, 1999)Kuchh Atke Kuchh Bhatke (Yatra Samsaran, Essays, 1996)Kar Lenge Sab Hazam (Satirical Essays)

In English:The Colour of my Being (Novel, translated from Hindi, Chittacobra, 1999)A Touch of Sun (Novel, translated from Hindi, Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop, 1978)Country of Goodbyes (Novel, translated from Hindi, Kathgulab, 2003)Daffodils of Fire (Short Stories, 1990)

TranslationsThe Colour of my Being (Novel, translated from Hindi, Chittacobra, 1999)A Touch of Sun (Novel, translated

from Hindi, Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop, 1978)Country of Goodbyes (Novel, translated from Hindi, Kathgulab, 2003)

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