Sunita Jain

Sunita Jain
Born 13 July 1940
Ambala district, Haryana, India
Occupation Short-story Writer
Novelist
Scholar
Years active Since 1962
Awards Padma Shri
The Vreeland Award (1969)
Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award
Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan Award
Delhi Hindi Academy Award
Nirala Namit Award
Sahityakar Samman
Mahadevi Varma Samman
Prabha Khetan Award
Brahmi Sundari Award
Sulochini Writer Award
UP Sahitya Bhushan Award
Website Website

Sunita Jain is an Indian scholar, novelist, short-story writer and poet of English and Hindi literature.[1][2] She is a former professor and the Head of the department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.[3] She has published over 60 books, in English and Hindi, besides translating many Jain writings into English.[1] She is featured in the Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English and is a recipient of The Vreeland Award (1969) and the Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award (1970 and 1971).[4] The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2004,[5]

Biography

Born in a Jain family on 13 July 1940 in the Ambala district of the Indian state of Haryana, Jain did her post-graduate studies at the State University of New York and secured a doctoral degree (PhD) from the University of Nebraska.[6] Returning to India, she joined the Indian Institute of Technology and became the Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, from where she superannuated in 2002 as the Professor of English. She started writing at the age of 22 and has published short-stories, novels and poems in Hindi and English.[7] Her works in English include A Girl of Her Age, a novel published in 2000[8] and two short-story anthologies, A Woman is Dead[9] and Eunuch of Time and Other Stories,[10] published in 1980 and 1982 respectively. She published seven poetry anthologies and some of those poems have been reprinted under the titles, Sensum: Collected Poems 1965-2000[11] and American Desi and Other Poems.[12] Besides, she has also written a book for children under the name, The Mango Tree (2002)[13] and literary criticism, John Steinbeck's Concept of Man : a Critical Study of his Novels.[14] Her short-stories have been included in two multi-writer short-story collections, Short Short Stories Universal (1993)[15] and Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Voices in English (1994).[16]

Jain's autobiography has been written in Hindi as also five novels, five short-story poem anthologies and several volumes of poetry collections. Her book, Inner Light (1999), is a five-volume book on religious thoughts and she has published a translated work, Premchand: A Life and Letters (1993).[4] Her other translated works include Confluence of Seasons (2010),[17] poems of Kalidasa and Mukti (2006), poems of Kshamasagar, a Jain holy person.[18] She received The Vreeland Award of the University of Nebraska in 1969 and Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award twice, in 1970 and 1971.[6][19] She was awarded Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan Award in 1979 and 1980, followed by Delhi Hindi Academy Award in 1996.[6] The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2004. She is a recipient of other honours such as Nirala Namit Award (1980), Sahityakar Samman (1996), Mahadevi Varma Samman (1997),[7] Prabha Khetan Award, Brahmi Sundari Award, Sulochini Writer Award and UP Sahitya Bhushan Award.[1]

Sunita Jain lives in New Delhi.[1]

Selected bibliography

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Dr. Sunita Jain". Jain Samaj. 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ Kanwar Dinesh Singh (2008). Contemporary Indian English Poetry: Comparing Male and Female Voices. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 208. ISBN 9788126908899.
  3. ↑ "Certificate" (PDF). Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. 28 December 2001. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Eugene Benson, L. W. Conolly (2004). Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Routledge. p. 1946. ISBN 9781134468485.
  5. ↑ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 Divya Mathura (Ed.) (2003). Aashaa: Hope/faith/trust : Short Stories by Indian Women Writers. Star Publications. p. 287. ISBN 9788176500753.
  7. 1 2 Rashmi Gaur (2003). Women's Writing. Sarup & Sons. p. 152. ISBN 9788176253963.
  8. ↑ Sunita Jain (2000). A Girl of Her Age. Atma Ram & Sons. p. 106. ASIN B0061SI354.
  9. ↑ Sunita Jain (1980). A Woman is Dead. Writers Workshop, Calcutta. p. 73. OCLC 612785046.
  10. ↑ Sunita Jain (2000). Sensum: Collected Poems 1965-2000. Myword! Press. p. 158. OCLC 156892219.
  11. ↑ Sunita Jain (2007). American Desi and Other Poems. Read Books. p. 72. ISBN 9788190475310.
  12. ↑ Sunita Jain (2002). The Mango Tree. Orient Blackswan. p. 25. ISBN 9788125022695.
  13. ↑ Sunita Jain (1979). John Steinbeck's Concept of Man : a Critical Study of his Novels. New Statesman Pub. Co. p. 101. OCLC 5945681.
  14. ↑ Reingard M. Nischik (1993). Short Short Stories Universal. Reclam, Ditzingen. ISBN 978-3150092972.
  15. ↑ Victor J. Ramraj (1994). Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Voices in English. Broadview Press. p. 528. ISBN 9781551110257.
  16. ↑ Kalidasa, Sunita Jain (translator) (2010). Confluence of Seasons. Kitābaghara Prakāśana. p. 180. ISBN 9789380146683.
  17. ↑ "Mukti: poems, ed. and tr. by Sunita Jain". Bibliaimpex. 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  18. ↑ "CONTEMPORARY INDIAN SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH". Sahitya Akademi. 2010. ISBN 9788172010591. Retrieved November 22, 2015.


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