Ramesh Chandra Shah is an Indian poet, novelist, critic[1][2] and the author of Sahitya Academy Award winning novel, Vinayak.[3][4][5][6] He was honoured by the Government of India in 2004 with Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.[7]
Ramesh Chandra Shah | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1937 (age 86–87) Almora, Uttarakhand, India |
| Occupation | writer |
| Spouse | Jyotsna Milan |
| Awards | Padma Shri Sahitya Academy Award |
Biography
Ramesh Chandra Shah was born on 1937 in the hilly village of Almora in the Indian state of Uttarakhand[1][4][8] in family with moderate financial means and educational background.[4] He graduated from Allahabad University and secured his masters (MA) in English literature from the same university in 1960.[2] He obtained a doctoral degree (PhD) on the thesis, Yeats and Eliot: Perspectives on India,[2] from Agra University. He began teaching in the high school at Barechhina (Uttaranchal) and later taught in remote colleges in the small towns of Sidhi and Panna in Madhya Pradesh before moving to Bhopal. He retired as HOD English Literature from Hamidia college in 1997.[1][6] after which he chaired Nirala Srijnanpith, a literary chair instituted by Bharat Bhavan[9] till 2000.[1]
Shah is credited with several books composed of poems, short stories, travelogue, essays and novels.[10][11][12] His first novel, Gobar Ganesh,[13] based on the lives of middle-class families in Almora, came out in 2004.[6] Vinayak, a 2011 work which is considered by many as an extension of his first novel, fetched him the Sahitya Academy Award in 2014.[5][8] Years earlier, the Government of India honoured him with the civilian award of Padma Shri.[7]
Shah survives his wife, Jyotsna Milan,[14] a Mumbai born writer[15] who died in 2014.[4] He lives in Bhopal.[6][15]
Books and publications
Novels
Short story anthologies
Poems
Essays
Plays
Others
See also
References
Further reading
- Ramesh Chandra Shah (1998). Bahuvacana. Kitabhagahara. p. 235. ISBN 978-8170164029.
- Ramesh Chandra Shah (1992). Akhiri Dina. Vagdevi Prakashana. p. 119. ISBN 978-8185127361.
- Ramesh Chandra Shah (2001). Apa kahim nahim rahate Vibhuti Babu. Vagdevi Prakashana. p. 112. ISBN 978-8187482192.
- Ramesh Chandra Shah (2004). Gobar Ganesh. Rajkamal Prakashan. p. 331. ISBN 9788126708161.
- Ramesh Chandra Shah (2006). Ancestral Voices. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 87. ISBN 978-8120830547.* Ramesh Chandra Shah (2010). Katha Sanatan. Rajpal & Sons. ISBN 978-9350640036.
- Ramesh Chandra Shah (2011). Vinayak. Rajkamal Prakashan. ISBN 978-8126719921.
External links
- Mohan Lal (1992). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot (Volume 5). Sahitya Academy. p. 818. ISBN 9788126012213.
- Books by Ramesh Chandra Shah at Amazon.com
- Interview with Sameena (YouTube video). Sameena Ali Siddiqui. 14 December 2010.
- "Author Profile". Hindi Book Centre. 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
