Chaman Nahal
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| Born | 1927 Sahitya Academy Award (1977)Federation of Indian Publishers award, (1977) Federation of Indian Publishers award, (1979) |
Chaman Nahal commonly known as C Nahal, and Chaman Nahal Azadi, was an Indian born writer of English literature. He was widely considered one of the best exponents of Indian writing in English and is known for his work, Azadi, which is set on India's Independence and her partition.[1] He is also known for his depiction of Mahatma Gandhi as a complex character with human failings.[citation needed]
Life and career
Chaman Nahal was born in
List of works
Novels
| Work | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|
| My True Faces | Orient |
1973 |
| Into Another Dawn | Sterling | 1977 |
| The English Queens | Vision | 1979 |
| Sunrise in Fiji | Allied | 1988 |
| Azadi (Freedom) | Arnold-Heinemann & Boston Houghton Mifflin |
1975 |
| The Crown and the Loincloth | Vikas | 1981 |
| The Salt of Life | Allied | 1990 |
| The Triumph of the Tricolour | Allied | 1993 |
| The Gandhi Quartet | Allied | 1993 |
Short story collection
| Work | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Weird Dance and Other Stories | Arya | 1965 |
Uncollected short stories
| Work | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|
| "Tons" | The Statesman | 1977 |
| "The Light on the Lake" | Illustrated Weekly of India |
1984 |
| "The Take Over" | Debonair | 1984 |
Others
| Work | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|
Moby Dick (for children), adaptation of the novel by Herman Melville |
Eurasia | 1965 |
| A Conversation with J. Krishnamurti |
Arya | 1965 |
D.H. Lawrence : An Eastern View |
South Brunswick, NJ, A.S. Barnes |
1971 |
| The Narrative Pattern in Ernest Hemingway's Fiction | Vikas New Delhi & Rutherford, New Jersey Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
1971 |
| Drugs and the Other Self: An Anthology of Spiritual Transformations | Harper | 1971 |
| The New Literatures in English | Allied | 1985 |
The Bhagavad Gita |
Pitamber | 1987 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru as a Man of Letters | Allied | 1990 |
Bibliography
In The New Literatures in English, 1985
Critical Studies on Chaman Nahal
| Work | Author/editor | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Literature in the Curriculum | K.L. Goodwin | University of Queensland Press | 1980 |
| Introduction to The Crown and the Loincloth | A Komorov | Raduga | 1984 |
| Three Contemporary Novelists: Khushwant Singh, Chaman Nahal, and Salman Rushdie |
R.K. Dhawan | Classical | 1985 |
Memoir
| Work | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Life | Roli Books | 2005 |
Children's novels
| Work | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Akela and the Blue Monster | Aruvik & Allied | 2007 |
| Akela and the Asian Tsunami | Aruvik & Allied | 2009 |
| Akela and the UFOs | Aruvik & Allied | 2009 |
Literary review
Chaman Nahal's writings are known to talk about India without any touch of exoticism. Azadi, his novel on the partition of India, is widely considered to be the best of the Indian-English novels written about the traumatic partition which accompanied Indian Independence in 1947 (Quoted from '’Train to Pakistan – Azadi : Vice-versa Journey'’ by Dr. Mangalkumar R. Patil). An autobiographical book, Silent Life, was originally written in English and later translated into 12 languages, including Russian, Hungarian and Sinhalese.[citation needed]
Awards and honours
| Award | Year |
|---|---|
| Sahitya Akademi Award | 1977 |
| Federation of Indian Publishers award | 1977 |
| Federation of Indian Publishers award | 1979 |
References
- ^ "Azadi – Some Bitter Realities of Past by Prof. Shubha Tiwari". Boloji.com. 6 February 2012. Archived from the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
