Sumitranandan Pant
Sumitranandan Pant | |
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British India | |
Died | 28 December 1977 Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India | (aged 77)
Occupation | Writer, poet |
Nationality | Indian |
Education | Hindi Literature |
Subject | Sanskrit |
Notable awards | Padma Bhushan (1961) Jnanpith Award (1968) |
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Sumitranandan Pant (20 May 1900 – 28 December 1977)
Early life
His father served as the manager of a local tea garden, and was also a landholder, so Pant was never in want financially growing up. He grew up in the same village and always cherished a love for the beauty and flavor of rural India, which is evident in all his major works.
Pant enrolled in Queens College in Banaras in 1918. There he began reading the works of
Pant moved to Kalakankar in 1931. For nine years he lived a secluded life close to nature. Simultaneously he grew enamored with the works and thinking of Karl Marx and Mahatma Gandhi, dedicating several verses to them in the poetry he produced during this time.[1] Pant returned to Almora in 1941 where he attended drama classes at the Uday Shankar Cultural Centre. He also read Aurobindo's The Life Divine, which heavily influenced him. Three years later he moved to Madras and then to Pondicherry, attending Aurobindo's ashram. In 1946 he returned to Allahabad to resume his role among the country's other leading writers.
Literary career
He is considered one of the major poets of the
Apart from Chhayavaadi poems, Pant also wrote progressive, socialist, humanist poems and[3] philosophical (influenced by
Mahapran Nirala once remarked:
The most powerful thing in Pant Ji is that, like Shelley, he makes his composition mellifluous and tender by enriching it with numerous similes and metaphors.
— Mahapran Nirala, [1]
Awards
In 1960, Pant received the
In 1968, Pant became the first Hindi poet to receive the Jnanpith Award, considered to be India's highest accolade for literature. This was awarded to him for a collection of his most famous poems titled Chidambara.[1][4]
The Indian Government honored him with Padma Bhushan in 1961.[5][1]
Sumitra Nandan Pant composed the Kulgeet of the
Death
Pant died on 28 December 1977, at Allahabad (Prayagraj), Uttar Pradesh, India. His childhood house in Kausani has been converted into a museum. This museum displays his daily use articles, drafts of his poems, letters, his awards,books,stories etc.
References
- ^ ISBN 81-7450-647-0. Archived from the original(PDF) on 21 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ^ ISBN 978-0195643695
- ^ "Chhayavaadi Poet Sumitranandan Pant". Youtube.
- Jnanpith Website. Archived from the originalon 13 October 2007.
- ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.