1. Krishna Sobti was an Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist.
23 Facts About Krishna Sobti
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Krishna Sobti won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama and in 1996, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest award of the Akademi.
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Krishna Sobti's publications have been translated to multiple Indian and foreign languages such as Swedish, Russian and English.
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Krishna Sobti attended school along with her three siblings, and her family worked for the colonial British government.
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Krishna Sobti initially began her higher education at Fatehchand College in Lahore, but returned to India when the Partition of India took place.
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Shivnath died a few years later, and Krishna Sobti continued to reside alone in the same apartment.
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Krishna Sobti died on 25 January 2019, in Delhi after a long illness.
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Krishna Sobti's writing style and idiom, as her choice of subjects, has attracted some amount of criticism.
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Krishna Sobti's publications have been translated to multiple Indian and foreign languages such as Swedish, Russian and English.
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Krishna Sobti initially established herself as a writer of short stories, with her stories Lama, and Nafisa being published in 1944.
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Krishna Sobti has cited this incident as confirming her choice to write professionally.
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Krishna Sobti submitted the manuscript of her first novel, titled Channa, to the Leader Press in Allahabad in 1952.
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The manuscript was accepted and printed Krishna Sobti found on receiving proofs that the Press had made textual alterations, and consequently sent them a telegram asking them to cease printing.
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Krishna Sobti has said that the alterations included linguistic changes that altered her use of Punjabi and Urdu words to Sanskrit words.
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Krishna Sobti withdrew the book from publication, and paid to have the printed copies destroyed.
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Krishna Sobti was persuaded by Sheela Sandhu, publisher at Rajkamal Prakashan, to revisit the manuscript, and it was published by Rajkamal Prakashan as Zindaginama: Zinda Rukh in 1979 after extensive rewriting.
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Krishna Sobti went on to win the Sahitya Akademi Award for Zindaginama in 1980.
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Krishna Sobti filed a suit in 1984 for damages against Pritam, claiming that Pritam had violated her copyright through the use of a similar title.
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Krishna Sobti has since expressed disappointment at the outcome of the suit, noting that her original plan of writing Zindaginama as part of a trilogy was interrupted by the litigation.
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Krishna Sobti has written a novel that is a fictionalised autobiography, titled Gujrat Pakistan Se Gujarat Hindustan Taq.
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Krishna Sobti won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Zindaginama in 1980.
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Krishna Sobti was appointed a Fellow of the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, in 1996.
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Krishna Sobti was a recipient of Shiromani Award, Maithili Sharan Gupt Samman and other awards.