1. Rajendra Yadav was a Hindi fiction writer, and a pioneer of the 'Nayi Kahani' movement of Hindi literature.
10 Facts About Rajendra Yadav
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Rajendra Yadav's wife Manu Bhandari was a notable Hindi writer and novelist.
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Rajendra Yadav was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh on 28 August 1929.
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Rajendra Yadav received his early education at Agra, and later studied at Mawana, Meerut.
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Rajendra Yadav graduated in 1949, and later completed his MA in Hindi at Agra University in 1951.
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Rajendra Yadav wrote two more novels, Kulta, and Shaah aur Maat.
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Rajendra Yadav wrote several stories and translated into Hindi many works of Russian language writers like Turgenev, Chekhov, and Lermontov, as Albert Camus.
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Ek Inch Muskaan, which Rajendra Yadav and wife Mannu Bhandari wrote together, is a love tragedy of schizophrenic individuals.
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Rajendra Yadav was awarded Yash Bharati Award of year 2013 by Government of Uttar Pradesh.
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Rajendra Yadav was a strong advocate of freedom of expression and expressed the opinion that the refusal of Hindi writer-editors to publish good, but controversial, literature, had directly led to the flourishing of little magazines that would publish such works.