15 Facts About Sunita Jain

Sunita Jain was an Indian scholar, novelist, short-story writer and poet of English and Hindi literature.

Sunita Jain was a former professor and the Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Sunita Jain published over 80 books, in English and Hindi, besides translating many Jain writings and some Hindi literature into English.

Sunita Jain is featured in the Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English and was a recipient of The Vreeland Award and the Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award.

Sunita Jain married in Delhi soon after she graduated and left for Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband, after which she spent short stints in Zurich, Switzerland and New Delhi, India, before settling in Stony Brook, Long Island, in 1965.

Sunita Jain started writing at the age of 22 and has published short stories, novels and poems in Hindi and English.

Sunita Jain's short-stories have been included in two multi-writer short-story collections, Short Short Stories Universal and Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Voices in English.

Sunita Jain's style was personal with very strong feminist underpinnings.

Sunita Jain wrote in very refined, pure Hindi, garnering significant recognition and accolades from the Hindi literature community in India and world over.

Sunita Jain's autobiography has been written in Hindi as five novels, nine short-story collections, and over fifty poem anthologies and several volumes of poetry collections.

Sunita Jain's writing has been reviewed and referenced in dozens of publications as well as being the subject of many research publications and doctoral thesis.

Sunita Jain received The Vreeland Award of the University of Nebraska in 1969 and Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award twice, in 1970 and 1971.

Sunita Jain was awarded the Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan Award in 1979 and 1980, followed by the Delhi Hindi Academy Award in 1996.

Sunita Jain is a recipient of other honors such as Nirala Namit Award, Sahityakar Samman, Mahadevi Varma Samman, Prabha Khetan Award, Brahmi Sundari Award, Sulochini Writer Award and UP Sahitya Bhushan Award.

Sunita Jain died in New Delhi on 11 December 2017 after a short battle with a rare blood disorder.