Upendranath Ashk

Upendranath Ashk
Born14 December 1910
Jalandhar, Punjab, British India
Died19 January 1996(1996-01-19) (aged 85)
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Occupation(s)novelist, short story writer and playwright
AwardsSangeet Natak Akademi Award (1965), Soviet Land Nehru Award (1972), Iqbal Award (1996)[1]

Upendranath Sharma "Ashk", (14 December 1910 – 19 January 1996)[2][3][4] was an Indian novelist, short story writer and playwright.[5] He was born in Jalandhar, Punjab.[6] In 1933 he wrote his second short story collection in Urdu called Aurat Ki Fitrat, the foreword of which was written by Munshi Premchand. Ashk began his literary career writing in Urdu but he switched to Hindi on the advice of Munshi Premchand. He joined All India Radio in 1941[5] where Krishan Chander, Patras Bokhari and Saadat Hasan Manto[7][8] were among his colleagues. He settled in Allahabad in the late 1940s.[9] He was the first Hindi dramatist[1] to receive the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for playwriting in 1965.[10]

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  5. ^ a b Amaresh Datta (1987). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo. Sahitya Akademi. p. 244. ISBN 978-81-260-1803-1. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
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  7. ^ Sisir Kumar Das (1 January 1995). History of Indian Literature: 1911–1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy. Sahitya Akademi. pp. 169–. ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  8. ^ "'Main chalta phirta Bumbai hoon': Manto and Mumbai". IBN Live. Archived from the original on 21 December 2012.
  9. ^ Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. "Urdu and Persian Literature in Allahabad". Retrieved 16 January 2013.
  10. ^ "Theatre – Playwriting (Language-wise) – Hindi". Sangeet Natak Akademi. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2012.