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| Born | Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena 6 January 1932 Mainpuri, United Provinces, British India |
| Died | 27 January 2007 (aged 75) Faridabad, Haryana, India |
| Pen name | Kamleshwar |
| Occupation | Writer, screenwriter and critic |
| Alma mater | University of Allahabad |
| Period | 1954–2006 |
| Genre | Novel, short story, essay, screenplay |
| Literary movement | Nayi Kahani |
| Notable works | Kitne Pakistan (2000) |
| Notable awards | Sahitya Akademi Award (2003) Padma Bhushan (2005) |
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Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena (6 January 1932 – 27 January 2007), known mononymously as Kamleshwar, was a 20th-century Indian writer who wrote in Hindi. He also worked as a screenwriter for Indian films and television industry. Among his most well-known works are the films Aandhi, Mausam, Chhoti Si Baat and Rang Birangi. He was awarded the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award for his Hindi novel Kitne Pakistan (translated in English as Partitions), and the Padma Bhushan in 2005.[1]
He is considered a part of the league of Hindi writers like Mohan Rakesh, Nirmal Verma, Rajendra Yadav and Bhisham Sahni, who left the old pre-independence literary preoccupations and presented the new sensibilities that reflected new moorings of a post-independence India, thus launching the Hindi literature's Nayi Kahani ("New Story") movement in the 1950s.[2]
- ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ^ Kamleshwar.. The Times of India, 29 January 2007.