Awards & Winners

Nirmal Verma

Date of Birth 03-April-1929
Place of Birth Shimla
(India, Himachal Pradesh)
Nationality India
Profession Writer, Translator, Novelist
Nirmal Verma was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of pioneers of ‘Nayi Kahani’ literary movement of Hindi literature, wherein his first collection of stories, ‘Parinde’ is considered its first signature. In his career spanning five decades and various forms of literature, like story, travelogue and essays, he penned five novels, eight short-story collections and nine books of non fiction, including essays and travelogues

Awards by Nirmal Verma

Check all the awards nominated and won by Nirmal Verma.

1999


Jnanpith Award
(Hindi)

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Neustadt International Prize for Literature

1985


Sahitya Akademi Award to Hindi writers
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