Uday Prakash Explained

Uday Prakash
Birth Date:1952 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India
Education:M.A., BSc
Genre:Novels, poetry, translation articles, TV and films

Uday Prakash (born 1 January 1952) is a Hindi poet, scholar,[1] journalist, translator and short story writer from India.He has worked as administrator, editor, researcher, and TV director. He writes for major dailies and periodicals as a freelancer. He has also received several awards for his collection of short stories and poems. With Mohan Das he received Sahitya Academi Awards in 2011.[2] [3] He is the first author to return his Sahitya Akademi award on September 3, 2015 against the killing of M. M. Kalburgi that initiated a storm of national protests by writers, artists,scholars and intellectuals.[4]

Personal life

Background

Prakash was born on 1 January 1952, in the backward village of Sitapur, Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh, India.[5] He was raised by and given primary education there by a teacher.[6] [7] He graduated in Science and obtained his master's degree in Hindi Literature, receiving a Gold Medal from Saugar University in 1974.[5] From 1975 to 1976, he was a research student at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU);[8] He was imprisoned as a passionate communist party member.[9] He later lost interest in political ideology.[7]

Career

In 1978 Prakash taught as an assistant professor at JNU,[10] and its Imphal Center for Post Graduate Studies. In 1980 he left academia, to become Officer-on-Special-Duty with the Madhya Pradesh Department of Culture. At the same time, he was Controlling Officer of the Bhopal Rabindra Bhawan, and assistant editor of Poorvagraha, a journal of Hindi literary criticism. (He was later critical of the Hindi literary establishment including Ashok Vajpeyi, who he worked for at Poorvagraha.)[11]

From 1982 to 1990, Prakash worked in New Delhi newspapers; first as a subeditor of the Hindi news weekly Dinmaan,[12] and later as Assistant Editor of the Sunday Mail.[5] In 1987 becoming assistant professor at the School of Social Journalism (on deputation). In 1990 he joined ITV, (Independent Television), and became head of the PTI TV Concept and Script Department. Since 1993, he has been a full-time freelance writer.[5]

Prakash was the editor of the monthly English language magazine "Eminence" (published in Bangalore) until April 2000.

He also participated in the international poetry festivals and seminars.[13] [14] [15]

He has also made documentary films with Sahitya Akademi, like on Dharamvir Bharti.[16] Prakash returned his Sahitya Akademi award in 2015, to protest the murder of rationalist academic M. M. Kalburgi.[17]

Bibliography

Peelee Chhatri Wali Ladki (2001)[18] is Prakash's best known,[19] and longest continuous story.[20] Often called a "novella",[21] [22] [23] Prakash calls it "a long short story"[24] – Cheeni Baba will be his "first novel".[25] His 2006 novella Mohan Das has been translated into English,[26] seven Indian languages,[27] and adapted by the author for the "Mohandas" screenplay (2009).[28] [29] [30]

Poetry collections

Short story collectionsHe is most famous as a short story writer, with well-known work like Warren Hastings ka Saand, and its stage version by director Arvind Gaur.

Non-fiction

Translations by Prakash

Prakash has translated works by many International poets and writers into Hindi, including Pablo Neruda, Federico García Lorca, H. Luis Borges, Paul Éluard, C.P. Cavafy, Adam Jędrzejewski, and Tadeusz Różewicz. Some notable examples:

His translation of Milorad Pavić's novel Landscape painted with tea is forthcoming.[35]

Translations of Prakash's work

He is read in all Indian languages, and his translated fiction regularly features in English and German collections,[40] magazines, and complete texts:

  1. Rage, Revelry and Romance : Translated by Robert Hueckstedt, 2003[41] [42]
  2. Der Goldene Gürtel : Translated by Lothar Lutze, 2007[43]
  3. Short shorts, long shots : Translated by Robert Hueckstedt and Amit Tripuraneni[44]
  4. The Girl With the Golden Parasol : Translated by Jason Grunebaum, published by Penguin India, 2008.[45] (Grunebaum received a 2005 PEN grant for the translation.[46] [47]). It is available in other languages, including three separate Urdu translations,[35] and German.[48]
  5. Doktor Wakankar. Aus dem Leben eines aufrechten Hindus : Prize-winning translation of Aur Ant Mein Prarthana Translated into German (by Andre Penz).[34]
  6. The Walls of Delhi : Translated to English by Jason Grunebaum, 2012. A collection of three stories.
  7. Mohandas: Translated to Maithili by Vinit Utpal, 2013, published from Sahitya Academy, New Delhi, India

Films and media

'Sahitya Akademi film's on writers

Prakash has produced several films about important Hindi writers such as Ram Vilas Sharma.[49]

In an interview, Varun Grover, the lyricist of the 2015 movie Masaan, recounted that they had wanted to use one of Uday Prakash's compositions titled "Kuch Ban Jate Hain" (from Abootar Abootar).[50] The song was set to music, but at the end was not include in the film. Ultimately another song "Tu Kisi Rail Si" was used in its place (based on a poem by Dushyant Kumar).[51] [52] [53]

Awards

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A Conversation with Uday Prakash, part 4. Another Subcontinent. Arnab Chakladar . Uday Prakash: Basically, I see myself as a poet first. .
  2. News: Sahitya Akademi awards announced . . 21 December 2010 .
  3. News: Uday Prakash, M P Veerendra Kumar among Sahitya Akademi Award winners . Net Indian . 21 December 2010 .
  4. Jyoti Malhotra . December 24, 2015 . Write to protest. 2021-11-25. India Today. en.
  5. Web site: Language is a Means of Existence . 6 September 2007 . Another Subcontinent . www.anothersubcontinent.com . 24 May 2010 . in 1970 I saw electricity first come to my village—at the time I was quite grown up. Before that we lived in a situation where modernity had no meaning.
  6. Web site: Exiled from Poetry and Country: Uday Prakash . 3 . 24 May 2010 . Rahul Soni .
  7. Kumar . Ashok . 13 December 1999 . Uday Prakash, 47 . India Today . 27 May 2010 . 24 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034423/http://www.india-today.com/itoday/19991213/uday.html . dead . (from Faces of the Millennium .)
  8. Web site: Exiled from Poetry and Country . 5 . Pratilipi bilingual quarterly magazine . December 2009 . 24 May 2010 . I read, in its library, a story... I can never forget that story. .
  9. Sengupta . Amit . 25 February 2006 . The Sharp-Eyed Seer . I never got a job in the academic structure, they divided all the jobs between the Left and the Right . Tehelka Magazine .
  10. Web site: UDAY PRAKASH (India) . Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature . 24 May 2010.
  11. Web site: The Literary Mafia . A. . Prakash . Y. P. . Rajesh . 24 May 2010 . 1 November 1995 . 'Nobody takes Vajpeyi seriously in Hindi literature. History will remember him as a culture czar who doled out patronage,' says Prakash .
  12. Web site: Uday Prakash's Profile . Muse India . 24 May 2010 . 1 November 1995 . one of the most popular as well as controversial writers in Hindi .
  13. Web site: No. It's now the language of liberation . Economic Times Debate . The Economic Times. 24 May 2010 . 27 April 2009 . 98% of the apex body of the organisers of VHS belonged to one Hindu caste and its sub-castes. That was the fact about this world language! .
  14. Web site: Outgoing Visitors Programme . Annual report 2007 . Indian Council for Cultural Relations . 24 May 2010 . Shri Uday Prakash, Eminent Writer . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090807092701/http://www.iccrindia.org/annualreport07/An_Annexure-VIII.htm . 7 August 2009 .
  15. Web site: Saarc festival of literature. 26 May 2010. 22 April 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120422224106/http://foundationsaarcwriters.com/Detail.aspx?id=FESTIVAL%20OF%20LITERATURE-II&type=FESTIVAL%20OF%20LITERATURE. dead.
  16. Web site: 'youtube link'. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/4lSi0c3fqoE . 2021-12-15 . live. YouTube.
  17. Web site: 'The writer feels more isolated than ever before': Hindi writer Uday Prakash. Indian Express. 2 October 2016. 2 October 2016.
  18. Book: Prakash, Uday . Vani Prakashan . 3 March 2001 . पीली छतरी वाली लड़की . The Girl With the Golden Parasol . 81-7055-754-2 . 156 . 27 May 2010 . 4 March 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120304184632/http://pustak.org/bs/home.php?bookid=2898 . dead .
  19. Prakash . Uday . 17 June 2006 . The one from the tribe . Tehelka Magazine . Anant Media . Uday Prakash is a celebrated Hindi writer best known for Pili Chatri Wali Ladki .
  20. Ramesh . K. K. . 31 May 2008 . Parasol With Wings . Tehelka Magazine . 5 . 21 .
  21. Web site: Page-turners . 26 December 2005 . . Sen . Swagata .
  22. Novus Press . 371 . 2006 . Acta Orientalia Review . Acta Orientalia . 67 . the novella deals with the impact of globalisation on Indian society . 145082687 .
  23. Web site: Das Mädchen mit dem gelben Schirm und andere Werke von Uday Prakash . The Girl With the Golden Parasol and other works by Uday Prakash . 26 May 2010 . de . Ines Fornell.
  24. Web site: Hindi Fiction Writer and Playwright, India. .
  25. 29 March 2008 . CULTURE & SOCIETY first look . Tehelka Magazine . 5 . 12 .
  26. Translated by Pratik Kanjilal, published in "The Little Magazine", New Delhi
  27. Web site: Yangesh: Uday Prakash's interpreter . Subel bhandari . 22 May 2009 . República . 24 May 2010 . Uday Prakash, known for his style, has his book translated in eight different languages already. – Other translations by: Haider Jafri Syed (Urdu), Yagyesh (Nepali), Rabinder Singh Bath (Punjabi), Vanita Sawant (Marathi), Manu Dash (Oriya), R.P. Hegade (Kannada), and Venugopalan (Telugu)
  28. Web site: Mohandas – Hindi – Movie Reviews . . 27 May 2010 . dares to raise uncomfortable questions that feel-good Bollywood prefers to ignore these days. . Ghosh . 3 September 2009 . Avijit .
  29. Web site: DNA India . The bigger picture . Ankit Ajmera . 6 September 2009 . It was the mystery element in the story that really intrigued me .
  30. Web site: Mohandas team.
  31. Book: Prakash, U. . Vani Prakashan . Raat mein harmonium . 978-81-7055-625-1 . 1998.
  32. Book: Prakash, Uday . Ek bhasha hua karti hai . 2011 . Kitabghar Prakashan . 9789380146003 .
  33. Book: Prakash, Uday . Tirichh . 12 May 1989 . Vāṇī Prakāśana . 978-81-7055-169-0 . (alternatively: "Trich")
  34. Book: Prakash, U. . Vani . Aur Anth Mein Prarthana . 2006 . 978-81-8143-600-9. - (Doktor Wakankar : Story of an Upright Hindu). The German Translation placed third by the international jury in the 2009 World Book Fair, Frankfurt, in the 'Best Seven' from Latin America, Africa and Asia category.
  35. Web site: A Conversation with Uday Prakash part 3 . Arnab Chakladar . 24 May 2010.
  36. Book: Prakash, Uday . Yatra Buksa . Areba-Pareba . 2006 . 978-0-14-306191-5. (Or "Areba Pareba")
  37. Gokhale . Namita . 17 June 2006 . Master takes . Tehelka Magazine .
  38. Book: Tully . Sir Mark . Mark Tully . Jacob . Satish . Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi's Last Battle . first . April 1991 . South Asia Books . 978-0-8364-2826-1 .
  39. Web site: Uday Prakash's Warren Hastings ka Saand (Asmitatheatre) . 25 May 2010 . Asmitatheatre . 21 March 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090321055902/http://sites.google.com/site/asmitatheatre/uday-prakash-s-warren-hastings--ka-saand . dead .
  40. For example: The Walls of Delhi (Jason Grunebaum translation) in Book: Uday . Prakash . Hirsh . Sawhney . Delhi Noir . Akashic Noir . August 2009 . Akashic Books . 978-1-933354-78-1 . 246 . registration .
  41. Book: Prakash . Uday . Rage, Revelry and Romance . 2003 . Srishti . 81-88575-10-0 . 216 . collection of thirteen stories .
  42. Book: Rage, revelry & romance . New Delhi : Srishti Publishers & Distributors. 55077657.
  43. Book: Prakāśa . Udaya . Der Goldene Gürtel . The Golden waist-chain . April 2007 . Draupadi . Heidelberg . de . 978-3-937603-14-8 . Moderne indische Literatur . Aus dem Hindi von Lothar Lutze
  44. Book: Short shorts, long shots . Udaya Prakāśa . 2003 . Kathā . New Delhi . Katha trailblazer series . 978-81-87649-73-1 . 12 . 55629602. He is a humanist, as many communists have always been .
  45. Web site: From The Girl with the Golden Parasol by Uday Prakash . Jason Grunebaum . 1 March 2010 . The quarterly conversation . 24 May 2010 . Uday Prakash has been publishing fiction and poetry for over two decades in addition to an active career as a journalist, translator, playwright, producer, director and writer for film and television.
  46. Web site: 2005 PEN Translation Fund Grant Recipients . This wildly postmodern narrative tells, among others, the uproarious tale of a young man's all-consuming passion for the Bollywood starlet featured in the poster on his bedroom wall. . 24 May 2010.
  47. Web site: Jason Grunebaum . 25 May 2010 . 12 May 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120512223931/http://creativewriting.uchicago.edu/faculty/ . dead .
  48. As Das Maedchen mit dem gelben Schirm : Translated by Ines Fornell, Heinz Werner Wessler and Reinhald Schein (Peeli Chhatari Wali Ladki)
  49. Book: Short shorts, long shots . Udaya Prakāśa . 2003 . 978-81-87649-73-1 . 212 . Katha .
  50. News: Hindi Kavita – Kuch ban jaate hain – Uday Prakash: Varun Grover in Hindi Studio with Manish Gupta . Hindi Kavita . 25 October 2015.
  51. News: Lakhani . Somya . Secret Love: How Hindi poetry has become 'cool' . 17 April 2019 . The Indian Express. 11 September 2016.
  52. Web site: Pal . Sanchari . Meet the NRI Who Returned To India To Make Millions Fall in Love with Hindi Poetry . www.thebetterindia.com . 14 September 2016 . The Better India . 17 April 2019.
  53. News: Grover . Varun . How the magic of Dushyant Kumar's poetry inspired this Bollywood lyricist . 17 April 2019 . The Indian Express.
  54. Web site: उदय प्रकाश / Uday Prakash . Pratilipi bilingual quarterly magazine . Awarded for the poem "Tibet"
  55. Book: Amaresh, Datta . The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature . 301 . 1 . [awarded to] the best poem of the year penned by a young author (of not more than 35 years of age). . 1987 . New Delhi . Sahitya Akademi . 34346316 .
  56. 1990 . AWARDS . Vidura . C. Sarkar . Press Institute of India. 27 . 52 .
  57. Web site: About Uday Prakash . anothersubcontinent.com . 25 May 2010 .
  58. Web site: Hindi Literature .
  59. Web site: Saarc literary awards . 24 May 2010 .
  60. Web site: DSC Prize 2013 shortlist announced . . Supriya Nair . 21 November 2012 . 21 November 2012.
  61. Web site: Edition 2013 . Jan Michalski Foundation . 14 September 2013.

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