Geetanjali Shree

Geetanjali Shree (actually Geetanjali Pandey; born June 12, 1957 in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, India) is an Indian writer, she lives and works in New Delhi.

Life

Geetanjali Shree grew up on the changing service offices in North India as the daughter of an official of the Indian Administrative Service. With Hindi as their mother tongue and an English-speaking school and higher education, it is in both languages ​​at home. She studied recent Indian history and initially began an academic career as a historian and social scientist. In English, she published four scientific papers on the role of intellectuals and writers in the context of the Indian independence movement of the 20th century. These studies were published under her real name Geetanjali Pandey.

Increasingly, her interest turned then to the narrative and dramatic literature, and she began a second career as a writer. The author's name Geetanjali Shree, which they used for their written in Hindi literary texts, is a combination of her own name and her mother's first name. Since 1991, she has published four novels and four volumes of short stories. Since 1993 she has been working with the Vivadi Theatre together in Delhi, for which she has so far written four stage adaptations of works by other authors.

Outside the Hindi -language literary scene of India was mainly due to the English translation published in 2000 her debut novel " Mai" (1993 ) is known, in which she portrays three generations of a family and the changing social role patterns illuminated. In the center of the novel is Mai, the mother of the narrator, at first glance, only a weak and oppressed woman. This was followed by translations of " MAY" in other languages. A German edition of this novel and a selection of short stories published during Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg.

Literary works (selection)

In German translation

  • 2006 Finis. Short story. Translated by Rainer Kimmig, in: The insomnia Delhi and other realities. Word travels through a continent, Bremerhaven 2006 ( = " that hear ", issue 223)
  • 2010 May A novel. Translated by Reinhold bill, Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg
  • 2010 White hibiscus. Narratives. Translated by Anna Petersdorf, Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg
  • 2013 Our Town in that year. Novel. Translated by André Penz, Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg

Theses

  • Premchand on Industrialism: A Study in Attitudinal Ambivalence, Indian Economic & Social History Review, Vol 19, No. 2, 201-212 (1982)
  • Premchand and the Peasantry: Constrained Radicalism, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 18, No. 26 (Jun. 25, 1983), pp. 1149-1155 1983
  • The North Indian intelligentsia and the Hindu - Muslim Question, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 19, No. 38 (Sep. 22, 1984), pp. 1664-1670 1989
  • Between Two Worlds: An Intellectual Biography of Premchand, New Delhi: Manohar, 1989
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