Upendranath Ashk

Upendranath Ashk (Hindi: उपेन्द्रनाथ अश्क, Upendranath ASK; born December 14, 1910 in Jalandhar, Punjab, † January 19, 1996 ) was an Indian writer, journalist and publisher, who initially wrote in Urdu, from the 1930s to Hindi. He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work with which he is one of the most important contemporary authors of the Hindu literature.

Life and work

Ashk comes from the middle class. He published his first poem in 1926 penned in Urdu While he lives in Lahore, he releases his first collection of short stories in Hindi. . Judai Ki Sham Ke Geet, 1933 Ashk writes for several newspapers and magazines. From 1941 to 1945 he worked for All India Radio. While he lives in Bombay, he also writes screenplays and dialogues for the film, as well as translations into Hindi, including works by Dostoyevsky and O'Neill. Later he moved to the Hindu heart area and Allahabad where he founded the publishing house Nilabh Prakashan. 1965 Ashk is honored as a leading Hindu dramatist Sangeet Natak Akademi awarded the prestigious award. According to the Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature Ashk works as a playwright with satirical means more accurate characterization and modern stage technology. Among his " uninhibited " and " expressive " written novels it says, after more fanciful and romantic beginnings lay Ashk the " Inferno" of the mid- life and striving with his himself probably familiar desires and eccentricities only. His characters are real human beings now. Especially to Ashk devoted to the problems of Indian women and the youth, his novels Girtin Divaren (1947 ) and Garm Rakh (1952 ) deal with the Indian petty bourgeoisie.