Nasira Sharma
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Born | 1948 (age 75–76) Allahabad, India |
Language | Hindi, English, Persian |
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Genre | Hindi literature, literary fiction |
Years active | 1976-present |
Notable awards | Sahitya Akademi Award 2015 |
Nasera Sharma (born 1948) is an Indian writer who writes in Hindi.[1]
Biography
[edit]She was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
She has published 10 Hindi-language novels. Some of the books are- Parijat, Mere Priya Kahaniyaan, Ajnabi Jajira, Patthar Gali and Aurat Ke Liye Aurat.
She was the only woman from South Asia to interview Ruhollah Khomeini after he came into power.[2]
Awards
[edit]She won a Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel Paarijat.[3]
She won Vyas Samman for her novel Kagaz ki Naav in 2019.
References
[edit]- ^ "Nasira Sharma". Hindi Urdu Flagship. University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
- ^ "Meeting Ayatollah Khomeini and the mystery behind Iran's Child Soldiers". 11 February 2019.
- ^ "24 writers including Nasira Sharma, Jerry Pinto get Sahitya Akademi awards". Deccan Chronicle. 21 December 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
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