Kamleshwar (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Kamleshwar (writer)

Indian writer

Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1932

Place of Birth: Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, India

Date of Death: 27-Jan-2007

Profession: screenwriter, author, journalist, novelist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Kamleshwar (writer)

  • Kamleshwarii (6 January 1932 – 27 January 2007) was a prominent 20th-century Hindi writer, and scriptwriter for Hindi cinema and television.
  • Among his most well-known work are the films Aandhi, Mausam, Chhoti Si Baat and Rang Birangi.
  • He was awarded the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award for his Hindi novel Kitne Pakistan (translated in English as Partitions), and also the Padma Bhushan in 2005.He is considered a part of the league of Hindi writers like Mohan Rakesh, Nirmal Verma, Rajendra Yadav and Bhisham Sahni, who left the old pre-independence literary preoccupations and presented the new sensibilities that reflected new moorings of a post-independence India, thus launching the Hindi literature's Nayi Kahani ("New Story") movement in the 1950s.

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