Mridula Garg

Mridula Garg (born 1938) is an Indian writer who writes in Hindi and English. She has published over 30 books in Hindi – novels, short story collections, plays and collections of essays – including several translated into English.

Biography Garg was raised in Delhi by her parents with five sisters and a brother, and began writing stories while she was a child. Several of her works have feminist themes, and she told The Hindu in 2010, "My writing is not feminist. One of the metaphors of womanhood is guilt, be it in sexual matters, in working woman or non-working. My women felt no guilt ever. It ruffled feathers. We have the cerebral part and the womb, which encompasses and empowers you but at the same time also tightens you. My kind of feminism is that each woman can be different." Anitya (Novel, 1980) Main Aur Main (Novel, 1984) Glacier Se (Short Stories, 1980) Urf Sam (Short Stories, 1986) Shahar Ke Naam (Short Stories, 1990) Charchit Kahanaian (Short Stories, 1993) Jadoo Ka Kaleen (Play, 1993) Teen Qaiden (Plays, 1995) Rang-Dhang (Essays, 1995) Kath Gulab (Novel, 1996)

Translations "Kathgulab" translated into Marathi (2008) and Malayalam (2010) "Anitya" translated into Marathi from Anitya(Hindi) 2014 "Main Aur Main" translated into Marathi (2016) from Hindi. "Miljul Mann" translated into Urdu (2016), Punjabi (2017), Tamil (2018), Telugu (2018) and Rajasthani (2018) from Hindi language. "Chittacobra" translated into Russian (2014). Sovpadeniye Publishing House. Moscow. Translated by Guzel Strelkova and Marina Parusova.

Awards Sahityakar Sanman, by the Hindi Academy, Delhi, (1988) Sahitya Bhushan, by the U.P. Hindi Sansthan (1999) Hellman-Hammet Grant for Courageous Writing by the Human Rights Watch, New York (2001) Honored for lifetime contribution to literature in the Vishwa Hindi Sammelan in Suriname in 2003. Vyas Samman, for an outstanding work of fiction in Hindi for Kathgulab (2004) Uske Hisse ki Dhoop (novel) and Jadoo Ka Kaleen (Play) awarded by the M.P. Sahitya Parishad in 1975 and 1993 respectively. Miljul Mann (novel) awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2013 Mira Smriti Samman award for distinguished contribution to contemporary Hindi literature (2016) Ram Manohar Lohia Samman from U.P Hindi Sansthan (2016) D. Litt. "Honoris Causa" from ITM University, Gwalior (2016)