The Music of Solitude
Brand: Harpercollins



Dimensions: 7.99 x 10 x 1.85 inches
ISBN-13: 978-9353024925
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9353024927
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Print length: 192 pages
Publication date: February 10, 2019
subtitle: Paperback – February 10, 2019
author: Visit Amazon's Krishna Sobti Page search results Krishna Sobti Vasudha Dalmia
review: Editorial Reviews About the Author Krishna Sobti is considered the grand dame of Hindi literature. Born in 1925 in Gujarat (now in west Pakistan), she received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama, and in 1996, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour given by the Akademi. Her 1966 novel Mitro Marajani is an unapologetic portrayal of a married woman s sexuality and took the world of Hindi literature by storm. She is also the recipient of the first Katha Chudamani Award 1999 for Lifetime Literary Achievement, apart from winning the Shiromani Award in 1981, Hindi Academy Award in 1982, Shalaka Award of the Hindi Academy Delhi, the Hutch-Crossword award for the English edition of Dil-o-Danish in 2005. Vasudha Dalmia is Professor Emerita of Hindi and Modern South Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where she also held the Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professorship in South and Southeast Asian Studies. She retired in 2014 as Yale University s first professor in Hindu Studies. Her monograph, The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-century Banaras (1997), studies the life and writings of a major Hindi writer of the nineteenth century as the focal point for an examination of the intricate links between politics, language, culture, religion and nationality. Her book on the Hindi novel Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India appeared in 2017.