Mridula Garg

Mridula Garg is a famous Indian writer & author who writes in English and Hindi languages. She was born on October 25, 1938. Mridula Garg’s birthplace is Calcutta in West Bengal. She took a Master’s degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics in 1960. She has also worked as a teacher at the University of Delhi for three years, where she taught economics. She has in Indian citizenship. Her zodiac sign is Scorpio.

She pushed the boundaries of feminism and the perspectives and experience of feminist Muslim & Dalit women in her writings. She started writing stories & novels from a very young age. Her debut novel is “ Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop “Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop,” Mridula Garg’s first novel >> Read More... ,” published in 1975. In 1979, another novel, “Chittacobra,” was published, and she was arrested for obscenity in this novel. The case ran for two years and did not result in imprisonment. She has been a columnist. She has written on women’s issues, environment, literature, and child servitude. For five years (1985 – 1990), she has written a fortnightly column, Parivar in Ravivar magazine from Kolkata. She also wrote Kataksh (Satire) in India Today (Hindi) magazine for seven years (2003 – 2010).

Her many stories and novels have translated into Indian and foreign languages, including German, Japanese, Czech, and English. Her following works, Anitya novel translated into Marathi (2014) & English (2010), Miljul Mann novel translated into Urdu (2016), Punjabi (2017), Tamil (2018), Rajasthani (2018), and Telugu (2018) from the Hindi language. She has published over thirty books in Hindi and English, including novels, short story collections, plays, and essays. In April 1990, she was a research associate at the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, USA. She spoke on Hindi literature, criticism, and discrimination against women.

She has got awarded several awards, including Sahitya Sanman by the Hindi Academy in Delhi (1988), Sahitya Bhushan by the U.P. Hindi Sansthan (1999), the Maharaja Vir Singh Puraskar from the M.P. Sahitya Parishad in 1975 and 1993 for the works - Uske Hisse Ki Dhoop (novel) and Jaddo Ka Kaleen (play), Hellman-Hammet Grant for courageous writing by the Human Rights Watch in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... (2001), Vyas Sanman & Vagdevi Sanman for Kathgulab (2004), the Sahitya Akademy Award for Miljul Mann novel (2013), Ram Manohar Lohia Sanman Award from U.P Hindi Sansthan (2016), and Mira Smriti Sanman Award (2016). She has also been honoured for her lifetime contribution to literature in the Vishwa Hindi Sammelan in Suriname in 2003.