Shiv K. Kumar

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Shiv K. Kumar


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Lahore, Pakistan
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Shiv K. Kumar--poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, translator and critic--was born in Lahore. He holds a doctorate in English from the University of Cambridge. He has received many awards for his literary achievements. In 1978, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (London), and in 2001 he was awarded Padma Bhushan in recognition of his eminence as a writer. In 1988, he received the Sahitya Akademi award for his collection of poems Trapfalls in the Sky which has been translated into Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada. Shiv K. Kumar has published seven collections of poems, five novels, two collections of short stories, a play and several books of literary criticism. He has translated some works of Fai ...more

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عارياً أمام الآلهة

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Train To Delhi

3.19 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Short Stories of Yesterday ...

3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1998
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The Mahabharata

3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Contemporary Indian Short S...

3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions
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Rough Passage to the Bodhi ...

3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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Bergson and the Stream of C...

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River With Three Banks

3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1998
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Two Mirrors at the Ashram

3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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Bone's Prayer

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