Sahitya Akademi Award Winning English Novels

The present volume, co-edited by Dr Vivekanand Jha and Dr Rajnish Mishra, is a collection of scholarly, critical and research writings on the Sahitya Akademi Award Winning novels in English contributed by renowned scholars and those novels are: R. K. Narayan's The Guide, Raja Rao's The Serpent and the Rope, Mulk Raj Anand's Morning Face, Chaman Nahal's Azadi, Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain, Rama Mehta's Inside the Haveli, Arun Joshi's The Last Labyrinth, Nayantara Sahgal's Rich Like Us, Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate, Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines, Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence, Amit Chaudhuri's A New World, Rupa Bajwa's The Sari Shop, Malathi Rao's Disorderly Women and Esther David's The Book of Rachel. The inclusion of three interviews with the three Sahitya Akademi Award Winning English novelists gives a fresh fillip to this anthology. The eminent contributors of the anthology are R. Gandhi Subramanian, Brindashree Raghavan, Indu Swami, S. B. Bhambar, Maumita Chaudhuri, C.G. Shyamala, Satendra Kumar, Kakali Bhattacharyya, Manisha Mishra, Prasanta Chakraborty, Preethi Nair, Vandana Singh, Darshita Dave, S. Somasundari Latha, RJ Kalpana, Dipanita Gargava, Narayan Jena, Pramod Kumar Das, Rashmi Jain, Jyotsha Sinha Qudsi Rizvi, Vinay Kumar Dubey, Megha Jain, Shruti Kikani, Ajit Kumar, Ramesh P. Chavan, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Lakshmi Krishnan, Ambrose Musiyiwa, Rajnish Mishra and Vivekanand Jha.

Dr Vivekanand Jha is a translator, editor and award winning poet. He is the author of 05 books of poetry in English. 01 critical book on the poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra and has edited.09 critical anthologies on Indian English Writing. His poems have been published in more than 100 magazines and 25 poetry anthologies round the world. He has also edited The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India to be published by Hidden Brook Press, Canada. He is the son of the noted professor, poet and award winning translator Dr. Rajanand Jha (Crowned with Sahitya Akademi Award, New Delhi).

Dr. Rajnish Mishra is an Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Science and Humanities, IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has co-edited six critical anthologies on Indian English Literature. He is presently working on the psychogeographical effect of his city, Varanasi, in both creative and critical media.

The Sahitya Akademi makes a resounding presence in the world of literary arena for organizing various workshops, literary gatherings and a great number of seminars at all the three levels regional, national and international. The emphasis has been laid upon ensuring transparency in giving away the prize and therefore the award has to pass through the critical gaze of President & Vice President of Sahitya Akademi, members nominated by the Government of India, representatives of the States of the Union of India and Union Territories, representatives of the languages recognized by the Sahitya Akademi, representatives of the Universities of India, persons elected by the General Council, members of advisory board and members Finance Committee.

Sahitya Akademi has multi-role functionality in salvaging the pride and history of Indian literature and besides conferring awards it establishes a rapport, co-operation and co-ordination. among men of letters for the flourishing of literature in the various Indian languages. In pursuit of doing so it facilitates. fellowship awards to the authors of eminence; promotes: translations of Indian as well as non-Indian languages from one to another; sponsors conferences, seminars and exhibitions of variegated kinds and categories; supports research and dissertation in various Indian languages and literature; extends hands in exchanging cultural ties within and outside the countries; and publishes or assists the authors in pursuing their goal of publishing their literary works with adequate remunerations and recognitions. It has the credit of publishing more than 4000 titles in various literary genres of various languages including novels, poetry, short stories, history of literature, biographies, bibliographies, autobiographies, memoirs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, vocabularies etc. in various Indian languages. Like the other regional languages the Sahitya Akademi deemed English language too as its inseparable part and conferred awards in all the genres of Indian writing in English. The novels in English capture major chunk of this prize and out of 40 awards given to all English genre, 19 awards went to novels only.

The need of this book arose to fulfill the burgeoning demands of dissertations on the award winning novels in English. The present volume explores Sahitya Akademi Award Winning novels in English and these novels are: R. K. Narayan's The Guide, Raja Rao's The Serpent and the Rope, Mulk Raj Anand's Morning Face, Chaman Nahal's Azadi, Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain, Rama Mehta's Inside the Haveli, Arun Joshi's The Last Labyrinth, Nayantara Sahgal's Rich Like Us, Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate, Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines, Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence, Amit Chaudhuri's A New World, Rupa Bajwa's The Sari Shop, Malathi Rao's Disorderly Women and Esther David's The Book of Rachel.

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