Team News Riveting
Raipur, December 23
Vinod Kumar Shukla, a prominent Hindi writer and recipient of the Bharatiya Jnanpith Award, passed away today at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Raipur.
He was 88 years old and was admitted in the critical care unit for the past few days. AIIMS officials announced his demise Tuesday evening. Shukla was suffering from severe respiratory disease.
Born on January 1, 1937, Shukla was a modern Hindi writer known for his style that often borders on magic-realism. His works include the novels Naukar ki Kameez (which has been made into the film of the same name by Mani Kaul) and Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi (A Window lived in a Wall), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the best Hindi work in 1999. This novel has been made into a stage play by theatre director Mohan Maharishi.
He became the first Indian author to receive the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature in 2023. In 2024, he became the first Chhattisgarhi to receive the Jnanpith Award.
