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Rahul Sankrityayan
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Krishna Sobti
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Mridula Garg
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Chitra Mudgal
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Detailed explanation-1: -Krishna Sobti (18 February 1925 – 25 January 2019) was an Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama and in 1996, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest award of the Akademi.
Detailed explanation-2: -Legendary Hindi writer Krishna Sobti passed away on 25 January 2019. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Jnanpith award. She is considered as the Grande Dame of Hindi literature. ‘Zindaginama’ is considered to be one of her most acclaimed works.
Detailed explanation-3: -Zindaginama is a reflection of pre-partitioned Punjab in its totality with legends, lore, myths and traditions. Krishna Sobti’s epic Zindaginama is an expansive and intricate novel written about Indian life during the troubled years of British imperialism.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sobti has also written a novel that is a fictionalised autobiography, titled Gujrat Pakistan Se Gujarat Hindustan Taq (From Gujrat, Pakistan, to Gujarat, India). Her most recent novel is Dil-o-Danish (Heart and Mind).