| 词条 | Sunita Jain |
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| name = Sunita Jain | image = File:SunitaJainBW.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = 13 July 1940 | birth_place = Ambala district, Haryana, India | death_date = 11 December 2017 | death_place = New Delhi | restingplace = | restingplacecoordinates = | othername = | occupation = Poet, Short Story Writer, Novelist, Scholar, Professor, Hindi English Bilingual writer | yearsactive = Since 1962 | education = BA, MA, Ph.D | alma_mater = Indraprastha College for Women (BA); Stony Brook University (MA); University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Ph.D) | known for = | spouse = Adishwar Lal Jain | domesticpartner = | children = Anu K. Mittal, Ravi K. Jain, Shashi K. Jain | parents = | website = {{Url|http://www.padmashrisunitajain.com|Website}} | awards = Padma Shri The Vreeland Award (1969) Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan Award Delhi Hindi Academy Award Nirala Namit Award Sahityakar Samman Mahadevi Varma Samman Prabha Khetan Award Brahmi Sundari Award Sulochini Writer Award UP Sahitya Bhushan Award The Vyas Samman Award (2015) }} Sunita Jain is an Indian scholar, novelist, short-story writer and poet of English and Hindi literature.[1][2] She is a former professor and the Head of the department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.[3] She has published over 60 books, in English and Hindi, besides translating many Jain writings into English.[1] She is featured in the Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English and is a recipient of The Vreeland Award (1969) and the Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award (1970 and 1971).[4] The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2004.[5] In 2015 she was awarded the Vyas Samman by the K.K. Birla foundation for outstanding literary work in Hindi. BiographyEarly lifeBorn in a Jain family on 13 July 1940 in the Ambala district of the Indian state of Haryana, Sunita’s family moved to Delhi when she was a teenager.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} She completed her B.A. from Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi at the age of 18.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} She married in Delhi soon after she graduated and left for Cleveland, OH, U.S. with her husband, after which spend short stints in Zurich, Switzerland and New Delhi, India, before settling in Stony Brook, Long Island in 1965. Jain did her post-graduate studies at the State University of New York in American English Literature. In 1968 she moved to Lincoln, Nrbraska where she secured a doctoral degree (PhD) from the University of Nebraska.[6] Career as an Educator{{BLP unsourced section|date= April 2018}}Returning to India in 1972, after a short teaching stints at Indraprastha College and Aurobindo College, she joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and became the Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, from where she superannuated in 2002 as the Professor of English. While at IIT, Delhi, she encouraged the expansion of the Humanities department and was instrumental in broadening the degree programs to include a Masters and Ph.D program. WritingShe started writing at the age of 22 and has published short-stories, novels and poems in Hindi and English.[7] Her works in English include A Girl of Her Age, a novel published in 2000[8] and two short-story anthologies, A Woman is Dead[9] and Eunuch of Time and Other Stories,[10] published in 1980 and 1982 respectively. She published seven poetry anthologies and some of those poems have been reprinted under the titles, Sensum: Collected Poems 1965-2000[11] and American Desi and Other Poems.[12] Besides, she has also written a book for children under the name, The Mango Tree (2002)[13] and literary criticism, John Steinbeck's Concept of Man : a Critical Study of his Novels.[14] Her short-stories have been included in two multi-writer short-story collections, Short Short Stories Universal (1993)[15] and Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Voices in English (1994).[16] Jain's autobiography has been written in Hindi as also five novels, five short-story poem anthologies and several volumes of poetry collections. Her book, Inner Light (1999), is a five-volume book on religious thoughts and she has published a translated work, Premchand: A Life and Letters (1993).[4] Her other translated works include Confluence of Seasons (2010),[17] poems of Kalidasa and Mukti (2006), poems of Kshamasagar, a Jain holy person.[18] AwardsShe received The Vreeland Award of the University of Nebraska in 1969 and Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award twice, in 1970 and 1971.[6][19] She was awarded Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan Award in 1979 and 1980, followed by Delhi Hindi Academy Award in 1996.[6] The Government of India awarded her the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2004. She is a recipient of other honours such as Nirala Namit Award (1980), Sahityakar Samman (1996), Mahadevi Varma Samman (1997),[7] Prabha Khetan Award, Brahmi Sundari Award, Sulochini Writer Award and UP Sahitya Bhushan Award.[1] In 2015 she was awarded the Vyas Samman by the K.K. Birla foundation for outstanding literary work in Hindi.{{Citation needed|date= April 2018}} DeathJain died in New Delhi on 11 December 2017 after a short battle with a rare blood disorder.[1] ArchivesSunita Jain's collection of writings, awards, private papers etc. are part of the permanent collection in the archives of Jamia Millia Islamia University at the Premchand Archives & Literary Centre http://jmi.ac.in/jpalc/collections[1] Selected English bibliography
Selected Hindi bibliography
See also
References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web | url=http://www.jainsamaj.org/rpg_site/literature2.php?id=1027&cat=62 | title=Dr. Sunita Jain | publisher=Jain Samaj | date=2015 | accessdate=22 November 2015}} 2. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=52GGtEiyPeAC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=sunita+jain+autobiography&source=bl&ots=L2x1wtnjpT&sig=Lss-e4z9uIC6450-Lrco3BZPETA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIyqyowqTJAhXJBBoKHY92C20Q6AEIUjAJ#v=onepage&q=sunita%20jain%20autobiography&f=false | title=Contemporary Indian English Poetry: Comparing Male and Female Voices | publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist | author=Kanwar Dinesh Singh | year=2008 | pages=208 | isbn=9788126908899}} 3. ^{{cite web | url=http://eprint.iitd.ac.in/bitstream/2074/5780/1/TH-2882.pdf | title=Certificate | publisher=Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi | date=28 December 2001 | accessdate=22 November 2015}} 4. ^1 {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nGfMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA725&lpg=PA725&dq=Marie+Sandoz+Prairie+Schooner+Fiction+Award+Sunita+jain&source=bl&ots=JiLC_QAR7f&sig=NitlpG2n55eOFx1v9QP2xM_QzmE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJv_P9tKTJAhXShhoKHYaRBUgQ6AEIJzAD#v=onepage&q=Marie%20Sandoz%20Prairie%20Schooner%20Fiction%20Award%20Sunita%20jain&f=false | title=Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English | publisher=Routledge | author=Eugene Benson, L. W. Conolly | year=2004 | pages=1946 | isbn=9781134468485}} 5. ^{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | accessdate=21 July 2015}} 6. ^1 2 {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQSwvro50oUC&pg=PA261&lpg=PA261&dq=Marie+Sandoz+Prairie+Schooner+Fiction+Award+Sunita+jain&source=bl&ots=8AZGlK1oUm&sig=X8qjtyV2l6ab6b1z4ES2QRXamRQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJv_P9tKTJAhXShhoKHYaRBUgQ6AEIJDAC#v=onepage&q=Marie%20Sandoz%20Prairie%20Schooner%20Fiction%20Award%20Sunita%20jain&f=false | title=Aashaa: Hope/faith/trust : Short Stories by Indian Women Writers | publisher=Star Publications | author=Divya Mathura (Ed.) | year=2003 | pages=287 | isbn=9788176500753}} 7. ^1 {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ydi9TEQJqD0C&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=Marie+Sandoz+Prairie+Schooner+Fiction+Award+Sunita+jain&source=bl&ots=dJBnnm_Tli&sig=nO5Q31eUKaIazcJALM0ycVdkk8E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJv_P9tKTJAhXShhoKHYaRBUgQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Marie%20Sandoz%20Prairie%20Schooner%20Fiction%20Award%20Sunita%20jain&f=false | title=Women's Writing | publisher=Sarup & Sons | author=Rashmi Gaur | year=2003 | pages=152 | isbn=9788176253963}} 8. ^{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Her-Age-Sunita-Jain/dp/B0061SI354 | title=A Girl of Her Age | publisher=Atma Ram & Sons | author=Sunita Jain | year=2000 | pages=106 | ASIN=B0061SI354}} 9. ^{{cite book | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/woman-is-dead-stories/oclc/612785046 | title=A Woman is Dead | publisher=Writers Workshop, Calcutta | author=Sunita Jain | year=1980 | pages=73 | OCLC=612785046}} 10. ^{{cite book | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/eunuch-of-time-and-other-stories/oclc/10111432&referer=brief_results | title=Eunuch of Time and Other Stories | publisher=Vikas Publishers | author=Sunita Jain | year=1982 | pages=83 | isbn=9780706918816}} 11. ^{{cite book | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/sensum-collected-poems-1965-2000/oclc/156892219 | title=Sensum: Collected Poems 1965-2000 | publisher=Myword! Press | author=Sunita Jain | year=2000 | pages=158 | OCLC=156892219}} 12. ^{{cite book | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/american-desi-and-other-poems/oclc/177858266&referer=brief_results | title=American Desi and Other Poems | publisher=Read Books | author=Sunita Jain | year=2007 | pages=72 | isbn=9788190475310}} 13. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9072J0LM0ZkC&dq=%22The+Mango+Tree%22+sunita+Jain&source=gbs_navlinks_s | title=The Mango Tree | publisher=Orient Blackswan | author=Sunita Jain | year=2002 | pages=25 | isbn=9788125022695}} 14. ^{{cite book | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/john-steinbecks-concept-of-man-a-critical-study-of-his-novels/oclc/5945681&referer=brief_results | title=John Steinbeck's Concept of Man : a Critical Study of his Novels | publisher=New Statesman Pub. Co | author=Sunita Jain | year=1979 | pages=101 | OCLC=5945681}} 15. ^{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/Short-Stories-Universal-Reingard-Nischik/dp/3150092973 | title=Short Short Stories Universal | publisher=Reclam, Ditzingen | author=Reingard M. Nischik | year=1993 | isbn=978-3150092972}} 16. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Concert_of_Voices.html?id=thgJR6g0Go4C&redir_esc=y | title=Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Voices in English | publisher=Broadview Press | author=Victor J. Ramraj | year=1994 | pages=528 | isbn=9781551110257}} 17. ^{{cite book | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/confluence-of-seasons-rtusamhara/oclc/665050402 | title=Confluence of Seasons | publisher=Kitābaghara Prakāśana | author=Kalidasa, Sunita Jain (translator) | year=2010 | pages=180 | isbn=9789380146683}} 18. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.bibliaimpex.com/index.php?p=sr&Uc=35461&l=0 | title=Mukti: poems, ed. and tr. by Sunita Jain | publisher=Bibliaimpex | date=2015 | accessdate=22 November 2015}} 19. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.printsasia.in/book/contemporary-indian-short-stories-in-english-arun-joshi-dina-mehta-khwaja-8172010591-9788172010591 | title=CONTEMPORARY INDIAN SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH | publisher=Sahitya Akademi | date=2010 | accessdate=22 November 2015 | ISBN=9788172010591}} External links
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