Name Krishna Vaid | Role Fiction writer | |
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Books Steps in darkness, The Sculptor in Exile, The Diary of a Maidservant, Technique in the tales of Henry, Bimal in Bog | ||
Chauthi Khidki [10mins] - DV Exercise FTII 2013 - by Sandeep Yadav
Krishna Baldev Vaid (Hindi: कृष्ण बलदेव वैद) (born 27 July 1927) is a Hindi fiction writer and playwright, noted for his experimental and iconoclastic narrative style.
Contents
- Chauthi Khidki 10mins DV Exercise FTII 2013 by Sandeep Yadav
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Novels
- Short story collections
- Story collections in English translation
- Plays
- Diaries
- Interviews
- Novels in English translation
- References
Early life
Vaid studied at Punjab and Harvard universities.
Career
He has taught at Indian and American universities. His work has been translated and published in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Japanese and several Indian languages. His works include Uska Bachpan (1957) translated into English by Vaid and published as Steps in Darkness ,Bimal Urf Jayen to Jayen Kahan translated into English as Bimal in Bog (1974) and Guzara Hua Zamana (1981) translated into English as The Broken Mirror.
Selected short stories in English translation were published as Silence and Other Stories ( Writer's Workshop, 1972),Dying Alone: A novella and Ten Short Stories (Penguin, 1992), and The Sculptor in Exile ( Penguin Books, 2014).
Personal life
After retirement as Professor of English from State University of New York, Potsdam. in 1985, Vaid lived in the US and divided his time between India and the US.