Name Yagyadutt Sharma | ||
Yagyadutt Sharma (Hindi: यज्ञदत्त शर्मा; January 18, 1916 – 1993) was a Hindi novelist, writer and poet.
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Sharma Ji wrote more than 60 novels, 18 Samiksha Granth, 79 books on literature and two poetic works containing pre-historical, historical, social, national subjects. His writings are taken as a subject for researchers in many colleges and universities.
He received the first Soviet Land Nehru Award for his work Shilanyas in 1967, by the then Prime Minister of India Mrs. Indira Gandhi
Personal life and education
Born in a Brahmin family of Zamindars, in Faridnagar, Uttar Pradesh, he was a post graduate topper in Hindi literature from Allahabad University (1941). He had a love of writing; he shifted to Delhi in 1942 with his patriotic thoughts and non-political writings.