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Jnanpith Award winner Vinod Kumar Shukla dies at 88: ‘He took reality as it is and made magic’

December 24, 2025 5:54 am

Shukla’s literary career spanned more than five decades, during which he produced poetry, short stories, novels and essays that resisted easy classification.

Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla, first from Chhattisgarh to win Jnanpith Award, dies at 88

December 24, 2025 3:28 am

Earlier this year, Shukla was awarded the 59th Jnanpith Award for his contributions to Hindi Literature. The award is the highest literary honour given to writers who have excelled in literature in different Indian languages.

Mumbai Litfest to honour literary giants Vinod Kumar Shukla and Sitanshu Yashaschandra

October 08, 2025 12:16 pm

The Literature Live! The Mumbai Litfest, by Godrej Industries Group, celebrates the works of two well-known Indian voices who have defined the texture of Indian writing

‘A storyteller of hope & light’: Vinod Kumar Shukla wins Jnanpith award

March 23, 2025 7:42 am

He said in a statement after the announcement, “I’ve seen a lot (in life), heard a lot and felt a lot but I could write only a little"

Vinod Kumar Shukla: A writer beyond genres

March 02, 2023 7:09 am

Shukla’s work, winner of PEN award, captures the ebb and flow of life, comforting and capricious at the same time

Inside the wondrous world of writer Vinod Kumar Shukla

February 16, 2020 8:39 pm

The pathbreaking Hindi writer and poet, who is now being discovered by English readers and award juries, on failing Hindi tests and writing to become a better human being.

I have tried to use words with care: Vinod Kumar Shukla

February 22, 2015 1:00 am

Hindi poet and writer Vinod Kumar Shukla on the thin line between imagination and reality and why an author’s body of work needs to be looked at in continuum.

Book review: Once It Flowers

October 13, 2014 1:20 pm

Shukla has termed Once It Flowers the “most incompletely finished” of his novels.

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