Death
He died on 15 November 2017 at the age of 90.Works
Poetry
* ''Chakravyūh'' (Circular Siege), 1956. Radhakrishan, Delhi (first published by Rajkamal Prakashan). * ''Tīsrā Saptak'' (Third Heptad), seven poets, ed. Agyeya, 1959. Bharatiya Jnanpith, Delhi. * P: Hum-Tum (Surroundings: Us-You), 1961. Vani Prakashan, Delhi (first published by Bharti Bhandar, Allahabad). * ''Apné Sāmné'' (In Front of Us), 1979. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi. * ''Koī Dūsrā Nahīn'' (No One the Other), 1993. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi. * ''In Dino'' (These Days), 2002. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi. * ''Vājaśravā ke bahāne'', 2008 * ''Hāśiye kā gavāh'', 2009Epic poems
* ''Ātmajayī'' (Self-Conqueror), based on the Upanishadic episode of Nachikétā in Kathopnishad, 1965. Bharatiya Jnanpith, Delhi. * ''Vājashravā Ké Bahāné'' (On Vajashrava's Pretext), independent poems linked to Ātmajayī's context, 2008. Bharatiya Jnanpith.Fiction
* Ākāron Ké Ās-Pās (Near-about Shapes), a collection of short stories, 1973. Radhakrishan Prakashan, Delhi.Criticism
* ''Āj Aur Āj Sé Pahlé'' (Today and Before Today), 1998. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi. * ''Méré Sākshātkār'' (My Interviews), interviews given by Kunwar Narain, ed. Vinod Bhardwaj, 1999. Kitabghar Prakashan, Delhi. * ''Sāhitya Ké Kuchh Antar-Vishayak Sandarbh'' (Some Interdisciplinary Contexts of Literature), XIV Samvatsar Lecture, 2003. Sahitya Akademi.Translations
* ''Selected poems of and essay on Constantine Cavafy'', 'Tanāv', 1986 and Jorge-Luis Borges, 'Tanāv', 1987. * ''Selected poems of Stéphane Mallarmé'', Tadeusz Różewicz, Derek Walcott, Zbigniew Herbert, Anna Świrszczyńska, etc.Compilations
* ''Kunwar Nārāin: Sansār-I'' (World: Select writings of Kunwar Narain), ed. Yatindra Mishra, 2002. Vani Prakashan, Delhi. *''Kunwar Nārāin: Upasthiti-II'' (Presence: Select articles on Kunwar Narain and his writings), ed. Y Mishra, 2002. Vani Prakashan. *''Kunwar Nārāin: Chunī Huī Kavitāyein'' (Selected Poems), ed. Suresh Salil, 2007. Medha Books, Delhi. *''Kunwar Nārāin: Pratinidhī Kavitāyein'' (Representative Poems), ed. Purshottam Agarwal, 2008. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.Awards and recognition
*Foreign translations
*''Modern Hindi Poetry: An Anthology'', ed. Vidya N. Misra, 1965, Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington & London. (English translation by Leonard Nathan & H M Guy) *''Tokyo University Journal'', No. 7, December 1972, Hindi Dept., Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies, Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo (Japanese translation by Toshio Tanaka) *''Der Ochsenkarren, Hindilyrik der siebziger und achtziger Jahre'', Zusammengestellt von Vishnu Khare & Lothar Lutze, Verlag Wolf Mersch, 1983 (German transl.) *''Kunvar Narayan, Naciketa, A cura di Mariola Offredi'', Plural Edizioni, Napoli. Collezione di Poesia I Cristalli, 1989, (Italian translation of Atmajayee) *''The Golden Waist Chain: Modern Hindi Short Stories'', ed. Sara Rai, 1990, Penguin. (English translation by Sara Rai) *''TriQuarterly 77'', Winter 1989/90, ed. Reginald Gibbons, 1990, Northwestern University, US (English translation by Vinay Dharwadker) *''Periplus: Poetry in Translation'', eds. Daniel Weissbort & Arvind K. Mehrotra, 1993, Oxford Univ. Press. (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet) *''The Penguin New Writing in India'', eds. Aditya Behl & David Nicholls, 1994, Penguin India, First published by Chicago Review (Vol. 38, Nos1 & 2), 1992 *''Survival'', eds. Daniel Weissbort & Girdhar Rathi. Sahitya Akademi, India, 1994 (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet) *''The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry'', eds. Vinay Dharwadker & A.K. Ramanujan, 1994, Oxford University Press (English translations) *''Yatra 2: Writings from The Indian Subcontinent'', General Ed.: Alok Bhalla, Eds. Nirmal Verma & U R Ananthamurthy, 1994, Indus (English trans., Alok Bhalla) *''Living Literature: A Trilingual Documentation of Indo-German Literary Exchange'', eds. Barbara Lotz and Vishnu Khare (German translations) *''Gestures: Poetry from SAARC Countries'', Edited by K. Satchidanandan, 1996 (Reprint 2001), Sahitya Akademi, India (English) *''An Anthology of Modern Hindi Poetry'', ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, 1998, Rupa & Co., India (English translations) *''Dilli Mein Kavita'', ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, translated into Russian by Varyam Singh, 1999, Sahitya Kala Parishad, Delhi (Russian translations) *''Poeti Hindi: Antologia del Novecento, A cura di Mariola Offredi'', Casta Diva, Roma. 2000. Poesia, Collana diretta da Enrico D’Angelo (Italian translations) *''Kunvar Narayan, Nessuno è altro, A cura di Roberta Sequi'', Casta Diva, Roma. 2001. (Italian translation of Koee Doosra Nahin) *''Beyond Borders: An Anthology of SAARC Poetry'', eds. Ashok Vajpeyi & Ajeet Cour, 2002, Academy of Fine Arts and Literature & Rainbow Publishers. *''Ze współczesnej poezji Hindi, Przegląd Orientalistyczny'', vol. 202-203, no. 3-4, Warszawa, 2002, translated by Danuta Stasik. (Polish translations) *''Hindi: Handpicked Fictions'', Edited and translated by Sara Rai, 2003, Katha, Delhi. (English translations) *''New Poetry in Hindi'' (Nayi Kavita): An anthology edited, translated and introduced by Lucy Rosenstein, 2003, Permanent Black, Delhi. (English translations) *''Cracow Indological Studies Vol. 6'', ed. Renata Czekalska, Jagiellonian Univ., Kraków, 2005. (Polish translations, Renata Czekalska & Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś) *''Kunwar Narain, Varco di ombre, a cura di Tullia Baldassarri Höger von Högersthal'', edizione Mura, 2006 (Italian translation of selected poems) *''Ik zag de stad, Moderne Hindi-poëzie, Vertaald en ingeleid door Lodewijk Brunt & Dick Plukker'', Stichting India Instituut, Amsterdam, 2006 (Dutch translation) *''Teaching on India in Central and Eastern Europe'', eds. Danuta Stasik & Anna Trynkowska, Warsaw, 2007 (Polish translations by Danuta Stasik) *''Kunwar Narain, Przez Słowa, Antologia pod redakcją Renaty Czekalskiej i Agnieszki Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Księgarnia Akademicka'', Kraków, 2007 (Polish translation) *Kunwar Narain. ''No Other World: Selected Poems'', translated by Apurva Narain, Rupa & Co., India, 2008. (English translation) *Kunwar Narajan. ''Wiersze'', w przekładzie Danuty Stasik, DIALOG, Warszawa 2013 (Polish translation)References
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