Ramesh Chandra Shah is an Indian poet, novelist, critic and the author of

Sahitya Academy Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

winning novel, ''Vinayak''. He was honoured by the

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in 2004 with

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, the fourth highest Indian civilian award.

Biography

Ramesh Chandra Shah was born on 1937 in the hilly village of

Almora Almora ( Kumaoni: ') is a municipal corporation and a cantonment town in the state of Uttarakhand, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Almora district. Almora is located on a ridge at the southern edge of the Kumaon Hills of the ...

in the Indian state of

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand (, ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2007), is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. The state is bordered by Himachal Pradesh to the n ...

in family with moderate financial means and educational background. He graduated from

Allahabad University The University of Allahabad is a Central University located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. It was established on 23 September 1887 by an act of Parliament and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance (INI). It is the 4th oldest mode ...

and secured his masters (MA) in English literature from the same university in 1960. He obtained a doctoral degree (PhD) on the thesis, '' Yeats and Eliot: Perspectives on India'', from Agra University. He began teaching in the high school at Barechhina (Uttaranchal) and later taught in remote colleges in the small towns of Sidhi and Panna in Madhya Pradesh before moving to Bhopal. He retired as HOD English Literature from Hamidia college in 1997. after which he chaired ''Nirala Srijnanpith'', a literary chair instituted by Bharat Bhavan till 2000. Shah is credited with several books composed of poems, short stories, travelogue, essays and novels. His first novel, ''Gobar Ganesh'', based on the lives of middle-class families in Almora, came out in 2004. ''Vinayak'', a 2011 work which is considered by many as an extension of his first novel, fetched him the

in 2014. Years earlier, the

honoured him with the civilian award of

. Shah survives his wife, Jyotsna Milan, a Mumbai born writer who died in 2014. He lives in Bhopal.

Books and publications

Novels * Gobarganesh * Kissa Gulam * Poorvapar * Aakhiri Din * Punarvaas * Aap Kahin Nahin Rehte Vibhooti Babu * Vinayak Short story anthologies * Jungle Mein Aag * Muhalle Mein Ravan * Maanpatr * Theater * Pratinidhi Kahaniyan * Katha Sanatan Poems * Kachue Ki Peeth Par * Harishchandra Aao * Nadi Bhaagti Aayi * Pyaare Muchkund Ko * Dekhte Hain Shabd Bhi Apna Samay * Chaak Par Samay * Bahuvacana Essays * Rachna Ke Badle * Shaitaan Ke Bahaane * Aadmi Ka Peda * Padhte Padhte * Svadharm Aur Kaalgati * Hindi Ki Duniya Mein * Ancestral Voices Plays * Maara Jaai Khusro * Matiyaburj Others * Ek Lambi Chaanh (travelogue) * Mere Sakshaatkaar (interviews)

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