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Hindi Author Krishna Sobti Dies At 93

Mumbai: Krishna Sobti a 93-year-old Eminent Hindi author died on Friday, Sobti took her last breath in Dehli hospital this morning.

She was admitted to the hospital from last two months, Ashok Maheshwari, a friend, and managing director of Rajkamal Prakashan were quoted by PTI saying.

“She was about to complete her 94 years in February, so an age factor was there no doubt. For the last one week she was in the ICU,” he said.

“Even after being extremely sick, she was very much aware of her thoughts, about what was happening in the society,” Maheshwari added.

Krishna Sobti was a Hindi fiction writer and essayist, who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama and in 1996, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest award of the Akademi. In 2017, she received the Jnanpith Award for her contribution to Indian literature.

Sobti is best known for her 1966 novel Mitro Marjani, an unapologetic portrayal of a married woman’s sexuality. She was also the recipient of the first Katha Chudamani Award, in 1999, for Lifetime Literary Achievement, apart from winning the Shiromani Award in 1981, Hindi Academy Award in 1982, Shalaka Award of the Hindi Academy Delhiand in 2008, her novel Samay Sargam was selected for Vyas Samman, instituted by the K. K. Birla Foundation

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