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WRITER

Krishan Chander

1914 - 1977

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Krishan Chander (23 November 1914 – 8 March 1977) was an Indian Urdu and Hindi writer of short stories and novels. Some of his works have also been translated into English. He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections of short stories and scores of radio plays in Urdu, and later, after partition in 1947, took to writing in Hindi as well. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krishan Chander has received more than 219,410 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Krishan Chander is the 3,700th most popular writer (up from 4,513th in 2019), the 430th most popular biography from India (up from 506th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Krishan Chander ranks 3,700 out of 5,755Before him are Simin Daneshvar, Maurice Sachs, Laurens van der Post, Jorge Isaacs, Dennis Lehane, and Frederic W. H. Myers. After him are Picander, Marco Girolamo Vida, Andrejs Pumpurs, Kader Abdolah, Nagarjun, and Paul Goma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Krishan Chander ranks 206Before him are Ralph Erskine, Edmund Muskie, Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, Wolfgang Windgassen, Bertus Aafjes, and Shaken Aimanov. After him are Jacques Dufilho, Harold Russell, Marcel Kint, Henri Laborit, Sisowath Sirik Matak, and Jaap Bakema. Among people deceased in 1977, Krishan Chander ranks 139Before him are Siegfried Buback, Neco, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, Gummo Marx, Konstantin Fedin, and Willem Schermerhorn. After him are Eugen Schüfftan, Jean Duvieusart, Ilia Vekua, Vladimir Tributs, Martí Ventolrà, and Leila Hyams.

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In India

Among people born in India, Krishan Chander ranks 430 out of 1,493Before him are Jai Singh II (1688), Kumar Sanu (1957), Guru Har Krishan (1656), Jayalalithaa (1948), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), and Kamala Nehru (1899). After him are Nagarjun (1911), Fathima Beevi (1927), Arundhati Roy (1961), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), and Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Krishan Chander ranks 67Before him are Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), R. K. Narayan (1906), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Shibli Nomani (1857), Ibn Warraq (1946), and Altaf Hussain Hali (1837). After him are Nagarjun (1911), Arundhati Roy (1961), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Yashpal (1903), Nirmal Verma (1929), and Mahadev Desai (1892).