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WRITER

Krishna Sobti

1925 - 2019

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Krishna Sobti (18 February 1925 – 25 January 2019) was an Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist. She 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 Marajani, 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 Delhi and in 2008, her novel Samay Sargam was selected for Vyas Samman, instituted by the K. K. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krishna Sobti has received more than 384,730 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Krishna Sobti is the 2,754th most popular writer (up from 3,412th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 49th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Pakistani Writer.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.58

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  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Krishna Sobti ranks 2,754 out of 5,755. Before her are Kostis Palamas, Heinrich von Veldeke, Alda Merini, John Wyndham, Gerard Reve, and Étienne Pivert de Senancour. After her are Julius Pomponius Laetus, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Jeff Lindsay, Paul Gallico, Luis Cernuda, and Yuan Mei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Krishna Sobti ranks 179. Before her are Farley Granger, Giovanni Spadolini, Julie Harris, Edward Gorey, Michael Dummett, and Serge Dassault. After her are Kalle Svensson, June Whitfield, Klaus Roth, Yuli Daniel, Emilio Eduardo Massera, and Scott Carpenter. Among people deceased in 2019, Krishna Sobti ranks 167. Before her are Jörg Demus, Marie-José Nat, Goro Shimura, Sogyal Rinpoche, Sylvia Miles, and José Luis Brown. After her are Vonda N. McIntyre, Peggy Lipton, Momir Bulatović, Sven Lindqvist, Prosper Grech, and Seymour Cassel.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Krishna Sobti ranks 43 out of 180. Before her are Asif Ali Zardari (1955), Dilip Kumar (1922), Amrita Pritam (1919), Taxiles (-400), Milkha Singh (1935), and Yahya Khan (1914). After her are Lokaksema (147), Rahman Baba (1632), I. K. Gujral (1919), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Francis Younghusband (1863), and Raja Dahir (663).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Krishna Sobti ranks 5. Before her are Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Vasubandhu (400), Khushal Khattak (1613), and Amrita Pritam (1919). After her are Rahman Baba (1632), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Tariq Ali (1943), Khushwant Singh (1915), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Parveen Shakir (1952).

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