Mamta Kalia

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'''Mamta Kalia''' (born 2 November 1940) is an [[India|Indian]] author, teacher, and poet, writing primarily in the [[Hindi]] language.<ref name=":0">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

== Life ==
Kalia was born in [[Vrindavan]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], and studied in Delhi, earning an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in English from the [[University of Delhi]].<ref name=":1" /> Her father worked for [[All India Radio]], India's national broadcaster.<ref name=":2">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Kalia taught at the [[SNDT Women's University]] in Mumbai, and also at Women's Service House Degree College in Allahabad, and retired from teaching in 2001.<ref name=":3">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Kalia's husband, Ravindra Kalia, was also a popular Hindi author.<ref name=":1" /> Following her retirement, Kalia headed the Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad, a literarary organization based in Kolkata, that publishes translations of works of literature to and from Hindi.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

== Writing ==
Kalia won the Vyas Samman, one of India's richest literary awards, for her novel ''Dukkham Sukkham'' in 2017.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The award was presented by Mridula Sinha, the governor of Goa, who described the novel as having "captured the essence of Indian culture.<ref name=":1" /> Kalia's previous novel, ''Beghar'' (''Homeless'') was very commercially successful, running to five editions. She has written several novels and collections of short stories, four collections of poetry, as well as two collections of plays.<ref></ref> She is currently writing a biography of her husband, as well as a book about the history of Allahabad.<ref name=":2" /> Her writing engages with the lived experiences of women, often in middle-class families in India.<ref name=":2" /><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> She has also won several other literary awards, including the Yashpal Katha Samman, Sahitya Bhushan Samman, Ram Manohar Lohiya Samman, Mahadevi Varma Samman, and the Sita Award.<ref name=":3" /><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

== Bibliography ==
Poetry collections<ref name=":0" />:

* खाँटी घरेलू औरत (''An Entrenched Domesticated Woman'')
* कितने प्रश्न करूँ (''How Many Questions Do I Ask?)''
* ''Tribute to Papa and other poems''
* ''Poems 78''

Novels<ref name=":0" />:

* बेघर (''Homeless'')
* नरक दर नरक (''Hell to Hell'')
* प्रेम कहानी (''A Love Story'')
* लड़कियाँ (''Girls'')
* एक पत्नी के नोट्स (''A Wife's Notes'')
* दौड़ (''Distance'')
* अँधेरे का ताला (''The Lock of Darkness)''
* दुक्खम्‌ - सुक्खम् (''Sadness and Happiness'')

Other works<ref name=":0" />:

* Plays: यहाँ रहना मना है (''It is Forbidden to Live Here''), आप न बदलेंगे (''You Won't Change'')
* Memoir: कितने शहरों में कितनी बार (''How Many Times in How Many Cities'')
* A translation of Somerset Maugham's ''Of Human Bondage'' into Hindi

== References ==



[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Writers from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Indian women writers]]
[[Category:1940 births]]
[[Category:Indian women academics]]
[[Category:Hindi-language writers]]
[[Category:Hindi-language poets]]
[[Category:Indian dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Indian poets]]

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