Namvar Singh
1927
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2019
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: India, Dominion of India
languages spoken, written or signed: Hindi
educated at: Banaras Hindu University
occupation: writer
award received: Sahitya Akademi Award, Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar
Namvar Singh (Hindi: नामवर सिंह) (28 July 1926 – 19 February 2019) was an Indian literary critic, linguist, academician and theoretician. He received his doctorate degree from Banaras Hindu University where he also taught for some time. He served as a professor of Hindi literature in several other universities. He was the founder and first chairman of Jawaharlal Nehru University's Centre of Indian Languages and continued to remain as a professor emeritus after his retirement in 1992. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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