Usha priyamvada biography samples
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Usha Priyamvada
Usha Nilsson | |
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Usha Priyamvada (r) receiving Padmabhushan Moturi Satyanarayan Award from Pratibha Patil (2009) | |
Born | Usha Saksena 1930 (age 94–95) Kanpur, British India |
Pen name | Usha Priyamvada |
Language | Hindi |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | University of Allahabad |
Years active | 1961– |
Notable works | पचपन खंबे लाल दीवार (pachpan khambe laal deewar) |
Usha Priyamvada is the nom-de-plume of Usha Nilsson (née Usha Saksena; born 1930) is an Indian-born American emerita professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a novelist and short-story writer in Hindi and a translator from Hindi to English.
She was a winner of the Premchand Prize in 1976, and the Padmabhushan Moturi Satyanarayan Puraskar in 2009.
Life
Usha Saksena was born in Kanpur in a poor family which was active in India's independence struggle.
She was the youngest of three daughters raised by her mother, Priyamvada, w