Mridula Garg

About Mridula Garg

Mridula Garg has been writing in Hindi and English for fifty years. She has written eight novels, eighty-six short stories, one travel memoir, four books of essays. Her latest work, published in 2023, is a memoir about inimitable women, called Ve Nayab Aurtein, Vani Prakashan, 2023. The women are from all walks of life and many countries whom she has known well. She has also published one novel written in English and two translations of her Hindi novels in English. Her novels Chittacobra, Kathgulab, Anitya and many of her stories have been translated into German, French, Czech, Russian, English and Japanese. She won the Sahitya Academy Award, Vyas Samman and Times of India Lifetime Achievement Award among others. She received the Hellman Hammett Grant from the Human Rights Watch, New York in 2001, after publication of the English translation of Chittacobra, to honour her bravery following the persecution she experienced for writing it in Hindi in 1979. Her work, written in Hindi and translated by her into English, has appeared in Out of Print.