Indira Dangi ( hi, इन्दिरा दाँगी) (born 13 February 1980) is a
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
novelist,
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
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short story writer
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...
She has published one novel, one theatrical play and two books of short stories.
Her works are widely acclaimed and acknowledged. She is a recipient of the
Yuva Puraskar
The Yuva Puraskar (Hindi: युवा पुरस्कार), also known as Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar, is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on young writers of outsta ...
and
Jnanpith Navlekhan Anushansa Award.
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1980 births
Living people
Indian women short story writers
Women writers from Madhya Pradesh
Hindi-language writers
Writers from Bhopal
Indian women dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Indian women writers
21st-century Indian writers
21st-century Indian novelists
Novelists from Madhya Pradesh
Dramatists and playwrights from Madhya Pradesh
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