Death
He died on 15 November 2017 at the age of 90.Works
Poetry
* ''Chakravyūh'' (Circular Siege), 1956. Radhakrishan, Delhi (first published byEpic poems
* ''Ātmajayī'' (Self-Conqueror), based on the Upanishadic episode of Nachikétā in Kathopnishad, 1965. Bharatiya Jnanpith, Delhi. * ''Vājashravā Ké Bahāné'' (On Vajashrava's Pretext), independent poems linked to Ātmajayī's context, 2008. Bharatiya Jnanpith.Fiction
* Ākāron Ké Ās-Pās (Near-about Shapes), a collection of short stories, 1973. Radhakrishan Prakashan, Delhi.Criticism
* ''Āj Aur Āj Sé Pahlé'' (Today and Before Today), 1998. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi. * ''Méré Sākshātkār'' (My Interviews), interviews given by Kunwar Narain, ed. Vinod Bhardwaj, 1999. Kitabghar Prakashan, Delhi. * ''Sāhitya Ké Kuchh Antar-Vishayak Sandarbh'' (Some Interdisciplinary Contexts of Literature), XIV Samvatsar Lecture, 2003. Sahitya Akademi.Translations
* ''Selected poems of and essay on Constantine Cavafy'', 'Tanāv', 1986 and Jorge-Luis Borges, 'Tanāv', 1987. * ''Selected poems of Stéphane Mallarmé'', Tadeusz Różewicz, Derek Walcott, Zbigniew Herbert, Anna Świrszczyńska, etc.Compilations
* ''Kunwar Nārāin: Sansār-I'' (World: Select writings of Kunwar Narain), ed. Yatindra Mishra, 2002. Vani Prakashan, Delhi. *''Kunwar Nārāin: Upasthiti-II'' (Presence: Select articles on Kunwar Narain and his writings), ed. Y Mishra, 2002. Vani Prakashan. *''Kunwar Nārāin: Chunī Huī Kavitāyein'' (Selected Poems), ed. Suresh Salil, 2007. Medha Books, Delhi. *''Kunwar Nārāin: Pratinidhī Kavitāyein'' (Representative Poems), ed. Purshottam Agarwal, 2008. Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi.Awards and recognition
*Foreign translations
*''Modern Hindi Poetry: An Anthology'', ed. Vidya N. Misra, 1965, Indiana Univ. Press, Bloomington & London. (English translation by Leonard Nathan & H M Guy) *''Tokyo University Journal'', No. 7, December 1972, Hindi Dept., Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies, Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo (Japanese translation by Toshio Tanaka) *''Der Ochsenkarren, Hindilyrik der siebziger und achtziger Jahre'', Zusammengestellt von Vishnu Khare & Lothar Lutze, Verlag Wolf Mersch, 1983 (German transl.) *''Kunvar Narayan, Naciketa, A cura di Mariola Offredi'', Plural Edizioni, Napoli. Collezione di Poesia I Cristalli, 1989, (Italian translation of Atmajayee) *''The Golden Waist Chain: Modern Hindi Short Stories'', ed. Sara Rai, 1990, Penguin. (English translation by Sara Rai) *''TriQuarterly 77'', Winter 1989/90, ed. Reginald Gibbons, 1990, Northwestern University, US (English translation by Vinay Dharwadker) *''Periplus: Poetry in Translation'', eds. Daniel Weissbort & Arvind K. Mehrotra, 1993, Oxford Univ. Press. (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet) *''The Penguin New Writing in India'', eds. Aditya Behl & David Nicholls, 1994, Penguin India, First published by Chicago Review (Vol. 38, Nos1 & 2), 1992 *''Survival'', eds. Daniel Weissbort & Girdhar Rathi. Sahitya Akademi, India, 1994 (English translations by Daniel Weissbort & the poet) *''The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry'', eds. Vinay Dharwadker & A.K. Ramanujan, 1994, Oxford University Press (English translations) *''Yatra 2: Writings from The Indian Subcontinent'', General Ed.: Alok Bhalla, Eds. Nirmal Verma & U R Ananthamurthy, 1994, Indus (English trans., Alok Bhalla) *''Living Literature: A Trilingual Documentation of Indo-German Literary Exchange'', eds. Barbara Lotz and Vishnu Khare (German translations) *''Gestures: Poetry from SAARC Countries'', Edited by K. Satchidanandan, 1996 (Reprint 2001), Sahitya Akademi, India (English) *''An Anthology of Modern Hindi Poetry'', ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, 1998, Rupa & Co., India (English translations) *''Dilli Mein Kavita'', ed. Kailash Vajpeyi, translated into Russian by Varyam Singh, 1999, Sahitya Kala Parishad, Delhi (Russian translations) *''Poeti Hindi: Antologia del Novecento, A cura di Mariola Offredi'', Casta Diva, Roma. 2000. Poesia, Collana diretta da Enrico D’Angelo (Italian translations) *''Kunvar Narayan, Nessuno è altro, A cura di Roberta Sequi'', Casta Diva, Roma. 2001. (Italian translation of Koee Doosra Nahin) *''Beyond Borders: An Anthology of SAARC Poetry'', eds.References
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