Naresh Mehta (15 February 1922 - 22 November 2000) was 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 ...

writer. There are over 50 published works in his name, ranging from poetry to plays. He received several literary awards, most notably the

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

in 1988 for his poetry collection '' Aranya '' and the

Jnanpith Award The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". Instituted in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian w ...

in 1992. Among the numerous schools of poetry which sprang up in the 1950s was ''Nakenwad'', a school deriving its nomenclature from the first letters of the names of its three pioneers - Nalin Vilochan Sharma, Kesari Kumar, and Naresh Mehta.

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Naresh Mehta at Kavita Koshपुस्तक परिचय (hindu)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mehta, Naresh Hindi-language poets Recipients of the Jnanpith Award 2000 deaths Hindi-language writers Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi 1922 births