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Krishna Sobti

1925 - 2019

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Krishna Sobti (18 February 1925 – 25 January 2019) was an Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama and in 1996, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest award of the Akademi. In 2017, she received the Jnanpith Award for her contribution to Indian literature. Sobti is best known for her 1966 novel Mitro Marajani, an unapologetic portrayal of a married woman's sexuality. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Krishna Sobti is the 2,259th most popular writer (up from 2,679th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 44th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Pakistani Writer.

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Among writers, Krishna Sobti ranks 2,259 out of 7,302. Before her are Zbigniew Herbert, Ilse Aichinger, Dacia Maraini, Sebastian Haffner, Giovanni Botero, and Thor Vilhjálmsson. After her are Abraham Sutzkever, Francesc Eiximenis, Herman Bang, Ibn Taghribirdi, Etel Adnan, and Thomas Wyatt.

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Among people born in 1925, Krishna Sobti ranks 152. Before her are John Guillermin, Brian Aldiss, Louis Nirenberg, René Moawad, Ana María Matute, and Thor Vilhjálmsson. After her are Etel Adnan, Jørgen Ingmann, Giovanni Spadolini, Rabah Bitat, Serge Moscovici, and Pavel Belyayev. Among people deceased in 2019, Krishna Sobti ranks 140. Before her are Tommy Smith, Judith Kerr, Harold Prince, Peter Lindbergh, Fernando J. Corbató, and Altair Gomes de Figueiredo. After her are Václav Vorlíček, Princess Alix of Luxembourg, France-Albert René, Rip Torn, Jean Vanier, and Edith González.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Krishna Sobti ranks 50 out of 217. Before her are Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), Babita (1947), Naropa (1016), Malik Ghulam Muhammad (1895), Amrita Pritam (1919), and Khema (-550). After her are Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), Shujaat Hussain (1946), Yahya Khan (1914), Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (1951), Lokaksema (147), and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Krishna Sobti ranks 5. Before her are Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Vasubandhu (400), Khushal Khattak (1613), and Amrita Pritam (1919). After her are Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690), Rahman Baba (1632), Tariq Ali (1943), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Bulleh Shah (1680).

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