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Ganga Prasad Vimal (also Gangaprasad Vimal) (June 3, 1939 [1] [2] [3] – December 23, 2019) was an Indian writer. He was a poet, [4] story writer, novelist [5] and translator. [6]
Ganga Prasad Vimal was born in 1939 in Uttarkashi, a Himalayan town in Uttarakhand state. In most of his writings, he has shown his concern towards saving the Himalayas and nearby regions and preserving trees. He was educated in Garhwal, Rishikesh, Allahabad, Yamunanagar and Punjab. In 1963 he started learning as a student in Summer School of Linguistics, Osmania University, Hyderabad. He secured top grades, creating a record in his Master's examination and was awarded University Fellowship of Punjab University. Talented and creative since his childhood, he had expertise in many literary and administrative fields. In 1965 he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy working on an inter-disciplinary subject. In the same year, he married Kamlesh Anamika on 5 February 1965. He has a son Ashish (born in 1969) and a daughter Kanupriya (1975).[ citation needed ]
After short stint as a freelance writer, he edited the weekly 'Deshsewa' besides actively engaging himself in student politics.
Dr. Vimal worked as Research Fellow for three years from 1961 to 1964 at Punjab University. He taught Hindi language and literature from 1962 to 1964 in the same university. He worked as Research Supervisor for many research students at Jakir Hussain College, Delhi University from 1964 to 1989. He was appointed Director of Central Hindi Directorate (Department of Education) in 1989 and he worked there up to 1997, and National Council for the Promotion of the Sindhi language 1989–1993 as Sindhi language promotional board at New Delhi and as Director, headquarters at Badodara 1993–1995.
Besides this he worked for many projects related to dictionaries and material related to knowledge of languages. He also worked in many government organizations and committees which decide, act and policies related to Indian languages.
He worked as Professor at Center of Indian Language, School of Language, literature and cultural studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from 1999 to 2004. From 1999 to 2000 he was the head of the department. [7] During this period he was Mphil and PhD guide of many students and associated with national and international institutions furthering research in languages.
Dr. Vimal was interested in creative writing since the beginning because of which he wrote many books. He wrote more than one dozen poetry collections and short story collections, novels and he translated five books in English. He translated around fifteen books from other languages including poems, stories and novels. He gave speeches in many countries related to his research work. He received many awards and honors in many countries for literature and culture mainly Poetry People Prize (1978); Diploma from Art University, Rome (1979); Gold Medal, National Museum of Literature, Sofia (1979); Dinkar Award from government of Bihar (1987); International Open Scottish Poetry Prize (1988), Indian Language Award (Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad) (1992) and Mahatma Gandhi samman, U.P. (2016). He read many research papers which included reading of his stories on BBC London and poetry reading on All India Radio. He was nominated for Sahitya Academy Award in 2019 for 'Main Bhi Jaoonga', a story collection published in 2016. [8]
Dr. Vimal also worked as Chief Literary Advisor for Argalaa, a quarterly magazine of jansamvedna and Hindi literature of the 21st century. [9]
Vimal's work was discussed as not quite meeting the mark set by Kamala Markandaya. [10]
Ganga Prasad Vimal died on December 23, 2019, in a car crash in Sri Lanka along with his daughter and grandson. He died in motor accident at Southern Highway in Sri Lanka.
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