Jayant Parmer

Jayant Parmar (born 11 October 1954) is an Indian Urdu language poet known for raising Dalit issues in his poetry.[1] Parmar was born in a poor family. At a young age, he began to paint miniature paintings for a frame maker. Parmar realized that the frame maker had a separate pot for him because he was Dalit. This saddened Parmar and he quit.[2][3]

Parmar taught himself Urdu from a language learning guide at age 30 after he developed an appreciation for Urdu poetry while living in a Muslim-dominated area in the walled city area of Ahmedabad.[3] He has published a number of poetry collections: Aur in 1998, Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein in 2006, Manind in 2008, Antaral in 2010 and Giacometti ke sapne in 2016.[4] Parmar won the 2008 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein. His work has been translated into Kashmiri, Punjabi, Hindi, Marathi, Bangla, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya and Slovenian.[5][6] [7]

References

  1. ^ Shafey Kidwai (3 August 2008). "New Terrains". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 12 August 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  2. ^ "Jayant Parmar ke liye Urdu ka Sahitya Akademi Enam" (in Urdu). Voice of America. 14 April 2009. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
  3. ^ a b M. Shafey Kidwai (13 February 2009). "Making sense out of nonsense". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
  4. ^ "Jayant Parmer Chosen For Sahitya Academy Urdu Award". hindtoday.com. 24 December 2008. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  5. ^ "Sahitya Akademi awards for 7 novelists". The Hindu. 24 December 2008. Archived from the original on 25 January 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  6. ^ "The hell-pit that is caste". Firstpost. 6 August 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Poets dominate 2009 Sahitya Akademi Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Sahitya Akademi. 23 December 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2010.[permanent dead link‍]