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Shiv K. Kumar

Novelist, short-story writer, poet, playwright, translator and critic, Shiv K. Kumar was born in Lahore. He received his doctorate in English Literature from Cambridge University. Kumar has published four novels, seven collections of poems, a collection of short-stories, a play, a translation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and several scholarly works. In 1978 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London, for his literary achievement. He was Professor of English at Osmania University and Central University of Hyderabad, as well as Visiting Professor at several American and British universities. He received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988 for his collection of poems Trapfalls in the Sky, and the Padma Bhushan in 2001.