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Premchand
  • Date of Birth:
    July 31, 1880
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Leo
  • Place of Birth:
    Lamahi, Varanasi, India
  • Place of Death:
    Varanasi, India
  • Date of Death:
    October 8, 1936
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    Indian

Family

Premchand
  • Father:
    Munshi Ajaib Lal
  • Mother:
    Anandi
  • Uncle:
    Mahabir
  • Spouse:
    Shivrani Devi

Career

Premchand

Trivia

Premchand
  • In Kafan (Shroud), a poor man collects money for the funeral rites of his dead wife, but spends it on food and drink.
  • Also did some translations.
  • Has also written some plays.
  • Has written about 300 short stories, several novels as well as many essays and letters.
  • Was a contemporary of some other literary giants of that era like Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla and Jaishankar Prasad.
  • Avoided the use of highly Sanskritized Hindi (as was the common practice among Hindi writers), but rather he used the dialect of the common people.
  • His novels describe the problems of the rural peasant classes.
  • Had to struggle for three years to pay it back.
  • Lived a life of financial struggle.
  • While at Allahabad, his first novella, Asrar e Ma'abid (The Secrets of the Sanctum Sanctorum) was serialized in the Urdu weekly Awaz-e-Khalq (first publication date 8 October 1903),[2] but it was in Kanpur where his writing career really took off with his association with the Urdu magazine Zamana where he published a regular column, The March of Time, focusing on national and international affairs.

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