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Poet, novelist, story writer, memoirist, critic, commentator, and translator Anamika Ji is a well-known Hindi writer.
She had the inclination to write poems since childhood. Due to her hold on literature, she was given the title of student editor in the school magazine. With time, she started weaving poems as well as stories in different surroundings.
Women's issues always attracted Anamika Ji more, which remained very close to her heart. She has given a separate identity to women in her poems. She used to listen and understand the pain and feelings of the women living around her and then put them into words. She has also written many poems on Vatsalya.
Anamika ji has written untold feelings in her poems from the kitchen of the house to the women working in other fields.
Her books have been translated into Russian, Spanish, English, Japanese and Korean languages.
So far six poetry collections, seven novels, and three books of feminism criticism have been published by Anamika Ji.
She has been honored with the Rajbhasha Parishad Award, Sahitya Samman, Girja Kumar Mathur Samman, Parampara Samman, Bharatbhushan Agarwal, and Kedar Samman Awards for her special contribution to Hindi poetry.
In 2021, she was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for her poetry collection titled Digant in her basket.
Anamika ji is the third litterateur from Bihar after Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh Dinkar and Arun Kamal, who has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi literature.
For the first time in the history of Sahitya Akademi, a female poet was given the Sahitya Akademi Award for her poetic work.
Prior to this, five women writers have got this honor, but all of them were novels.
Prior to Anamika ji, Krishna Sobti in 1980 for her novel 'Zindaginama', Alka Saraogi in 2001 for her novel 'Kalikatha Via Bypass', Mridula Garg in 2013, and Nasira Sharma and Chitra Mudgal in 2016 and 2018. Was honored with the Academy Award.
In an interview given to Outlook magazine after receiving the award, Anamika ji said that Tokri Mein Diganta: Therigatha is an expression of women who belong to every strata, rural, backward castes, tribal, underprivileged area of the society. The whole world in his dialogue, in which its different layers open up.
This honor belongs to the feminine world, where women fight for their rights, but are never violent because they love those whom they encounter. Her struggle is for a society based on equality with the right vision. The subject of feminism has always been biased towards gentleness, and generosity.
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Birth and Early Life
Anamika ji was born on 17 August 1961 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Her father Dr. Shyamanandan Kishore, Rashtrakavi Dinkar, and Gopal Singh were well-known Hindi lyricists and poets of the Nepali era. She was honored with the Padma Shri award.
Her mother Asha Kishore was a professor and head of the department of Hindi. Anamika ji got the quality of poetry from her father and teaching from her mother. She learned the tricks of writing poems from her father, who was her first teacher.
Her brother is an IAS officer in the Maharashtra cadre.
Since childhood, she was very fond of reading books. She mostly read the books kept in her father's library. She was engrossed in her own imaginary world while reading those books. At a very young age, Anamika ji had read many famous poetesses.
She received her early education from the Anglo-Indian School in Bihar. Later she spent some time in Lucknow for her studies and after that, she moved to Delhi.
She did her MA in English Literature from Delhi University. After this, she obtained a D.Lett and Ph.D. degree from Delhi University itself. After completing her studies, Anamika ji remained in Delhi.
These days she is a professor of English at Satyavati College, University of Delhi.
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Literary Life
Anamika ji is a prominent Hindi language poetess, story writer, novelist, and critic in modern times. Even after being a teacher of English, she tried her best to enrich Hindi poetry for which she has left no stone unturned.
According to renowned critic Dr. Manager Pandey, "What is happening in Indian society and life and what is missing in the process of happening, its effective recognition and expression can be seen in Anamika ji's poetry."
On the other hand, according to Divik Ramesh, "Anamika ji has a good hold on imagery, her language to enliven visual bonds is also very powerful."
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Her Works
Kavita Sangrah (Poem Collection): Galat Patte Ki Chitthi, Bijakshar, Anushtup, Samay Ke Shehar Me, Khurduri Hatheliyan, Doob Dhan, Tokari main digantah: Therigatha.
Alochna (Criticism): Post-Eliot Poetry, stritwa ka manchitra, Tiriyacharitram, Uttarakand, Man manjhne ki zarurat, Pani jo patthar pita hai.
Shehargatha: Ek tho shehar, Ek go Ladki
Kahani Sangrah (Story Collection): Pratinayak
Upanyas: Avantarkatha, Par Kaun Sunega, Dus Dware Ka Pinjra, Tinka Tinke Paas.
Anuvad (Translations): Nagmandal (Girish Karnad), Rilke Ki Kavitayen, Afro-English Poems, Atlant Ke Aar Paar (Contemporary English Poetry), Kehti Hain Aurten (Feminist Poems of World Literature)
Women are not less than men in any field. She is waving her flag in every field where the history of male supremacy is very long. Women are also making their unique place in the literary world.
Heartfelt salutations to the great poetess, story writer, novelist, and critic. We wish you a healthy life and lots of fame.
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