`Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh is a prominent Indian

novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All", carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country.
An important Indo-Anglian novelist, Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humor, and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as editor of several well-known literary and news magazines, as well as two major broadsheet newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s.

Khushwant Singh at a reading in New Delhi

As a public figure, Singh has been accused of favoring the ruling Congress party, especially during the reign of Indira Gandhi. He is better viewed as an establishment liberal. Singh's faith in the Indian political system has been shaken by events such as anti-Sikh riots that followed Indira Gandhi's assassination, in which major Congress politicians are alleged to be involved. But he has remained resolutely positive on the promise of Indian democracy and worked via Citizen's Justice Committee floated by H. S. Phoolka who is a senior advocate of Delhi High Court.

Khushal Singh Born 2 February 1915 (age 96) Hadali,Current District Khushab, British India

Nationality Indian

Alma mater

St. Stephen's College, Delhi King's College London

Personal life
He has a son, named Rahul Singh, and a daughter. He is the paternal uncle of actress Amrita Singh. He stays in "Sujan Singh Park", near Khan Market New Delhi, Delhi's first apartment complex, built by his father in 1945, and named after his grandfather.
Occupation

Journalist, Writer, Historian

Religion

Agnostic

Honors and awards

Padma Bhushan, Government of India (1974)[He returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the Union government's siege of the Golder Temple, Amritsar) Honest Man of the Year, Sulabh International (2000) Punjab Rattan Award, The Government of Punjab (2006) Padma Vibhushan, Government of India (2007) Sahitya academy fellowship award by Sahitya academy of India (2010)

Books

The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories, 1950 The History of Sikhs, 1953 Train to Pakistan, 1956 The Voice of God and Other Stories, 1957 I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale, 1959 The Sikhs Today, 1959 The Fall of the Kingdom of the Punjab, 1962 A History of the Sikhs, 1963 Ranjit Singh: The Maharajah of the Punjab, 1963 Ghadar 1915: India's first armed revolution, 1966 A History of the Sikhs, 1966 (2nd edition) A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories, 1967 Black Jasmine, 1971 Tragedy of Punjab, 1984 Delhi: A Novel, 1990 Sex, Scotch and Scholarship: Selected Writings, 1992 Not a Nice Man to Know: The Best of Khushwant Singh, 1993 We Indians, 1993 Women and Men in My Life, 1995 Uncertain Liaisons; Sex, Strife and Togetherness in Urban India, 1995 Declaring Love in Four Languages, by Khushwant Singh and Sharda Kaushik, 1997 The Company of Women, 1999 Truth, Love and a Little Malice (an autobiography), 2002 With Malice towards One and All The End of India, 2003 Burial at the Sea, 2004 Paradise and Other Stories, 2004 A History of the Sikhs: 1469-1838, 2004 Death at My Doorstep, 2005 A History of the Sikhs: 1839-2004, 2005 The Illustrated History of the Sikhs, 2006 Why I Supported the Emergency: Essays and Profiles, 2009 The Sunset Club, 2010

Short stories

The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories. London, Saturn Press, 1950. The Voice of God and Other Stories. Bombay, Jaico, 1957. A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories. New Delhi, Hind, 1967. Black Jasmine. Bombay, Jaico, 1971 The Collected Stories. N.p., Ravi Dayal, 1989. The Portrait of a Lady

William Saroyan

was an Armenian American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno. As a writer Saroyan made his breakthrough in Story magazine with The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), the title taken from the nineteenth a Depression-ridden society:century song of the same title. The protagonist young, starving writer who tries to survive in a is

Personal life
Saroyan has a correspondence with writer Sanora Babb that began in 1932 and ended in 1941, that grew into an unrequited love affair on Saroyan's
Born

William Saroyan, 1940

31 August 1908 Fresno, California, USA

Through the air on the flying trapeze, his mind hummed. Amusing it was, astoundingly funny. A trapeze to God, or to nothing, a flying trapeze to some sort of eternity; he prayed objectively for strength to make the flight with grace.

Died

18 May 1981 (aged 72) Fresno, California, USA

Pen name

Sirak Garoyan

Occupation

Novelist, playwright, short story writer

part. In 1943, Saroyan married actress Carol Marcus (19242003; also known as Carol Grace), with whom he had two children, Aram, who became an 1934-1980 Period author and published a book about his father, and Lucy, who became an actress. By the late 1940s, Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1940) Saroyan's drinking and gambling took a toll on his Notable marriage, and in 1949, upon returning from an Academy Award for Best Writing, award(s) extended European trip, he filed for divorce. They Original Story (1943) were remarried briefly in 1951 and divorced again in 1952 with Marcus later claiming in her autobiography, Among the Porcupines: A Memoir, that Saroyan was abusive. Carol subsequently married actor Walter Matthau.Saroyan died in Fresno, of prostate cancer at age 72. Half of his ashes were buried in
Nationality Armenian American

Short stories

The Summer Of The Beautiful White Horse "Gaston" (date unknown) "The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter" "Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing At All in the World" (1942)

Books

Plays

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) Inhale and Exhale (1936) Three Times Three (1936) Little Children (1937) The Trouble With Tigers (1938) Love Here Is My Hat (1938) My Name Is Aram (1940) The Human Comedy (1943) The Adventures of Wesley Jackson (1946) Rock Wagram (1951) Tracy's Tiger (1952) The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills (1952) The Laughing Matter (1953) Love (1955) Mama I Love You (1956) Papa You're Crazy (1957) Here Comes, There Goes, You Know Who (1962) Gaston (1962) One Day in the Afternoon of the World (1964) The Man With The Heart in the Highlands and other stories (1968) Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon (1970) Places Where I've Done Time 1972 (original printing possibly 1957) Chance Meetings (1978) Obituaries (1979) Births (1983) My name is Saroyan (1983) Madness in the Family (1988) Boys and Girls Together (1995)

The Time of Your Life (1939) - winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama My Heart's in the Highlands (1939) Elmer and Lily (1939) Three plays (1940):

My hearts in the Highlands The time of your life Loves old sweet song

The Agony of Little Nations (1940) Hello Out There (1941) Across the Board on Tomorrow Morning (1941) The Beautiful People (1941) Bad Men in the West (1942) Talking to You (1942) Coming Through the Rye (1942) Don't Go Away Mad (1947) Jim Dandy (1947) The Slaughter of the Innocents (1952) The Oyster And The Pearl (Television Play) (1953) The Stolen Secret (1954) The Cave Dwellers (1958) Sam, The Highest Jumper Of Them All, or the London Comedy (1960) Hanging around the Wabash (1961) The Dogs, or the Paris Comedy (1969) Armenian (1971) Assassinations (1974) Tales from the Vienna Streets (1980) An Armenian Trilogy (1986) The Parsley Garden (1992)

Edward James Hughes

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commonly known as Ted Hughes, was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureatefrom 1984 until his death. Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath, [2] from 1956 until her death by suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. His part in the relationship became controversial to some feminists and (particularly) American admirers of Plath. His last poetic work, Birthday (1998), explored their complex relationship. These poems make reference to Plath's suicide, but none of them addresses directly the circumstances of her death. A poem discovered in October 2010, Last letter, describes what happened during the three days leading up to Plath's suicide.

TED HUGHES
Born
17 August 1930 Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, England

Ted Hughes Award

In 2009 the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry was established with the permission of Carol Hughes. The Poetry Society notes "the award is named in honour of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, and one of the greatest twentieth century poets for [49] both children and adults. Members of the Poetry Society and Poetry Book Society recommend a living UK poet who has completed the newest and most innovative work that year, "highlighting outstanding contributions made by poets to our cultural life." The 5,000 prize funded from the annual honorarium that Poet Laureate Carol Ann [50] Duffy receives as Laureate from The Queen. Alice Oswald was the inaugural winner in 2010 for her collection Weeds and Wildflowers (etchings by Jessica Greenman). In 2011 judges Gillian Clarke, Stephen Raw and Jeanette Winterson awarded the award to Kaite OReilly for her site specific retelling of Aeschylus play, The Persians (first produced in 472 BCE). Three other poets were shortlisted. Christopher Reid worked with director Niall MacCormickto adapt his narrative poem The Song of Lunch into a 50-minute BBC2 film. Died

28 October 1998 (age 68) London, England

Occupation

Poet

Nationality

English

Spouse(s)

Sylvia Plath (m. 19561963) Carol Orchard (m. 19701998)

Partner(s)

Assia Wevill (19621969)

Children

Frieda Hughes Nicholas Hughes (deceased) Alexandra (deceased)

Poetry collections
1957 The Hawk in the Rain 1960 Lupercal 1967 Wodwo 1970 Crow: From the Life and the Songs of the Crow 1972 Selected Poems 1957-1967 1975 Cave Birds 1977 Gaudete 1979 Remains of Elmet' (with photographs by Fay Godwin) 1979 Moortown 1983 River 1986 Flowers and Insects 1989 Wolf watching 1992 Rain-charm for the Duchy 1994 New Selected Poems 1957-1994 1997 Tales from Ovid 1998 Birthday Letters winner of the 1998 Forward Poetry Prize for best collection, the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize, and the 1999 British Book of the Year award. 2003 Collected Poems

Plays
The House of Aries (radio play), broadcast, 1960. The Calm produced in Boston, MA, 1961. A Houseful of Women (radio play), broadcast, 1961. The Wound (radio play; also see below), broadcast, 1962 Difficulties of a Bridegroom (radio play), broadcast, 1963. Epithalamium produced in London, 1963. Dogs (radio play), broadcast, 1964. The House of Donkeys (radio play), broadcast, 1965. The Head of Gold (radio play), broadcast, 1967. The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays (juvenile)

Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot was a playwright, literary critic, and
arguably the most important English-language [3] poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalized as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. The poem that made his name, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockstarted in 1910 and published in Chicago in 1915is regarded as a masterpiece of the modernist movement. He followed this with what have become some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four [4] Quartets (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

T. S. Eliot in 1923
Born
Thomas Stearns Eliot 26 September 1888 St. Louis, Missouri

Died

4 January 1965 (aged 76) London, England

Awards
Occupation Order of Merit (awarded by King George VI (United Kingdom), 1948) Nobel Prize for Literature "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to [5] present-day poetry" (Stockholm, 1948) Officier de la Legion d'Honneur (1951) Hanseatic Goethe Prize (Hamburg, 1955) Dante Medal (Florence, 1959) Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, (1960) Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964) 13 honorary doctorates (including Oxford, Cambridge, the Sorbonne, and Harvard) Tony Award in 1950 for Best Play: The Broadway production of The Cocktail Party. Two posthumous Tony Awards (1983) for his poems used in the musical Cats Celebrated on commemorative postage stamps Period
19051965 Poet, dramatist, literary critic

Citizenship

American by birth; British from 1927

Education

A.B. in philosophy

Alma mater

Harvard University Merton College, Oxford

Notable award(s)

Nobel Prize for Literature(1948), Order of Merit (1948)

Poetry

Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Portrait of a Lady (poem) Aunt Helen

Poems (1920)

Gerontion Sweeney Among the Nightingales "The Hippopotamus" "Whispers of Immortality" "Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service" "A Cooking Egg"

The Waste Land (1922) The Hollow Men (1925) Ariel Poems (19271954)

The Journey of the Magi (1927)

Ash Wednesday (1930) Coriolan (1931) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs and Billy M'Caw: The Remarkable Parrot (1939) in The Queen's Book of the Red Cross

Four Quartets (1945)

Plays

Sweeney Agonists (published in 1926, first performed in 1934) The Rock (1934) Murder in the Cathedral (1935) The Family Reunion (1939) The Cocktail Party (1949)

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SUBMITTED BY SAURABH VERMA XI-A ROLL NO-23 KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA NO.1 A.F.S CHAKERI KANPUR