| Name: |
Gopi Chand Narang |
| Previous Position held:
|
President, Sahitya Akademi (2003-2007) (National Academy of Letters) Rabindra Bhawan, Feroze Shah Road New Delhi 110001 |
| Date & Place of Birth: | February 11, 1931 Dukki, India |
| Permanent Address: | D-252, Sarvodaya Enclave New Delhi-110017 (India) Phone : (R) 26511460 (R) 26568956 email : < narang_5@yahoo.co.in > |
| ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS, AWARDS,
HONOURS & ACHIEVEMENTS |
|
| 1. | Padma Bhushan awarded by the President of India (2004) |
| 2. | Padma Shri awarded by the President of India (1991) |
| 3. | Iqbal Centenary Gold Medal awarded by the President of Pakistan (1977) |
| 4. | D.Litt. Degree (Honoris Causa) by the Central University of Hyderabad (2007) |
| 5. | Indira Gandhi Memorial Fellowship, Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts (2002-2004) |
| 6. | Mazzini Gold Medal by the Government of Italy (2005) |
| 7. | Sahir Ludhianvi Award by the Sahir Cultural Academy (2005) |
| 8. | Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for Residency at Bellagio Study Centre, Italy (1997) |
| 9. | Twice Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis , U.S.A. (1963-1965) & (1968-1970) |
| 10. | Acting Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia University (May-June 1981-1982) |
| 11. | Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway (1997) |
| 12. | Member Trust, National Book Trust, India (1997-2007) |
| 13. | Rajiv Gandhi Award for Excellence in Secularism, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (Kanpur Chapter) 1994. |
| 14. | Sahitya Akademi Award for work on literary theory and Indian poetics, 1995. |
| 15. | Ghalib Award for life time achievement, Ghalib Institute, 1985. |
| 16. | Urdu-Hindi Sahitya Committee Award, Lucknow, 1985. |
| 17. | Amir Khusrau Award (AKSA-Chicago) 1987. |
| 18. | Canadian Academy of Urdu Language and Literature Award, Toronto 1987. |
| 19. | Ghalib Prize for the best scholarly book, Urdu Masnawiyan, 1962. |
| 20. | Khwaja Ashkar Husain Award, Toronto, 2000.. |
| 21. | Mir Award by the Mir Academy, Lucknow, 1977. |
| 22. | National Award on Puranon ki Kahaniyangiven by the National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi, 1977. |
| 23. | Association of Asian Studies, Mid-Atlantic Region, U.S.A. Award for the promotion of Urdu Language and Literature and its education in U.S.A., 1982. |
| 24. | Bapu Reddy Jaatheeya Sahiti Puraskaram, 2003. |
| 25. | Zainabia Trust Award, 2003. |
| 26. | Delivered lectures on different aspects of Indian literature and culture at the Universities of Chicago, California-Berkeley, Columbia-New York, McGill-Montreal, Michigan-Ann Arbor, Washington, Misso, London, Toronto, Oslo, Prague and Moscow. |
| 27. | Author of more than 200 scholarly articles published in Indian and foreign journals of U.K., U.S.A., Norway and Czechoslovakia. |
| 28. | Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society, London, U.K. (1963-1972). |
| 29. | Member, Linguistic Panel & Linguistic Terminology Committee of the Taraqqi Urdu Board, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India (1973-1982). |
| 30. | Participated in the 27th International Orientalists Congress held at Michigan University as delegate of the Government of India, August 1967. |
| 31. | Recipient of Commonwealth Fellowshipfor research in U.K., 1963. |
| 32. | Recipient of Ford Foundation Grant for Linguistic Institute, Indiana University, 1964. |
| 33. | Prepared Anthology of Urdu Short Stories for UNESCO; being published by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. |
| 34. | Published Readings in Literary Urdu Prose from the University of Wisconsin Press; text being used at many Universities in U.K., U.S.A., Germany, Norway, Japan and Turkey as teaching material. |
| 35. | Services to Language and Literature acknowledged in the Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge, U.K. |
| 36. | Prepared a book on Indian Mythology for the National Book Trust of India, 1976. |
| 37. | Served as Expert Member and Visitor's Nominee on many University Selection Committees for Professors, Readers, and Lecturers, also served as Expert Member on University Grants Commission Special Committees. |
| 38. | Contributed a substantial section on Modern Urdu Literature in Hindi Sahitya ka Brihat Itihas, (Nagari Pracharni Sabha, (Vol.9, pp. 216-282), 1978. |
| 39. | Contributed papers and participated in many Indian and International Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops on language and literature. |
| 40. | Member, Executive Board, Sahitya Akademi, National Academy of Letters (1983-1992). |
| 41. | Member, Programme Advisory Committee, Delhi Television (three terms). |
| 42. | Visited Oslo in August 1981 at the invitation of the Government of Norway and addressed the Writers Union and various literary and cultural organisations. |
| 43. | Participated in the 10th World Congress of Sociology held in Mexico City in August 1982, and presented a paper on Urdu Orthography. |
| 44. | Visited U.S.A., Canada, and U.K. in 1982, 1986, 1992 & 2001 and gave lectures at the Universities of California, Arizona, Wisconsin, Chicago, Minnesota, Cornell, Philadelphia, Toronto and London. |
| 45. | Visited U.S.S.R. on the invitation of the Soviet Union to participate in the International Forum on Nuclear Disarmament and Peace in Moscow, and also visited Central Asia, and delivered lectures in Tashkent, Bukhara, and Samarkent, 1986. |
| 46. | Visted Saudi Arabia and participated in the Urdu Conference, Jeddah; also visited Riyadh, June 2008. |
| 47. | Member, Advisory Panel, National Book Trust of India, 1993-2003. |
| 48. | Member, Governing Body, Laxmi Bai College, Delhi University, 1992-1993. |
| 49. | Delegate at the Asian Literary Perspectives Conference, Washington D.C., April 1997. |
| 50. | Khalsa Tri-Centenary Award, April 2000. |
| 51. | Member, Language Advisory Committee, NCERT, 2001-2003. |
| 52. | Vice-Chairman, National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, 1998-04. |
| 53. | Vice-Chairman, Delhi Urdu Academy, 1996-1999. |
| 54. | Member, Advisory Board, T.V. Urdu Channel, Doordarshan, 2008 - |
| 55. | Member, Advisory Committee on Culture, Government of India, 2008 - |
| 56. | Member, Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE), Government of India, 2009 - |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1. | Ph.D., University of Delhi, 1958. |
| 2. | M.A. (Urdu), University of Delhi, 1954, First Class First. |
| 3. | Diploma in Linguistics, University of Delhi, 1961, First Division. |
| 4. | Post Doctoral Courses in Acoustic Phonetics and Transformational Grammar, Indiana University, 1964. |
| FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS | |
| 1. | Humanities Research Fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, to complete doctoral dissertation, 1954-57. |
| 2. | Commonwealth Fellowship awarded by the Government of U.K. for research work under the auspices of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London - declined in order to accept the University of Wisconsin's offer (1963). |
| 3. | Grant from Ford Foundation to attend the Summer Linguistic Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1964. |
| 4. | Grant from Michigan University to participate in the 27th International Orientalists Congress held in Ann Arbor, 1968. |
| 5. | National Fellow, University Grants Commission, 1985-1986. |
| 6. | Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship for Residency at Bellagio Study Centre, Italy, 1997. |
| TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS | |
| 1. | Lecturer, St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, 1957-58. |
| 2. | Lecturer, University of Delhi, 1959-1961. |
| 3. | Reader, Department of Urdu, University of Delhi, 1961-1974. |
| 4. | Visiting Professor, Department of Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1963-65. |
| 5. | Reinvited as Visiting Professor by the University of Wisconsin for a second term, 1968-70. |
| 6. | Visiting Professor, South Asia Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1969 (Summer Institute). |
| 7. | Professor and Head, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi (1974-1985). |
| 8. | Professor of Urdu, Delhi University, Delhi (1986- 1995). |
| 9. | Professor Emeritus, Delhi University, 2005. (Present Position) |
| PUBLICATIONS | |
| More than 64 books are published, twelve in English, seven in Hindi and forty five in Urdu. Some of the titles are mentioned below: | |
| Books in Urdu | |
| 1. | Hindustani Qisson se Makhuz Urdu Mansnawiyan, Delhi 1959 & 1961 (Awarded Ghalib Prize as the best research work of the year by the U.P. Urdu Academy). |
| 2. | Karbal Katha ka Lisaniyati Mutali’a, Delhi 1970 (co-author). (Awarded U.P. Urdu Academy Prize). |
| 3. | Imla Nama: Recommendations of the Urdu Script Reforms Committee of the Urdu Development Board, ed., Taraqqi Urdu Board, New Delhi 1974. |
| 4. | Puranon ki Kahaniyan, in the Dr. Zakir Husain Series of the National Book Trust of India, New Delhi 1976. |
| 5. | Wazahati Kitabiyat 1976, Taraqqi Urdu Board, New Delhi 1980. |
| 6. | Urdu Afsana, Riwayat aur Masail, ed., Educational Publishing House, Delhi 1981, second edition, Lahore 1986. |
| 7. | Iqbal ka Fan, ed., Educational Publishing House, Delhi 1983. |
| 8. | Anis Shanasi, ed., Educational Publishing House, Delhi 1981. |
| 9. | Safar Ashna, Educational Publishing House, Delhi 1982. |
| 10. | Usloobiyat-e-Mir, Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu Pakistan, Karachi 1985, second edition, Delhi 1985. |
| 11. | Naya Urdu Afsana, ed., Educational Publishing House, Delhi 1988. |
| 12. | Saniha-e-Karbala bataur She’ri Isti’ara, Educational Publishing House, Delhi 1986. |
| 13. | Intizar Husain aur unke Afsane, ed., Educational Book House, Aligarh 1986. |
| 14. | Amir Khusrau ka Hindavi Kalaam (with Berlin MS of Sprenger Collection) Amir Khusrau Society, Chicago 1987, second edition, Lahore 1991, third edition, Delhi 1992. |
| 15. | Urdu ki Nai Kitab, NCERT, Delhi 1989. |
| 16. | Adabi Tanqeed aur Usloobiyaat, New Delhi 1989. |
| 17. | Qaari Asaas Tanqeed, Aligarh 1992. |
| 18. | Saakhtiyaat, Pas-Saakhtiyaat aur Mashriqi She’riyaat, Delhi 1994. (Recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award, 1995). |
| 19. | Balwant Singh ke Behtarin Afsane, ed. with an introduction, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 1995. |
| 20. | Urdu Maba‘d-e-Jadidiyat par Mukalama, Urdu Academy, Delhi 1998. |
| 21. | Biswin Sadi mein Urdu Adab, ed., Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 2002. |
| 22. | Hindustani Qisson se Makhuz Urdu Mansnawiyan, NCPUL, New Delhi 2002. (Enlarged Edition) |
| 23. | Urdu Ghazal aur Hindustani Zehn-o-Tahzib, National Urdu Council, New Delhi 2002. |
| 24. | Hindustan ki Tehreek-e-Azadi aur Urdu Shairi, National Urdu Council, New Delhi 2004 |
| 25. | Taraqqi Pasandi, Jadidiat, Maba’d-e-Jadidiat, Ad-shot Publications, Mumbai 2004. |
| 26. | Jadidiat ke Baad : Educational Publishing House, Delhi 2005. |
| 27. | Itlaqi Tanqeed : Naya Tanazur, ed., Sahitya Akademi, Delhi 2003. |
| 28. | Anis-o-Dabir (Bi-centenary Seminar), Sahitya Akademi 2005. |
| 29. | Wali Dakni : Tasawwaf, Insaniyat aur Mohabbat ka Shair, (International Seminar), Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 2005. |
| 30. | Urdu ki Nai Bastiyan (International Seminar), Sahitya Akademi, 2005. |
| 31. | Urdu Zaban aur Lisaniyaat, Raza Library, Rampur 2006. |
| 32. | Sajjad Zaheer : Adabi Khidmat aur Taraqqi Pasand Tehreek, ed., Sahitya Akademi, Delhi 2007. |
| 33. | Firaq Gorakhpuri : Shair, Naqqad, Danishwar, ed., Sahitya Akademi, Delhi 2008. |
| 34. | Fiction Sheriat : Tashkeel-o-Tanqeed, Educational Publishing House, Delhi 2009. |
| 35. | Dekhna Taqreer ki Lazzat (Literary Interviews), selected & com. by Mushtaque Sadaf, New Delhi (in Press). |
| Books in English | |
| 1. | Karkhandari Dialect of Delhi Urdu,Delhi 1961. |
| 2. | Readings in Literary Urdu Prose: a graded reader, first edition, Wisconsin 1967, second edition also by the University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1968, third revised edition, National Urdu Council, New Delhi 2001. |
| 3. | Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry for Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi 1981. |
| 4. | Contribution of Writers to Indian Freedom Movement, Editor Urdu Section, Indian Writers Union, Palai (Kerala) 1985. |
| 5. | Anthology of Urdu Short Stories: prepared for UNESCO’s Collection of Representative Works: Indian Series. Accepted for publication by the Sahitya Akademi, (Indian National Academy of Letters), New Delhi. |
| 6. | Rajinder Singh Bedi: Selected Short Stories, edited with an introduction, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 1989. |
| 7. | Krishan Chander: Selected Short Stories, edited with an introduction, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 1990. |
| 8. | Balwant Singh: Selected Short Stories, edited with an introduction, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 1996. |
| 9. | Urdu Language and Literature: Critical Perspectives, New Delhi 1991. |
| 10. | Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature (6 volumes), Urdu Editor-cum-Adviser, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 1987-1994. |
| 11. | Masterpieces of Indian Literature, (in 3 volumes), Editor Urdu Section, National Book Trust of India, New Delhi 1997. |
| 12. | Let’s Learn Urdu, for National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, New Delhi 2000. |
| Books in Hindi | |
| 1. | Amir Khusrau Ka Hindavi Kavya, (Amir Khusrau’s Hindi Poetry), Delhi 1990. |
| 2. | Balwant Singh ki Shreshth Kahaniyan, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 1997. |
| 3. | Paathak Aadhaar Aalochana, (Reader Response Criticism), New Delhi 1997. |
| 4. | Samrachnavad, Uttar-Samrachnavad evam Prachya Kavyashastra (trs. by Devesh), Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 2000. (Besides Hindi, this book is also published in Tamil, Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, Bengali, Maithili, Gujarati, Kannada and Malayalam; translation in progress in Kashmiri, Telugu and Oriya). |
| 5. | Urdu Kaise Likhen, NCPUL, New Delhi 2001. |
| 6. | Urdu Par Khulta Dareecha, New Delhi 2005. |
| 7. | Beeswein Sadi mein Urdu Sahitya, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 2006. |
| Books on Gopi Chand Narang | |
| 1. | Ph.D. Thesis : Gopi Chand Narang : Life & Work by Dr. Hamid Ali Khan, Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, degree awarded 1992; published by Educational Publishing House, New Delhi 1995. |
| 2. | Dr. Manazir Aashiq Harqanavi published his book, Gopi Chand Narang aur Adabi Nazariya Saazi, Har Anand Publications, New Delhi 1995. |
| 3. | Gopi Chand Narang: Shakhsiyat aur Adabi Khidmaat ed. by Shahryaar & Abul Kalam Qasmi, Maktaba Jamia Ltd., New Delhi 1995. |
| 4. | Alfaz Aligarh, Special issue on Gopi Chand Narang, Aligarh 1987. |
| 5. | Armughan-e-Narang, ed., by Dr. Abdul Haq, Modern Publishing House, New Delhi 1998. |
| 6. | Deedawar Naqqad, comp. by Dr. Shahzad Anjum, Educational Publishing House, New Delhi 2002. |
| 7. | Narang Zaar, by Abdul Mannan Tarzi, Isteara Publications., New Delhi 2004. |
| 8. | Chahaar Soo, Rawalpindi, Special Number on Gopi Chand Narang ed. by Gulzar Javed, Rawalpindi 2004 |
| 9. | Insha, Kolkata, Special Number on Gopi Chand Narang, ed. by F.S. Ejaz, Kolkata 2005. |
| 10. | Sher-o-Hikmat Ghosha-e-Gopi Chand Narang, Hyderbad 2005. |
| 11. | Gopi Chand Narang aur Urdu Tanqeed, by Saifi Sironji, Sironj 2006. |
| 12. | Gopi Chand Narang : Zaban-o-Lisaniyat, Tarveej Special Number, by Khawar Naqeeb,Orissa 2007. |
| 13. | Gopi Chand Narang : Bainul Aqwami Urdu Shakhsiyat, Special Number of Alami Urdu Adab, ed. by Nand Kishore Vikram, New Delhi 2008. |
| 14. | M.Phil Dissertation on Gopi Chand Narang , Bahaud Din Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan 2004. |
| 15. | M.Phil Dissertation on Gopi Chand Narang , Delhi University, by Mohd. Hadi, 2007. |
| 16. | Jadeed Adabi Theory aur Gopi Chand Narang , Education Publishing House, New Delhi 2009. |
| 17. | Rang, Special Number on Gopi Chand Narang, ed. by Shan Bharti & Mushtaq Sadaf, Dhanbad, 2010. |