Amar Goswami

Amar Goswami (28 November 1945 – 26 June 2012) was a senior journalist and one of the prominent fiction writers of Hindi literature. His work includes satires, short stories, poems, novels, novelettes and translations from Bengali to Hindi. He was associated with Kathantar, Vikalp, Aagamikal, Sampa, Manorama, Ganga, Sunday Observer (Hindi), Bharti Features, Uxhur Bharat, Bharatiya Jnanpith, Remadhav Publications. His stories have been aired on All India Radio and short films have been made on his stories

Biography

Early life

He was born in Multan (undivided India) in one of the affluent Brahmin families. At the age of 2, his family moved from Multan (now in Pakistan) to Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. He graduated with an MA (Hindi), Shahitya Shiromani (Gold Medallist) and Shahitya Ratna from Allahabad University.

Early influences

He used to live in his ancestral house in Mirzapur, and he found a Pandora’s Box of Hindi literature in the collection of “Saraswati” editions. As a child he was influenced by the literally articles published in the “Saraswati” magazine, and started writing in the very early age. He was one of the regular members of the school debate team and won several debate and writing competitions. In his adolescent, he started writing poems and started reciting poems in literally group and meeting conducted by Rotary Club, Mirzapur. He has also written a book on history of Mirzapur.

Style of Writing

He is the master of writing satire and brings light to some of the common events happening around us. And his writing focuses only towards the common man’s problems like super fast life of metropolitans, human relation, corruption, social discrimination, poverty and government policies and he also focused on different aspect of nature of the human being (preachers don’t follow what they preach). He was able to connect people with his writing.

Is Daur Mein Hamsafar

This is the only published of the two novels that have been written by him. This novel casts multiple characters and has beautifully developed all the characters. The most important and powerful character of this novel is Ananya who epitomizes the empowerment of women in the shining India.

Literary works

Himayati

Mahuye Ka Ped

Dhartiputra, ISBN 81-86480-02-01

Udhas Raghodas

Aranya Mein Hum

Buzo Bahadur

Bhool Bulayya

Apni Apni Duniya

Kal Ka Bharosa 

Mahabali

Ikkis Kahaniya

Is Daur Mein Humsafar

Sudama Ki Mukti (Book written for Adult Education Campaign by National Book Trust)

Children books

Tunni Machli

Tinku Ki Chattri

Jiddi Patang

Sher Singh Ka Chasma

Sabash Munnu

Cloud Ice-Cream

Drip-Drop-Drip