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- Sunita Jain (1940–2017) was an Indian scholar, novelist, short-story writer and poet of English and Hindi literature. She was a former professor and the Head of the department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She published over 60 books, in English and Hindi, besides translating many Jain writings into English. She is featured in the Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English and was a recipient of The Vreeland Award (1969) and the Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award (1970 and 1971). The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2004. In 2015 she was awarded the Vyas Samman by the K.K. Birla foundation for outstanding literary work in Hindi. In 2015 she was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Burdhwan, West Bengal. (en)
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- Brahmi Sundari Award (en)
- D.Litt. University of Burdhwan, 2015 (en)
- Delhi Hindi Academy Award (en)
- Mahadevi Varma Samman (en)
- Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award (en)
- Nirala Namit Award (en)
- Prabha Khetan Award (en)
- Sahityakar Samman (en)
- Sulochini Writer Award (en)
- The Vreeland Award (en)
- The Vyas Samman Award (en)
- UP Sahitya Bhushan Award (en)
- Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan Award (en)
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- Ambala district, Haryana, India (en)
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- Anu K. Mittal, Ravi K. Jain, Shashi K. Jain (en)
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- Poet, writer, novelist, scholar (en)
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- Sunita Jain (1940–2017) was an Indian scholar, novelist, short-story writer and poet of English and Hindi literature. She was a former professor and the Head of the department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She published over 60 books, in English and Hindi, besides translating many Jain writings into English. She is featured in the Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English and was a recipient of The Vreeland Award (1969) and the Marie Sandoz Prairie Schooner Fiction Award (1970 and 1971). The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2004. In 2015 she was awarded the Vyas Samman by the K.K. Birla foundation for outstanding literary work in Hindi. In 2015 she was awarded an honorary D.L (en)
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