Life and Work
He was born on 1 January 1937 in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh (then Madhya Pradesh). His first collection of poems Lagbhag Jai Hind was published in 1971. Vah Aadmi Chala Gaya Naya Garam Coat Pehankar Vichar Ki Tarah was his second collection of poems, published in 1981 by Sambhavna Prakashan. Naukar Ki Kameez (The Servant's Shirt) was his first novel, brought out in 1979 by the same publisher. Per Par Kamra (Room on the Tree), a collection of short stories, was brought out in 1988, and another collection of poems in 1992, Sab Kuch Hona Bacha Rahega.in shuklaji literuture,you have to seen the epic of middle class. critics often told that if you have seen the chhattisgarh in a single novel then read khilega to dekhenge
Vinod Kumar Shukla was a guest littérateur at the Nirala Srijanpeeth in AGRA from 1994 to 1996 during which he wrote two novels Khilega To Dekhenge and the refreshing Deewar Mein Ek Khirkee Rahati Thi. The latter has been translated into English by Prof. Satti Khanna of Duke University as A Window Lived in a Wall(Publisher : Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2005).
He did his M.Sc. Agriculture form JNKVV Jabalpur whereafter joined as Lecturer in Agriculture College Raipur. He was inspired considerably by the poet Muktibodh who was then Lecturer in Hindi at Digvijay College Rajnandgaon where Dr Padumlal Punnalal Buxy was also working. Dr Baldeo Prasad Mishra was also at Rajnandgaon at t same period of time.
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