NEW DELHI: Renowned Hindi author and literary critic Namvar Singh died at the age of 92 in Delhi late on Tuesday night.
Namwar Singh breathed his last at 11.51 pm at the AIIMS Trauma Centre. The cremation will take place on Wednesday afternoon at the Lodhi Road crematorium.
Namwar Singh was born on July 28, 1926 in Varanasi. After receiving a PhD degree from the Banaras Hindu University.
Namwar Singh started his teaching career at the same university and was a professor of Hindi literature in other universities.
Namwar Singh who was the first chairman of JNU’s Centre of Indian Languages retired from the university in 1992 but continued to remain as a ‘professor emeritus.’
Namwar received the Sahitya Akademi award for literary criticism in the year 1971 for ‘Kavita Ke Naye Pratiman.The author had been the Editor of magazines ‘Janyug’ and ‘Alochana’.
