Saumitra Saxena
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Saumitra Saxena also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...
: , born 1976) is a United States based poet of Indian origin. He is one of the widely read poets of Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
language of present generation. His first collection of poems in Hindi titled "Mitra"
meaning "a friend" was critically acclaimed for which he received the Bharatiya Jnanpith Navlekhan Award in 2008. The book "Mitra" was included in the Library of Congress
Library of Congress
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in 2010 as an important contemporary piece of South Asian literature and is widely distributed across many major libraries of the world. Currently, he lives in Dayton, Ohio with his wife and a son.