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Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
Indian writer (1917–1964)
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (13 November 1917 – 11 September 1964)[1] was one of the most prominent Hindi poets, essayists, literary and political critics, and fiction writers of the 20th century.[2]
Muktibodh is widely regarded as a pioneer of modern Hindi poetry in India along with Surya Kant Tripathi 'Nirala'.[3][4] He was a leading figure in the PrayogvaadExperimentalism movement of Hindi literature and of the Nayi Kahani and Nayi KavitaModernism of the 1950s.[5] He is also considered a central figure in the rise of 'New Criticism' in Indian literature.
He was an assistant-editor of several noted Hindi journals including Naya Khun and Vasudha.[2]
Muktibodh was born in Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh. He started out as was one of the seven poets included in the first volume of Tar Saptak, a series of anthologies (1943), which marked a transition in Hindi literat