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 Amar Goswami  (अमर गोस्वामी; 28 November 1945 – 26 June 2012) was a Sr. journalist and one of the prominent fiction writers of Hindi literature. His work includes Satires, Short Stories, Poem, Novels, Novelette and translations from Bengali to Hindi. He was associated with Kathantar, Vikalp, Aagamikal, Sampa, Manorama, Ganga, Sunday Observer (hindi), Bharti Features, Uxhur Bharat, Bharatiya Gyanpith, Rey Madhav Publications. His stories have been aired on AIR and short films have been made on his stories.

Biography
Early Life

He was born in Multan (undivided India) in one of the affluent Brahmin families. At the age of 2, his family moved from Multan (now in Pakistan) to Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. He did his graduation, MA (Hindi), Shahitya Shiromani (Gold Medilist) and Shahitya Ratna from Allahabad University.

Early Influence

He used to live in his ancestral house in Mirzapur, and he found a Pandora’s Box of Hindi literature in the collection of “Saraswati” editions. As a child he was influenced by the literally articles published in the “Saraswati” magazine, and started writing in the very early age. He was one of the regular members of the school debate team and won several debate and writing competitions. In his adolescent, he started writing poems and started reciting poems in literally group and meeting conducted by Rotary Club, Mirzapur. He has also written a book on history of Mirzapur.

Allahabad and inclination towards prose

He moved to Allahabad to study Commerce in Allahabad University. Allahabad at that time used to be considered as the literally capital of India. He got associated with stalwarts of hindi literature like Sumitranandan Pant, Shailesh Matiyani, Naresh Mehta, Mahadevi Verma, Ilaychand Joshi and many more. He became one of the regular features of literally meetings (Sahitic Ghosthi). During that time he wrote many stories, which were broadcasted on AIR and published in hindi dailies like Aaj, Dainik Bhaskar, and various other magazines. He also published a literally magazine “Kathantar” and associated with Vikalp (a magazine of Late Shri. Shailesh Matiyani), Aagamikaal (a magazine of Late Shri Naresh Mehta) and Manorama (Mitra Prakashan) and Sampa (Children Magazine)

After coming to Delhi, his first collection of short stories “Himayati” was published in 1986, since then more than 25 books have been published and translated more than 70 books from Bengali to Hindi.

Style of Writing
He is the master of writing satire and brings light to some of the common events happening around us. And his writing focuses only towards the common man’s problems like super fast life of metropolitans, human relation, corruption, social discrimination, poverty and government policies and he also focused on different aspect of nature of the human being (preachers don’t follow what they preach). He was able to connect people with his writing.

Is Daur Mein Hamsafar
This is the only published of the two novels that have been written by him. This novel casts multiple characters and has beautifully developed all the characters. The most important and powerful character of this novel is Ananya who epitomizes the empowerment of women in the shining India.

Literary works
Himayati

Mahuye Ka Ped

Dhartiputra

Udhas Raghodas

Aranya Mein Hum

Buzo Bahadur

Bhool Bulayya

Apni Apni Duniya

Kal Ka Bharosa

Mahabali

Ikkis Kahaniya

Is Daur Mein Humsafar

Children Book
Tunni Machli

Tinku Ki Chattri

Jiddi Patang

Sher Singh Ka Chasma

Sabash Munnu

Cloud Ice-Cream

Drip-Drop-Drip