Current Affairs Hindi writer, translator of Czech modern writers, Nirmal Verma passes away

27-10-2005 14:46 | Pavla Horáková

The Indian writer Nirmal Verma, who died in New Delhi on Tuesday at the age of 75, was considered one of India's best fiction writers but he was also a translator from Czech into Hindi. He introduced such writers as Karel Capek, Josef Skvorecky, Milan Kundera and Bohumil Hrabal to Indian readers.

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