Abhimanyu Unnuth

Rashi Rohatgi (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania)

Ed. by Helen Rachel Cousins, Birmingham Newman University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 8.2.1: Francophone African Writing and Culture: Subsaharan.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Birmingham Newman University)

Dates

Born 9 Aug 1937
Died 4 Jun 2018
Activity 1970-2018

Places

Active in Mauritius

Cultural Identities

African French

Activities

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Novelist
Poet

Other

Essayist

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Unnuth's Works

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Abhimanyu Unnuth was a Mauritian poet, novelist, and essayist writing largely in Hindi. He is best known for his 1977 novel

Lal Pasina

[Blood-Red Sweat], part of a trilogy chronicling the rise in political consciousness of indentured labourers in pre-Independence Mauritius. In 2014, he was awarded an honorary fellowship by the Sahitya Akdemi, the Indian National Academy of Letters, for his eminence in the global Hindi literary sphere.

Unnuth chronicled his early years for the Mauritian newspaper L’Mauricien. In these reminiscences, he explained his interest in three major themes of his work: labour, Hinduism, and injustice. He wrote of his childhood work on the sugar plantations near his village of Triolet, in northern Mauritius, which instilled in him an anger that showed itself

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Citation: Rohatgi, Rashi. "Abhimanyu Unnuth". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 October 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13540, accessed 22 November 2024.]