Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t28: Yashpal
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Yashpal
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Yashpal (December 3, 1903 - December 26, 1976), Indian progressive writer.
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Yashpal was born in Firojapur, Punjab. After he graduated from middle school, he was admitted to National College in Lahore. In 1925, he graduated from college and was given the Bachelor of Arts
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degree. Afterwards, he worked at a school affiliated to National College. He took an active part in the patriotic movement against Britain when he was still a student and used to be the leader of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army, an anti-Britain patriotic organisation. In 1932, he was put in prison where he started his writing career. In 1940, he was arrested again and was released after the end of Second World War. He died of an illness in Lucknow on December 26, 1976.
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Yashpal created substantial works based on inheriting and promoting the critical realist tradition of Premchand and by integrating Marxism and his struggles for life, including 14 short or long novels like *Dada Comrade* (1941), *Deshadrohi* (1943) and *Jhutha Sach* (1960), about 200 short stories, four dramas, 10 collected works and three memoirs. In 1976, he was conferred the Padma Bhushan by the government of India and the Sahitya Akademi Award. His works have been translated into many languages including *Jhutha Sach* that was translated into Chinese by Jin Dinghan and Shen Jiazou, and published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House in 2000.