Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
'Acharya' Hazariprasad Dwivedi (हजारी प्रसाद द्विवेदी) (1907 – 1979) was a Hindi novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar. He penned numerous novels, collections of essays and a historical outline of Hindi literature.
Early life
Acharya was born in Dube ka Chhapra, a village in the Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh. He passed the "Shastri" examination at Sanskrit University and was later appointed as a
Hindi instructor at Santiniketan. He later became professor
and head of Hindi Departments at Banaras Hindu University and Panjab University,
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