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Podcast: Listen with Irfan
Episode: Nirmal Verma talks about his books of the century | A 1999 recording
Description: Talking about his favorite books of 20th century, Nirmal Verma mentioned Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann and Renu's Maila Aanchal.
Nirmal Verma (3 April 1929 – 25 October 2005) was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator. He is credited as being one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (New Story) literary movement of Hindi literature, wherein his first collection of stories, Parinde (Birds) is considered its first signature.
In his career spanning five decades and various forms of literature, writing story, travelogues and essays, he penned five novels, eight short-story collections and ni...