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
Activity 1970-ongoing

Places

Active in Mauritius

Cultural Identities

African French

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Poet

Other

Essayist

Resources

Unnuth's Works

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Abhimanyu Unnuth (9 August 1937- ) is 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 has chronicled his early years for the Mauritian newspaper L’Mauricien. In these reminiscences, he explains his interest in three major themes of his work: labour, Hinduism, and injustice. He writes of his childhood work on the sugar plantations near his village of Triolet, in northern Mauritius, which instilled in him an anger

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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 16 April 2024.]

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