Pratāpanārāyaṇa Ṭaṇḍana (born c. 1935, Lucknow), anglicized as Pratap Narayan Tandon, is an Indian Hindi social novelist and literary critic nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Biography.
Tandon was born on 1935 in the city of Lucknow, British Raj.
Career.
Between 1960 and 1970, he wrote a number of novels, which helped to establish a completely new genre of readers. He used simple, conversational Hindi when writing, and his writing style was completely original. He is regarded as an accomplished writer of novels centered on current events.
His most successful novel was "Andhi Duniyan", published in 1970. It follows the story of Riti, a young girl who finds herself instantly encircled by darkness, and the entire world watches as the drama of her life plays out. When she lost her sight, her good looks were totally overshadowed, and she has to fight social suffocations despite her constant pains to rebel.
Recognition.
In 1973 and 1974, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Brij Behari Nayak, professor and director of University of Lucknow, and Kesari Narayan Shukla, professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Languages of the same university, respectively.