New Delhi: Eminent Hindi litterateur and thinker Nirmal Verma, died here late on Tuesday night.
The 76-year-old Jnanpith award winner breathed his last at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at around 2300 IST and is survived by wife and a daughter.
He had been suffering from a lung disorder for quite some time and was admitted to AIIMS on Saturday.
According to his family the cremation will take place the Lodhi Road crematorium at 1500 IST.
Born in 1929 in Shimla, Verma spent over a decade in Europe and was a professor of Hindi in Czechoslovakia.
His first novel 'Vedana' was published in 1959. The story is set in Prague, then the capital of Czechoslovakia.
In the same year he was invited to translate Czech writings in Hindi and returned to India in 1968
He also won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his short stories Kavve Aur Kala Pani.
Verma became the chairman of the Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal in 1980 and his life and works were featured in a BBC show in 1988.
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