Surendra Verma

Surendra Verma (born 7 September 1941) is a leading Hindi litterateur and playwright. He started out as a playwright, when his play ''Surya Ki Antim Kiran Se Surya Ki Pahli Kiran Tak'' (From sunset to sunrise, 1972) became quite well known; it has been translated into six Indian languages. He has had a long association with the National School of Drama.and has published about fifteen titles of short stories, satires, novels and plays.

He has won the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1993 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1996 vyas samman in 2016. Provided by Wikipedia