G. N. Devy
Auteur de The Crisis Within: On Knowledge and Education in India
A propos de l'auteur
G. N. Devy is Honorary Professor, Centre for Multidisciplinary Development Research, Dharwad, India, and Chairman, People's Linguistic Survey of India. An award-winning writer and cultural activist, he is known for his 50-volume language survey. He is Founder Director of the Adivasi Academy at afficher plus Tejgadh in Gujarat, India, and was formerly Professor of English at M. S. University of Baroda. He is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Linguapax Prize, Prince Claus Award and Padma Shri. With several books in English, Marathi and Gujarati, he has co-edited (with Geoffrey V. Davis and K. K. Chakravarty) Narrating Nomadism: Tales of Recovery and Resistance (2012); Knowing Differently: The Challenge of the Indigenous (2013); Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts (2014); and The Language Loss of the Indigenous (2016), published by Routledge. afficher moins
Œuvres de G. N. Devy
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1950
- Études
- Shivaji University, Kolhapur
University of Leeds - Prix et distinctions
- SAARC Writers’ Foundation Award
Prince Claus Award (2003)
Membres
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 23
- Membres
- 84
- Popularité
- #216,911
- ISBN
- 49