Background
Rajendra Yadav was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh on 28 August 1929 and died in New Delhi on 28 October 2013 night, around 12 o"clock in the mid night.
Rajendra Yadav was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh on 28 August 1929 and died in New Delhi on 28 October 2013 night, around 12 o"clock in the mid night.
He received his early education at Agra, and later also studied at Mawana, Meerut. He graduated in 1949, and later completed his Master of Arts in Hindi at Agra University in 1951.
He edited the literary magazine HANS, which was founded by Munshi Premchand in 1930 but ceased publication in 1953 – Yadav relaunched it on 31 July 1986, (Premchand"s Birthday). According to one of his friends, former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, BJP leader and noted author Doctor Ramesh Chandra Pokhriyal Nishank "He was not keeping well for long time, died in the mid of the night while being taken to the hospital." His first novel was Pret Bolte Hain (Ghosts Speak), published in 1951 and later retitled as Sara Akash (The Infinite Cosmos) in the 1960s. lieutenant was the first Hindi novel to try to shock orthodox Indian cultural traditions.
lieutenant was adapted into a movie of the same title, Sara Akash, by Basu Chatterjee in 1969 and which along with Mrinal Senator"s Bhuvan Shome, launched Parallel Cinema in Hindi.
The films was shot the Yadav"s ancestral home in Raja Ki Mandi, Agra. Ukhre Huey Log, ("The Rootless People) his next novel, depicts the trauma of a couple arising out of socio-economic condition which forced them to desert the conventional path – and, still they failed to acclimatise themselves to a corrupt and devilish world.
This novel envisages "living in" concept for the first time. He wrote two more novels,, and He also wrote several stories and translated into Hindi many works of Russian language writers like Turgenev, Chekhov, and Lermontov (A Hero of Our Times), as also Albert Camus (The Outsider).
He was awarded Yash Bharati Samman of year 2013 by Government of Uttar Pradesh.
Yadav died in New Delhi at approximately midnight on 28 October 2013. He was 84 years old died. Before his death, he had been admitted to hospital.
Besides being a writer, Rajendra Yadav was also a nominated a board member of Prasar Bharti in 1999–2001.