Career
Acharya Shivpujan Sahay was a noted Hindi Novelist, editor and a Prose Writer. He moved to Lucknow in 1924 to join the editorial department of where he worked with noted Hindi author Munshi Premchand and edited his and some of his other stories. In 1925, he returned to Calcutta and engaged in editing short-lived journals such as,, Golmal,Upanyas Tarang.
Finally, Sahay moved to Varanasi (Kāśi) to work as a freelance editors
Foreign a short period in 1931, he went to Sultanganj near Bhagalpur to edit Ganga. Sahay once again found himself working with Premchand.
In 1935, he moved to Laheria Sarai (Darbhanga) to work as editor of and other publications of Pustak Bhandar owned by Acharya Ramlochan Saran. In 1939, he joined Rajendra College, Chhapra as a Professor of Hindi Language.
In 1946, on a year"s leave, he moved to Patna to edit, a literary monthly which was published by Pustak Bhandar owned by Acharya Ramlochan Saran.
In 1949, Sahay finally came to Patna to work as Secretary of Bihar Rashtra Bhasha Parished, a government academy where he edited and published more than 50 volumes of Hindi reference works. Later he became Director of the Parishad and compiled and edited a literary history. His own works were compiled and published in 4 volumes of Shipujan Rachanavali (1956-1959).
Shivpujan Sahay is also remembered for his editing of several literary commemoration volumes, chiefly Dwivedi Abhinandan Granth (1933),Anugrah Abhinandan Granth (1946), Rajendra Abhinandan Granth (1950) and Jayanti Smarak Granth (1942).
He also edited Doctor Rajendra Prasad"son He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1960.
He died in Patna on January 21, 1963. His posthumously published books are Wey Din Wey Log (1965), Mera Jeevan (1985), Smritishesh (1994), Hindi Bhasha Aur Sahitya (1996), and Gram Sudhar (2007).
