सच्चिदानन्द हीरानन्द वात्स्यायन 'अज्ञेय' (Agyeya)

Hindi poet, novelist and editor, the central figure of the Nayi Kavita movement. · 1911–1987

Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan, who wrote as Agyeya, was among the most consequential Hindi writers of the twentieth century. He edited the Tar Saptak anthologies from 1943, which introduced a generation of poets and effectively began the Nayi Kavita movement, and his novel Shekhar: Ek Jeevani broke with the social realism that dominated Hindi fiction before it. He was imprisoned for several years for his part in the independence movement, and later worked as an editor and teacher in India and abroad. He received the Jnanpith Award in 1978.