Shivani Gaura Pant

Gaura Pant, who was better known as Shivani, was a pioneer of women’s fiction in India. Her stories were serialised in Hindi magazines throughout the 60s and 70s. One of the most-loved Hindi authors of recent times, most of her corpus of work has not been translated to English. She was awarded the Padma Shri for her contribution to Hindi Literature in 1982.