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About Govind Mishra
- Govind Mishra (born 1 August 1939) is an Indian novelist, who has written more than 53 books.
- He was also a civil servant with Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and retired as Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes in 1997.
- Over the years, he has written 11 novels, 14 short story collections, five travelogues, five literary essays collection, a poem collection and 2 story books for children.He has been awarded the most prestigious Hindi awards namely Vyas Samman (1998) and Sahitya Akademi Award (2008).
- He received Saraswati Samman for the year 2013 for his book Dhool Paudho Par published in 2008.
- This honour made him the second Hindi author to receive the honour after Harivansh Rai Bachchan in 1991.
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