Balendu Dwivedi

Balendu Dwivedi is an Indian novelist, short-story writer and literary critic who writes in the Hindi language, and a screenwriter and director of feature films and documentaries. He is best known for his satirical novels of rural and small-town northern India, beginning with his debut Madaripur Junction (2017), a work widely compared in the Hindi press to Shrilal Shukla’s Raag Darbari. His written work spans the novel, drama, the short story, literary criticism, travel writing and literary biography. Alongside these pursuits he is an officer of the Provincial Civil Service (allied) of the Government of Uttar Pradesh.

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