Editing Nagarjun (section)

{{Short description|Indian poet (1911–1998)}}
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| name             = Nagarjun
| image            = Nagarjun (1911-1998).jpg
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| birth_name       = Vaidyanath Mishra
| birth_date       = {{birth date|df=yes|1911|6|11}}<ref>[http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAserials/Biblio/nagarjun.html The People's poet – Nagarjun] ''Library'', ''[[University of Virginia]]''. ''From Biblio, Nov–Dec 1998, p. 8-9''.</ref>
<!-- Do not add flag icons to place of birth/death, per [[WP:FLAG]] -->| birth_place      = Satlakha Village, [[Darbhanga district]], Bihar, India
| death_date       = {{death date and age|df=yes|1998|11|5|1911|6|11}}
| death_place      = Khwaja Sarai, [[Darbhanga district]], Bihar,<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/208475.stm South Asia, Hindi poet, Nagarjun, dead] ''[[BBC News]]'', 5 November 1998.</ref> India
| spouse           = Aparajita Devi
| occupation       = {{hlist|Poet|writer|essayist|novelist|Buddhist}}
| pseudonym        = Nagarjun
| language         = Hindi, Maithili
| yearsactive      = 1930–1994
| awards           = {{plainlist|
* 1969: [[Sahitya Akademi Award]]
* 1994: [[Sahitya Akademi Fellowship]]
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'''Vaidyanath Mishra''' (11 June 1911 – 5 November 1998), better known by his [[pen name]] '''Nagarjun''', was a [[Hindi]] and [[Maithili language|Maithili]] poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, [[Biography in literature|literary biographies]] and travelogues, and was known as ''Janakavi''- the People's Poet. 
He is regarded as the most prominent protagonist of modernity in Maithili.<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98nov29/sunday/head4.htm An ocean of intellect passes into history] ''[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]'', 29 November 1998.</ref><ref>[http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv5n1/nagarjun.htm Obituary] ''www.revolutionarydemocracy.org''.</ref>