Neelabh Ashk (16 August 1945 – 23 July 2016) was an Indian Hindi language poet, journalist, and translator.
He is best known for translating the works of notable authors like Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, and Mikhail Lermontov.
He separated from his first wife, after she died, he married second time girl named Bhumika Dwivedi Ashk, another writer, artist and social worker .
[3] Ashk translated Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize winning novel The God Of Small Things to Hindi as Mamuli Cheezon Ka Devta.
[3] He also translated Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence, as well as various works of William Shakespeare and German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
[4] Brecht's popular play Mother Courage and Her Children was rendered into Hindi as Himmat Mai.