Shiv Prasaad Singh (19 August 1928 – 28 September 1998) was an Indian writer, university professor and scholar of the Hindi language.
Shiv Prasaad Singh was born into a peasant family in the village of Jalalpur in the Benares district of United Provinces.
He continued his education at Benares Hindu University from where he obtained his BA, MA and PhD degrees.
[citation needed] It is the second part of his Kashi Trilogy which was inspired by Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet.
"[3] The third novel in the series, Gali Age Mudti Hai, that was the first to be published in 1967, put Singh at the forefront of city-fiction writers in Hindi.