Sunita Jain (1941–2017) was an Indian scholar, novelist, short-story writer and poet of English and Hindi literature.

[1][2] She was a former professor and the Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

She started writing at the age of 22 and has published short stories, novels and poems in Hindi and English.

[18] In addition, she has translated Jainendra Kumar's Premchand: A Life and Letters (1993)[4] and Bunty a novel by Mannu Bhandari.

Several contemporary Hindi literature courses at major universities around the world incorporate the study of her work.

After her death, her family published the first translation into English, of a selection of her Hindi poetry Nothing is Lost (2000).

[20] Sunita Jain died in New Delhi on 11 December 2017 after a short battle with a rare blood disorder.

[1] Sunita Jain's collection of writings, awards, private papers, etc., are part of the permanent collection in the archives of Jamia Millia Islamia University at the Premchand Archives & Literary Centre: http://jmi.ac.in/jpalc/collections[1] In honor of her achievements, her family established the Sunita Jain Literary Award at her alma mater the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.