Uday Prakash (born 1 January 1952) is a Hindi poet, scholar,[1] journalist, translator and short story writer from India.

[3][4] He is the first author to return his Sahitya Akademi award on September 3, 2015 against the killing of M. M. Kalburgi that initiated a storm of national protests by writers, artists, scholars and intellectuals.

[7][8] He graduated in Science and obtained his master's degree in Hindi Literature, receiving a Gold Medal from Saugar University in 1974.

At the same time, he was Controlling Officer of the Bhopal Rabindra Bhawan, and assistant editor of Poorvagraha, a journal of Hindi literary criticism.

)[13] From 1982 to 1990, Prakash worked in New Delhi newspapers; first as a subeditor of the Hindi news weekly Dinmaan,[14] and later as Assistant Editor of the Sunday Mail.

[27] His 2006 novella Mohan Das has been translated into English,[28] seven Indian languages,[29] and adapted by the author for the "Mohandas" screenplay (2009).

[37] Translations of Prakash's work He is read in all Indian languages, and his translated fiction regularly features in English and German collections,[41] magazines, and complete texts: 'Sahitya Akademi film's on writers Prakash has produced several films about important Hindi writers such as Ram Vilas Sharma.