Any one can give the biography on the premchand writer
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Born in Lamhi, a village near Varanasi on July 31, 1880, Dhanpat Rai Srivastav went on to become one of India's greatest literary figures and was popularly known by his pen name Munshi Premchand. Premchand received his early education at a madrasa in Lalpur, where he learnt Urdu and Persian.
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Dhanpat Rai was born on 31 July 1880 in Lamhi, a village located near Varanasi (Benares). His ancestors came from a large Kayastha family, which owned eight to nine of land.His grandfather, Guru Sahai Rai was a patwari (village land record-keeper), and his father Ajaib Lal was a post office clerk. His mother was Anandi Devi of Karauni village, who probably was also his inspiration for the character Anandi in his "Bade Ghar Ki Beti".
As a child, Dhanpat Rai sought solace in fiction, and developed a fascination for books. He heard the stories of the Persian-language fantasy epic Tilism-e-Hoshruba at a tobacconist's shop. He took the job of selling books for a book wholesaler, thus getting the opportunity to read a lot of books. He learnt English at a missionary school, and studied several works of fiction including George W. M. Reynolds's eight-volume The Mysteries of the Court of London.He composed his first literary work at Gorakhpur, which was never published and is now lost.Dhanpat Rai first wrote under the pseudonym "Nawab Rai". His first short novel was Asrar-e-Ma'abid ("Secrets of God's abode", Devasthan Rahasya in Hindi), which explores corruption among the temple priests and their sexual exploitation of poor women.
Premchand was elected as the first President of the Progressive Writers'.Premchand wrote over three hundred short stories and fourteen novels, many essays and letters, plays and translations.[54] Many of Premchand's works were translated into English and Russian after his death.