Anila Amrutlal Dalal is

Gujarati Gujarati may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India * Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat * Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them * Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub ...

critic and

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Life

Dalal was born on 21 October 1933 in Ahmedabad to Amritlal Dalal. She completed SSC in 1949, BA in English in 1954, MA in English in 1956 and later Ph.D. from

Gujarat University The Gujarat University is a public state university located at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The university is an affiliating university at the under-graduate level and a teaching university at the postgraduate level. It is accredited B++ by NA ...

. She received MS from

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...

in 1959. She is a retired professor and Head of the Department of English at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Arts College, Ahmedabad where she taught from June 1960 to 1990s. She received PhD in 1990 from

for her thesis on novels of

Iris Murdoch Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( ; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her ...

Works

''Ravindranath ane Sharatchandrana Katha Sahityama Nari'' (1979) is two parts work on criticism on females in works of

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

and

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, alternatively spelt as Sarat Chandra Chatterjee ( bn, শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়; 15 September 1876 or ৩১ শে ভাদ্র ১২৮৩ বঙ্গাব্দ � ...

. The first part has seven articles on works of Tagore while second part has five articles on works of Chattopadhyay. ''Deshantar ''(1981) is a work on literature of several languages; German, Russian, Hebrew, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish and laureates;

Ted Hughes Edward James "Ted" Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest wri ...

, Harold Pinter,

Philip Larkin Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, ''The North Ship'', was published in 1945, followed by two novels, ''Jill'' (1946) and ''A Girl in Winter'' (1947 ...

, Bertolt Brecht, Alexander Solzhenitsyn,

. ''Darpannu Nagar'' (1987), ''Manushi - Shityama Nari'' (1993), ''Navalkathama Chetanapravah'' (1994) and ''Nivedan'' (1999) are her other works of criticism. She translated three Bengali novels of Sunil Gangopadhyay; ''Radhakrishna'' (1981), ''Aranyaman Deen Raat'' (1983) and ''Pratidwandwi'' (1986). She translated

Bimal Kar Bimal Kar (19 September 1921 — 26 August 2003) was an Indian writer and novelist who wrote in Bengali. He received the 1975 Sahitya Akademi Award presented by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, for his novel ''Asamay''. ...

's ''Balika Vadhu'' (1989) and ''Prachhanna'' (1991) from Bengali. She translated Devesh Ray's ''Tistakanthanu Vrutant'' (1997). She also translated ''Mahabharata: Ek Aadhunik Drishtikon'' (1980) by

Buddhadeb Bosu Buddhadeva Bose (; 1908–1974), also spelt Buddhadeb Bosu, was an Indian Bengali writer of the 20th century. Frequently referred to as a poet, he was a versatile writer who wrote novels, short stories, plays and essays in addition to poetry. ...

, ''Maharshi Devendranath Thakur'' (1980) by Narayan Chaudhary, ''Chaudhari, Laxminath Bejbarua'' (1985) by

Hem Barua Hem Barua (Assamese: হেম বৰুৱা) was a prominent Assamese poet and politician from Assam. Early life Born on 22 April 1915, at Tezpur, Hem Barua obtained his M.A. degree from Calcutta University in 1938 and joined the J.B. Co ...

. She also translated several essays of Tagore in ''Ravindra Nibandhmala Part 2'' (1976) and more than seventy songs of Tagore in ''Geet Panchshati'' (1978). She also translated letters of Tagore as ''Chinna Patra Marmar'' (1993). She also translated ''The Later Novels of Iris Murdoch'' (1993) from English. She translated ''Tarashankar Bandopadyay'' (1994) by

Mahasweta Devi Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016)
''

, ''Ravindra Sanchay'', ''Vrindavan Morli Vage Chhe''. She translated

Rama Mehta Rama Mehta (1923–1978) was an Indian sociologist and writer who is remembered above all for her novel '' Inside the Haveli'' (1977). The book won the Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which t ...

's English novel ''

Inside the Haveli ''Inside the Haveli'' is an English-language novel written by Rama Mehta. For this novel Mehta was conferred Sahitya Akademi Award in 1979. The story of the novel revolved around a young girl from Mumbai, India. She marries a son of a former Indian ...

'' as ''Havelini Andar'' (2003).

Awards

She received the

Gujarati Sahitya Parishad Gujarati Sahitya Parishad () is a literary organisation for the promotion of Gujarati literature located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It was founded by Ranjitram Mehta with the aim of creating literature appealing to all classes of society an ...

award in 1994, the

Gujarat Sahitya Academy The Gujarat Sahitya Akademi ( gu, ગુજરાત સાહિત્ય અકાદમી) or Gujarat Sahitya Academy, established in 1981, is a government institution dedicated to the development of the languages spoken in Gujarat, India an ...

award in 1994 and the

Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize or Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation is a literary honour in India, presented by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, given to "outstanding translations of creative and critical works" in 24 m ...

in 1993 for ''Prachhanna''.

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