Dileep Manubhai Jhaveri ( gu, દિલીપ મનુભાઈ ઝવેરી) is a Gujarati language poet, translator, playwright, editor and

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, India.

Biography

Jhaveri was born on 3 April 1943 in Mumbai, India to Manubhai Jhaveri. He serves on the editorial board of ''Kobita Review'', a

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-based bilingual (Bengali and English) journal, and is ''

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s contributing editor for Gujarati language.

Works

Jhaveri published a collection of Gujarati poetry entitled ''Pandukavyo ane Itar'' in 1989, followed by ''Khandit Kand ane Pachhi'' (2014) and ''Kavita Vishe Kavita'' (2017). ''Vyasochchvas'' (2003) is a play written by him, which was translated into English as ''A Breath of Vyas'' by Kamal Sanyal. Many of his poems have been anthologised and translated into English,

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. He has edited an anthology of contemporary Gujarati poetry in English translation titled ''Breath Becoming a Word''. The poet

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has translated his works into Irish.

Recognition

Jhaveri received the Critics Award in 1989, the Jayant Pathak Poetry Award in 1989 and the

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award in 1990. He was invited to the Asian Poets Conference in Korea in 1986 and Taiwan in 1995.

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