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- ...
: હિમાંશી ઇન્દુલાલ શેલત; born 8 January 1947) is a Gujarati author from
Gujarat
Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...
, India. She received
Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati
Sahitya Akademi Award to Gujarati Writers by Sahitya Akademi. No Awards were conferred in 1957, 1959, 1966 and 1972. In 1969, Swami Anand, in 1983, Suresh Joshi, and in 2009 Shirish Panchal refused this award.
Recipients
References
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in 1996 for her short stories collection ''Andhari Galima Safed Tapakan'' (1992).
Life
She was born on 8 January 1947 in
Surat
Surat is a city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The word Surat literally means ''face'' in Gujarati and Hindi. Located on the banks of the river Tapti near its confluence with the Arabian Sea, it used to be a large seaport. It is now ...
, Gujarat. She completed
Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...
in 1966 and
Master of Arts
A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...
in 1968. She obtained her Ph.D. on "
V.S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (; 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienati ...
's novel" in 1981–82. She taught English literature at M.T.B. Arts College, Surat from 1968 to her voluntary retirement in October 1994. She served as an advisory board member in
Sahitya Akademi
The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its of ...
for 2013–2017.
She married Vinod Meghani, son of renowned Gujarati writer
Jhaverchand Meghani
Jhaverchand or Zaverchand Kalidas Meghani ( – ) was an Indian poet, writer, social reformer and freedom fighter. He is a well-known name in the field of Gujarati literature. He was born in Chotila where the Government College has been rena ...
, on 4 October 1995. Vinod Meghani died on 15 February 2009.
Works
She wrote her first story ''Saat Pagathiya Andhara Koovama'' in 1978 and published in ''Navneet'', a Gujarati magazine. Later the story was published as the best short story in ''Milap'', a magazine published from
Bhavnagar
Bhavnagar is a city in the Bhavnagar district of the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, a States of India, state of India. It was founded in 1723 by Gohil Koli, Bhavsinhji Takhtasinhji Gohil (1703–1764). It was the capital of Bhavnagar State, whi ...
. She is influenced by Indian authors such as
Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016) ''
,
Ashapoorna Devi
Ashapurna Devi (8 January 1909 – 12 July 1995), also Ashapoorna Devi or Ashapurna Debi, was a prominent Indian novelist and poet in Bengali. In 1976, she was awarded the Jnanpith Award and Padma Shri by the Government of India, D.Litt. by ...
,
Phanishwar Nath 'Renu'
Phanishwar Nath Mandal 'Renu' (4 March 1921 – 11 April 1977) was one of the most successful and influential writers of modern Hindi literature in the post-Premchand era. He is the author of ''Maila Anchal'', which after Premchand's ''Godaan'' ...
and
Jaywant Dalvi
Jaywant Dalvi (14 August 1925 – 16 September 1994) was a prominent contemporary Marathi writer in Maharashtra, India, originally from Arawali (Dist.Sindhudurg, Tal. Vengurle) in Maharashtra.
He worked as an assistant editor at Marathi newspape ...
as well as English authors such as
Jane Austen
Jane Austen (; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots of ...
and
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wro ...
.
''Antaral'', her first anthology of short stories, published in 1987 was followed by, ''Andhari Galima Safed Tapaka'' (1992), ''Ae Loko'' (1997), ''Sanjno Samay'' (2002), ''Panchavayka'' (2002), ''Khandaniyama Mathu'' (2004) and ''Garbhagatha'' (2009). ''Aathamo Rang'' (2001), ''Kyarima Aakash Pushpa ane Kala Patangiya'' (2006) and ''Saptadhara'' (2012) are three of her novels while ''Ekadani Chaklio'' (2004) and ''Dabe Hathe'' (2012) are her collections of essays. Her reminiscent writings are published as ''Platform number 4'' (1998) and ''Victor'' (1999) while her literary criticism is published as ''Paravastavavad'' (Surrealism; 1987) and ''Gujarati Kathasahityama Narichetna'' (Women consciousness in Gujarati prose; 2000).
''Swami Ane Sai'' (1993), ''Antar-Chhabi'' (1998) and ''Pehlo Akshar'' (2005) are edited by her. ''Nokha Mijajno Anokho Chitrakar (Mahendra Desai)'' (2004) is her work of translation.
Awards
She received
Sahitya Akadami Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...
for Gujarati in 1996 for her short story collection ''Andhari Galima Safed Tapakan'' (1992). The same book also received prize from
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 ...
.
See also
*
List of Gujarati-language writers
Well known laureates of Gujarati literature are Hemchandracharya, Narsinh Mehta, Mirabai, Akho, Premanand Bhatt, Shamal Bhatt, Dayaram, Dalpatram, Narmad, Govardhanram Tripathi, Mahatma Gandhi, K. M. Munshi, Umashankar Joshi, Suresh Joshi, Pan ...