Jyotish Jagannath Jani (born 9 November 1928 – 2005) was a

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novelist, poet and short story writer from

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, India.

Life

Jyotish Jani was born on 9 November 1928 at Peej village (now in

Kheda district Kheda District is one of the thirty-three districts of Gujarat state in western India. Its central city, Kheda, is the administrative headquarters of the district. History Formerly known as Kaira district, it was divided in two with the sou ...

, Gujarat). He studied in

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and

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in 1945. In 1951, he completed B. Sc. in Chemistry from M. T. B. College. He did a Diploma in Journalism in 1963. He had a job in Accountant General in

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which he left and joined editing department in ''

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'' daily where he worked from 1962 to 1966. He was appointed subeditor there. In 1966-67, he worked as the Assistant Publicity Officer in Jyoti Limited,

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. From 1974 to 1977, he was the Publicity and Public Relations Officer in Citizen's Council, Vadodara. He served as a subeditor in ''

Gujarat Samachar ''Gujarat Samachar'' is a Gujarati-language daily newspaper published in India. Its headquarters are in Ahmedabad with a branch in Surat. It is distributed from Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Mumbai, Mehsana, Bhuj and New Y ...

'' daily from 1983 to 1986. He later served as a subeditor of ''Loksatta'' daily. He was an editor of ''Sangnya'' and editor of ''

Shabdasrishti ''Shabdasrishti'' ( gu, શબ્દસૃષ્ટિ, Śabdasr̥ṣṭi, World of Words), the journal of the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, is a Gujarati literary magazine, published on the fifth of every month. The magazine was started in 1983, a ye ...

'' (October 1986 - February 1990) magazines. He died in 2005.

Works

Jani's first novella, ''Chakhadie Chadhi Chalya Hasmukhlal'' was a

tragicomedy Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragedy, tragic and comedy, comic forms. Most often seen in drama, dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the ov ...

. ''Achala'' (1980) was his second novel. ''Char Divalo Ek Hanger'' (1967), ''Abhnivesh'' (1975), ''Pandar Adhunik Vartao'' (1977) are his collections of short stories. ''Shabdna Landscape'' (1981) is his essay collection while ''Feenni Divalo'' (1966) is his poetry collection. ''Samvad-Vivad'' (1983) is his work of criticism which includes his questionnaire with

Suresh Joshi Suresh Hariprasad Joshi ( gu, સુરેશ હરિપ્રસાદ જોષી) was an Indian novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, translator, editor and academic in the Gujarati language. Along with his teaching career, h ...

. ''

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...

'' is his study work. ''Urdu Vartao'' (1972) and ''Muktamanav'' (1978) are his translations. ''Jyotish Janini Vartasrishti'' (2013) is a collection of his selected stories edited by

Mohan Parmar Mohan Parmar ( gu, મોહન પરમાર b. 15 March 1948) is a Gujarati language short story writer, novelist and critic. Parmar won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati in 2011 for his short story collection ''Anchalo''. He was earlier ...

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