Nalin Chandrakant Raval (17 March 1933 – 5 April 2021) was a

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- ...

poet and short story writer from India. Born in Ahmedabad and educated in languages, he taught in colleges. He published five poetry collections along with short stories. He received several awards including

Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak, also known as the Ranjitram Gold Medal, was founded by Gujarat Sahitya Sabha and is considered the highest literary award in Gujarati literature. The award is named after renowned Gujarati writer Ranjitram Mehta. It is ...

Life

Nalin Raval was born on 17 March 1933 at

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...

. He was native of

Wadhwan Wadhwan, also spelled Vadhwan, is a city and a municipality in Surendranagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Located on the banks of the Bhogavo River, around 3 km from Surendranagar and 111 km from Ahmedabad, Wadhwan is a kn ...

. He completed his primary education from

Kalupur Kalupur is a central area in Ahmedabad, the financial centre of Gujarat, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, ...

School No. 7 and secondary education from New Education High school. He completed his matriculation in 1954. He completed B.A. in Gujarati and English in 1956 and M. A. in 1959. In 1953, his first poem was published in ''

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'' magazine. He briefly taught in

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and

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before joining B. D. Arts College at Ahmedabad as a professor of English. He retired in 1993. He married Kumud in 1963. He had three sons Kartik, Ashutosh, Biren and a daughter Rajul. Raval died on 5 April 2021.

Works

He had published five poetry collections. ''Udagar'' (Utterance, 1962) is a collection of twenty one poems. ''Avkash'' (1972), ''Laylin'' (1996) and ''Aahlaad'' (2008) are his other poetry collections. ''Swapnalok'' (1977) is a collection of sixteen short stories. ''Paschatya Kavita'' (1973) is a work of criticism on Western poetry. ''Kavitanu Swarup'' (2001) is critical survey of other poets and their works. ''Anubhav'' (1975) is essays on his relation with poetry. He edited ''Priyakant Maniyar'', an introduction of his author friend,

Priyakant Maniyar Priyakant Premachand Maniyar (24 January 1927 – 25 June 1976) was a Gujarati poet from Gujarat, India. He published seven collections of symbolic and imagist poetry, and was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award posthumously in 1982 for ''Lilero Dh ...

. He translated ''Sindhi Sahityana Itihasni Rooprekha'' (Timeline of History of Sindhi Literature, 1977).

Awards

He was awarded

Kavishwar Dalpatram Award The Kavishwar Dalpatram Award (Gujarati: કવિશ્વર દલપતરામ ઍવોર્ડ) is a literary honour in Gujarat, India given by Vardhman Vikas Seva Trust, Wadhwan. The award is conferred annually to the Gujarati language p ...

in 2010 and

Narsinh Mehta Award Narsinh Mehta Award (Gujarati: નરસિંહ મહેતા પુરસ્કાર) is one of the highest awards of Gujarati literature. The award is conferred upon Gujarati language author by Adyakavi Narsinh Mehta Sahitya Nidhi, Junagadh, ...

in 2013. He was also awarded

for 2013.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Raval, Nalin 1933 births 2021 deaths Writers from Ahmedabad Gujarati-language poets 20th-century Indian poets 20th-century Indian short story writers Poets from Gujarat Recipients of the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak

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