Suresh Hariprasad Joshi ( gu, સુરેશ હરિપ્રસાદ જોષી) was an Indian novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, translator, editor and academic in the

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. Along with his teaching career, he led the modernist movement in

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. He was prolific writer and he transformed the field of literary criticism.

Life

Department of Gujarati at M S University

He was born in

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, a small town near

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on 30 May 1921. He did his schooling from Songadh and Gangadhara. He

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from

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in 1938. He completed his BA in 1943 and MA from

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in 1945. In the same year, he started teaching at D. J. Singh College in

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and later joined

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in 1947. From 1951, he served as a lecturer, professor and later as Head of the Gujarati Department at the

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till his retirement in 1981. His early life was spent at Songadh which influenced his life. At the age of eight, he secretly published his poem in ''Baljeevan'' magazine. He edited ''Falguni'' magazine in his college life. ''Upjati'' (1956) was his first published work. He had also edited ''Manisha'', ''Kshitij'', ''Etad'' and ''Uhapoh'' magazines. He died on 6 September 1986 due to

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