Dhiru Parikh

Dhiru Parikh
Born Dhiru Ishwarlal Parikh
31 August 1933
Viramgam, Gujarat
Occupation poet, critic and story writer
Language Gujarati
Notable awards Kumar Chandrak 1971

Dhiru Ishwarlal Parikh (born 31 August 1933) is Gujarati poet, short story writer and critic from India.

Biography

Dhiru Parikh is born on 31 August 1933 at Viramgam near Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He completed his matriculation in 1951 from the town. He completed B.A. in 1955, M.A. in 1958 and Ph.D. in 1967. Since 1955, he teaches at C. U. Shah College. He was associated with SNDT Women's University from 1967 to 1969. He served as the principal of Mahila Arts College of Wadhwan. Later he served as a head of the Department of Gujarati, School of Languages, Gujarat University and retired in 1993. He edited bimonthly Kavilok publishing Gujarati poetry. He served as president of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad from December 2013 to December 2014. He currently works with Kumar magazine.[1][2][3]

Works

Short stories

His first work published in 1951 was a short story titled Pehlu Rudan. His short story collection Kantakni Khushbo (1964) has twenty two stories.[2]

Poetry

'Ughad (1979) is a collection of poetry. Ang Pachisi (1982) is a collection of twenty five traditional Chhappa styled sarcastic poems. Aagiya (1982) is a collection of Haikus.[2]

Biography

He wrote biography of Rajendra Shah under Gujarati Granthkar Shreni and published in 1977. Rasyug ma Prakritinirupan (Nature in medieval literature of Raas, 1978) is his research essay. Atratya Tatratya (1978) is a collection of introductory essays on poets which include Gujarati poets along with C. K. Louis, W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, Eugenio Montale and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Narsinh Mehta (1981) is a biography of Narsinh Mehta. Kharakshar (1982) has short introduction of several Gujarati authors including Dayaram, Dalpatram, Narmad. Priyakant Maniyar, Jagdish Joshi, Manilal Desai. Kaalma Korya Naam (1977) is a collection of short biographies including Yasunari Kawabata, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Charles Dickens, Dalpatram, Pujya Mota.[2]

Criticism

Samkalin Kavio (1983) is criticism of poetry of contemporary poets including Labhshankar Thakar, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Rajendra Shukla, Ravji Patel, Adil Mansuri. Ubhayanvaya (1986) is a collection of criticism.[2]

Editing

He edited several books Nishkulanand Padavali (1981), Saar Mahakavyo (1983), Panch Mahakavyo (1984) and T. S. Eliot (1989).[2]

Others

Tulnatmak Sahitya (1984) is a work on comparative literature.[2]

Awards

He was awarded Kumar Chandrak in 1971.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Dhirubhai Parikh becomes new President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad". DeshGujarat. December 24, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 "Dhirubhai Parikh" (in Gujarati). Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Khan, Saeed (18 August 2013). "Master of metre". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 March 2015.