Dhiru Parikh
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| 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.
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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 and Kavilok magazines.[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] and Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 2008.
