Mahendrasinh Parmar

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Mahendrasinh Parmar
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Mahendrasinh Parmar At Gujarat Literature Festival December 2016
Born (1967-10-02) 2 October 1967 (age 57)
Naliya, Kutch district, Gujarat
Occupationwriter, playwright
Language Gujarati
NationalityIndian
Education
  • Master of Arts
  • Ph.D.
Alma mater Bhavnagar University
Genresshort story, play
Academic background
Thesis 'Kishansinh Chavda: A Literary Genious[sic]'
Doctoral advisor Vinod Joshi

Mahendrasinh Parmar is a Gujarati writer and professor from Gujarat, India. His works include Polytechnic (2016) and Rakhdu no Kagal (2016). He has also written plays.

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Life

He was born on 2 October 1967 in Naliya, a town in Kutch district of Gujarat. [1] He completed his Master of Arts in Gujarati literature from Bhavnagar University and received Ph.D. from same university in 1998. [2] He serves as professor at Bhavnagar University since 1996. [3]

He married in 1996 and has two daughters. He lives in Bhavnagar. [2]

Works

Since 2002, his short stories appeared in various collections of Gujarati short stories. He has done numerous shows of public reading of literary works under the title Vachikam. [2] His critical works were published as Pratham in 2009. Polytechnic (2016) is a short story collection while Rakhdu no Kagal (2016) is a collection of his personal essays. He wrote several plays. [1]

Awards

His book Polytechnic (2016) was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Award (2020). [4]

References

  1. 1 2 Hariyani, Vaidehi (2016-03-17). "Analysis of short story "Udancharkaldi" by Mahendrasinh Parmar with help of Cultural Studies". Vaidehi's Assignments 2015-2017. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  2. 1 2 3 "Introduction of writer Mahendrasinh Parmar". Muse India. ISSN   0975-1815. Archived from the original on 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  3. ↑ "M K Bhavnagar University Official Website". M K Bhavnagar University Official Website. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  4. ↑ "Sahitya Akademi Award 2020" (PDF). Sahitya Akademi. 12 March 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 March 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
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