Nimit Oza

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Nimit Oza
Born (1981-10-03) 3 October 1981 (age 41)
Porbandar, Gujarat, India
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • columnist
  • doctor
Language Gujarati
NationalityIndian
Alma mater Government Medical College, Bhavnagar
Notable works
  • Pappa ni Girlfriend
  • Chromosome XY
Notable awards Darshak Award (2020)

Nimit Oza (born 3 October 1981) is an Indian writer, columnist, and doctor from Gujarat, India. An urologist by profession, he is known for his novel Chromosome XY (2019) and Pappa ni Girlfriend (2020). He won the 2020 Darshak Award for Chromosome XY.

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Biography

Nimit Oza was born on 3 October 1981 in Porbandar to Nikhil Oza and Harshana Oza. [1] He completed his schooling from Dakshinamurti Vinay Mandir, Bhavnagar in 1999. He completed MBBS from Government Medical College, Bhavnagar, and received DNB in Urology from Pune. [2] [3]

Works

Oza published his first novel, Chromosome XY, in 2019. It is a medical science fiction, and is based on the subject of male pregnancy. His other novels include Pappa ni Girlfriend (2020) and Aham Brahmasmi (2021). [4] His literary essays are collected in Maati no Manas (2017). His Ajvala no Autograph (2020) and Shwas ni Serendipity (2020) are the collections of articles on various subjects. [5] He writes weekly columns Ajvala no Autograph and Man no Monologue in Gujarati daily Divya Bhaskar . [1] [6]

Published works

Awards

Oza won the 2020 Darshak Award for Chromosome XY, for which, he also received the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi's Best Book Prize (2020). [7] He received the GLF Award (2017–18) for his book Mari Vahali Pariksha (2017). [6] [8]

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