Niranjan Bhagat

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| caption= Bhagat at his residence in Ahmedabad, 2005

| birth_date= {{Birth date|1926|5|18|df=yes}}

| birth_place= Ahmedabad, Bombay Presidency, British India

| death_date= {{death date and age|2018|2|1|1926|5|18|df=y}}

| death_place= Ahmedabad, India

| occupation = Poet, essayist, critic, editor

| language = Gujarati, English

| nationality = Indian

| education =

| notableworks = Gujarati Sahiyta – Purvardha Uttarardha

| awards = Sahitya Academy Award (1999)

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Niranjan Narhari Bhagat (18 May 1926 – 1 February 2018) was{{cite web |title=Remembering Niranjan Bhagat (1926-2018), a giant of Gujarati poetry |url=https://scroll.in/article/867310/remembering-niranjan-bhagat-1926-2018-a-giant-of-gujarati-poetry |website=scroll.in |date=3 February 2018 |accessdate=18 August 2018 |archive-date=18 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818150609/https://scroll.in/article/867310/remembering-niranjan-bhagat-1926-2018-a-giant-of-gujarati-poetry |url-status=live }} an Indian Gujarati language poet, critic and translator who won the 1999 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his critical work Gujarati Sahiyta – Purvardha Uttarardha. He was also an English poet, and had written over a hundred poems in English, most being written in the style of Gitanjali.{{cite web |title=Kavi Kosh - Niranjan Bhagat |url=http://kavitakosh.org/kk/%E0%AA%A8%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%82%E0%AA%9C%E0%AA%A8_%E0%AA%AD%E0%AA%97%E0%AA%A4 |website=kavitakosh.org |accessdate=17 October 2018 |archive-date=31 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031061819/http://kavitakosh.org/kk/%E0%AA%A8%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%82%E0%AA%9C%E0%AA%A8_%E0%AA%AD%E0%AA%97%E0%AA%A4 |url-status=live }}

Early life

Niranjan Narhari Bhagat was born on 18 May 1926 in Ahmedabad.{{cite web|url= http://gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/sarjako/savishesh/Savishesh-Niranjan-Bhagat.html|title= સાહિત્યસર્જક: નિરંજન ભગત|first= Chandrakant|last= Topiwala|publisher= Gujarati Sahitya Parishad|language= Gujarati|trans-title= Writer: Niranjan Bhagat|access-date= 29 October 2011|archive-date= 13 June 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120613212212/http://gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/sarjako/savishesh/Savishesh-Niranjan-Bhagat.html|url-status= live}}{{cite book|author=Kartik Chandra Dutt|title=Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QA1V7sICaIwC&pg=PA131|year=1999|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-0873-5|page=131|access-date=23 October 2016|archive-date=15 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215103357/https://books.google.com/books?id=QA1V7sICaIwC&pg=PA131|url-status=live}} He completed M.A. in English Literature in 1950.

Career

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Bhagat joined L. D. Arts College as a lecturer. Later he joined Saint Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, as a professor of English in 1975 and served there until his retirement.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&pg=PA420|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A–Devo|author=Amaresh Datta|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|year=1987|isbn=978-81-260-1803-1|pages=420–421|access-date=23 October 2016|archive-date=15 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215103107/https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&pg=PA420|url-status=live}} He served as the president of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 1997–98. He also served as a member of Advisory Board for Gujarati, Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, from 1963 to 1968.

He received Narmad Suvarna Chandrak in 1953 for his book Chhandolay and Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999 for his critical work Gujarati Sahiyta – Purvardha Uttarardha. He also received Kumar Suvarna Chandrak in 1949, Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1969, Premanand Suvarna Chandrak in 1998, Sachchidanand Sanman in 2000 and the Narsinh Mehta Award in 2001.{{cite web | url=http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10318.htm#gujarati | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331234109/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10318.htm#gujarati | archivedate=2009-03-31 | title=Sanskrit Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955–2007 | publisher=Sahitya Akademi Official website | url-status=dead }}

Death

Bhagat died of a stroke on 1 February 2018 at a hospital in Ahmedabad at the age of 91.{{cite web|url=http://deshgujarat.com/2018/02/01/veteran-gujarati-poet-litterateur-niranjan-bhagat-passes-away/|title=Veteran Gujarati Poet Niranjan Bhagat passes away|publisher=Deshgujarat|accessdate=1 February 2018|date=1 February 2018|archive-date=2 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202013715/http://deshgujarat.com/2018/02/01/veteran-gujarati-poet-litterateur-niranjan-bhagat-passes-away/|url-status=live}}

Niranjan Bhagat

Early life

Career

Death

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