Shirish Panchal
{{short description|Indian Gujarati-language critic and writer (Born: 1943)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Shirish Panchal
| image = Shirish Panchal Gujarati writer.jpg
| caption = Panchal at his home in Vadodara, December 2017
| birth_name = Shirish Jagjivandas Panchal
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1943|03|07}}
| birth_place = Vadodara, Baroda State, British Raj
| occupation = Critic, Editor
| language = Gujarati
| nationality = Indian
| ethnicity =
| citizenship =
| notableworks = Vaat Aapanaa Vivechanni
| awards = Sahitya Academy Award
| signature = Shirish Panchal signature.svg
| module = {{Infobox academic
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| doctoral_advisor = Suresh Joshi
| thesis_title= Kavyavivechan Ni Samasyao
| thesis_url= http://gujlit.com/book-details.php?bId=142
| thesis_year= 1979
| doctoral_students= Sharifa Vijaliwala
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Shirish Jagjivandas Panchal (born 7 March 1943){{cite web |url= http://gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/sarjako/savishesh/Savishesh-Shirish-Panchal.html|title= સાહિત્યસર્જક: શિરિષ પંચાલ|first= Chandrakant|last= Topiwala|publisher= Gujarati Sahitya Parishad|language= Gujarati|trans-title=Writer: Shirish Panchal}} is a Gujarati critic, fiction writer, translator and editor. He won the 2009 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his criticism Vaat Aapanaa Vivechan-ni.{{cite web |url= http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/24/stories/2009122462072200.htm|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091227035225/http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/24/stories/2009122462072200.htm|url-status= dead|archive-date= 27 December 2009|title= Poets dominate 2009 Sahitya Akademi Awards|date= 24 December 2009|work= The Hindu|location= Ahmedabad}} He refused the award.{{cite web |title='Will returning award help?'|website=Ahmedabad Mirror|date=13 October 2015|url=https://ahmedabadmirror.indiatimes.com/ahmedabad/others/will-returning-award-help/articleshow/49328158.cms|access-date=15 February 2021}}
Biography
Panchal was born on 7 March 1943 in Vadodara. He passed his secondary and higher secondary board exams in 1978 and 1981 respectively. He completed his B.A. with Gujarati from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. After completing his M.A. in the same subject from the same university in 1966, he researched Poetic Criticism under the guidance of Suresh Joshi in 1980. Panchal received a PhD for his dissertation Kavyavivechan Ni Samasyao ({{literal translation|Problems of poetic criticism}}). He was a professor at Bilimora's College from 1965 to 1967{{cite journal |last=Vijaliwala |first=Sharifa |author-link=Sharifa Vijaliwala|script-title=gu:શિરિષ પંચાલ સાથે પ્રશ્નોત્તરી |title=Shirish Panchal Sathe Prashnottari |trans-title= Question & Answer with Shirish Panchal |date=November 2018 |volume=13 |issue=5 |pages=64–73 |language=gu |publisher=Gujarati Sahitya Parishad |location= Ahmedabad |url= |journal=Paarab}} and at Padra's College from 1967 to 1980. Since 1980 he has been a lecturer in the Gujarati Department of M.S. University, Vadodara. He taught Gujarati language and literature at M. S. University, Baroda.{{cite book|author=Śirīsha Pañcāla|title=B.K. Thakore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZZjWzi42eUC&pg=PA60|accessdate=31 August 2017|year=1998|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-0373-0|page=60}}
Works
His first One-act play was published in Vishvmangal magazine. His short stories Varsha, Vallari and Aaram was published in Navbharat in 1962.
He wrote a short essay on the novel (1984) under the Sahityaswarup Parichay series edited by Suman Shah. His Vaidehee Etle Ja Vaidehee is an experimental novel, which tell a love-story of Kirat and Vaidehee.{{cite journal|last=Thaker|first=Dhirubhai|author-link=Dhirubhai Thaker|title=Gujarati Scene: Less rewarding, least relenting|date=November–December 1989|journal=Indian Literature|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|volume=32|issue=6|page=54|jstor=23331306}} {{closed access}} He edited and published Maniti Anamaniti (1982), 21 selected short stories by Suresh Joshi, with discourse.{{cite journal|last=Topiwala|first=Chandrakant|author-link=Chandrakant Topiwala|title=Gujarati: Modernist Undertones|journal=Indian Literature|volume=26|issue=6|date=November–December 1983|pages=224–230 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi|publication-place=New Delhi|jstor=24158421}} {{closed access}} Problems of Poetic Criticism (1985) is his dissertation. Jara Motethi (1988) is his collection of essays. Ruprachanthi Vighatan ({{literal translation|The Dissolution of Form}}) (1986) is a critical treatise re-examining the concept of modernity.
He edited Etad, a Gujarati quarterly.
Awards
In 2009, He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his criticism Vaat Aapanaa Vivechan-ni but he refused the award.
See also
References
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External links
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- [https://gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/sarjako/savishesh/Savishesh-Shirish-Panchal.html Introduction on Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]
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Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Gujarati
Category:Indian literary critics
Category:Academic staff of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Category:21st-century Indian translators
Category:Gujarati-language writers
Category:Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda alumni
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