Shirish Panchal

Indian Gujarati-language critic and writer (Born: 1943)

Shirish Panchal

Panchal at his home in Vadodara, December 2017

Born| Shirish Jagjivandas Panchal
(1943-03-07) 7 March 1943 (age 81)
Vadodara, Baroda State, British Raj
Occupation| Critic, Editor
Language| Gujarati
Nationality| Indian
Notable works| Vaat Aapanaa Vivechanni
Notable awards| Sahitya Academy Award
Signature
Academic background
Thesis| Kavyavivechan Ni Samasyao (1979)
Doctoral advisor| Suresh Joshi
Academic work
Doctoral students| Sharifa Vijaliwala

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Shirish Jagjivandas Panchal (born 7 March 1943)[1] 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.[1][2] He refused the award.[3]

## Biography

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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 (lit. 'Problems of poetic criticism'). He was a professor at Bilimora's College from 1965 to 1967[4] 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.[5]

## Works

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His first One-act play was published in Vishvmangal magazine. His short stories Varsha, Vallari and Aaram was published in Navbharat in 1962.[4]

He wrote a short essay on the novel (1984) under the Sahityaswarup Parichay series edited by Suman Shah.[4] His Vaidehee Etle Ja Vaidehee is an experimental novel, which tell a love-story of Kirat and Vaidehee.[6] He edited and published Maniti Anamaniti (1982), 21 selected short stories by Suresh Joshi, with discourse.[7] Problems of Poetic Criticism (1985) is his dissertation. Jara Motethi (1988) is his collection of essays. Ruprachanthi Vighatan (lit. 'The Dissolution of Form') (1986) is a critical treatise re-examining the concept of modernity.

He edited Etad, a Gujarati quarterly.

## Recognition

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In 2009, He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his criticism Vaat Aapanaa Vivechan-ni[1][2] but he refused the award.[3]

## See also

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* List of Gujarati-language writers

## References

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1. ^ a b c Topiwala, Chandrakant. "સાહિત્યસર્જક: શિરિષ પંચાલ" [Writer: Shirish Panchal] (in Gujarati). Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.
2. ^ a b "Poets dominate 2009 Sahitya Akademi Awards". The Hindu. Ahmedabad. 24 December 2009. Archived from the original on 27 December 2009.
3. ^ a b "'Will returning award help?'". Ahmedabad Mirror. 13 October 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
4. ^ a b c Vijaliwala, Sharifa (November 2018). "Shirish Panchal Sathe Prashnottari" શિરિષ પંચાલ સાથે પ્રશ્નોત્તરી [Question & Answer with Shirish Panchal]. Paarab (in Gujarati). 13 (5). Ahmedabad: Gujarati Sahitya Parishad: 64–73.64-73&rft.date=2018-11&rft.aulast=Vijaliwala&rft.aufirst=Sharifa&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Shirish+Panchal" class="Z3988">
5. ^ Śirīsha Pañcāla (1998). B.K. Thakore. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 60\. ISBN 978-81-260-0373-0. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
6. ^ Thaker, Dhirubhai (November–December 1989). "Gujarati Scene: Less rewarding, least relenting". Indian Literature. 32 (6). New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi: 54. JSTOR 23331306.
7. ^ Topiwala, Chandrakant (November–December 1983). "Gujarati: Modernist Undertones". Indian Literature. 26 (6). New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi: 224–230\. JSTOR 24158421.224-230&rft.date=1983-11/1983-12&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24158421#id-name=JSTOR&rft.aulast=Topiwala&rft.aufirst=Chandrakant&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Shirish+Panchal" class="Z3988">

## External links

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* Shirish Panchal on GujLit
* Introduction on Gujarati Sahitya Parishad

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Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati

1955–1975|

* Mahadev Desai (1955)
* Ramnarayan V. Pathak (1956)
* Sukhlal Sanghvi (1958)
* Rasiklal Parikh (1960)
* Ram Singhji Rathod (1961)
* Vishnuprasad Trivedi (1962)
* Rajendra Shah (1963)
* Dolarrai Mankad (1964)
* Kakasaheb Kalelkar (1965)
* Prabodh Pandit (1967)
* Tribhuvandas Luhar 'Sundaram' (1968)
* Swami Anand (1969) (Not Accepted)
* Nagindas Parekh (1970)
* Chandravadan Mehta (1971)
* Umashankar Joshi (1973)
* Anantrai Raval (1974)
* Manubhai Pancholi 'Darshak' (1975)

1976–2000|

* Natwarlal Pandya 'Ushnas' (1976)
* Raghuveer Chaudhari (1977)
* Harindra Dave (1978)
* Jagdish Joshi (1979)
* Jayant Pathak (1980)
* Harivallabh Bhayani (1981)
* Priyakant Maniyar (1982)
* Suresh Joshi (1983) (Not Accepted)
* Ramanlal Joshi (1984)
* Kundanika Kapadia (1985)
* Chandrakant Sheth (1986)
* Sitanshu Yashaschandra (1987)
* Bhagwatikumar Sharma (1988)
* Joseph Macwan (1989)
* Anil R. Joshi (1990)
* Labhshankar Thakar (1991)
* Bholabhai Patel (1992)
* Narayan Desai (1993)
* Ramesh Parekh (1994)
* Varsha Adalja (1995)
* Himanshi Shelat (1996)
* Ashokpuri Goswami (1997)
* Jayant Kothari (1998)
* Niranjan Bhagat (1999)
* Vinesh Antani (2000)

2001–present|

* Dhiruben Patel (2001)
* Dhruv Bhatt (2002)
* Bindu Bhatt (2003)
* Amritlal Vegad (2004)
* Suresh Dalal (2005)
* Ratilal 'Anil' (2006)
* Rajendra Shukla (2007)
* Suman Shah (2008)
* Shirish Panchal (2009) (Refused)
* Dhirendra Mehta (2010)
* Mohan Parmar (2011)
* Chandrakant Topiwala (2012)
* Chinu Modi (2013)
* Ashvin Mehta (2014)
* Rasik Shah (2015)
* Kamal Vora (2016)
* Urmi Desai (2017)
* Sharifa Vijaliwala (2018)
* Ratilal Borisagar (2019)
* Harish Meenashru (2020)
* Yagnesh Dave (2021)
* Gulam Mohammed Sheikh (2022)
* Vinod Joshi (2023)

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