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Gujarati author

Suman Shah

b. 1939, born Dabhoi, writes in Gujarati, novelist, short story writer, literary critic

Suman Shah is a Gujarati language critic, short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor and translator from Gujarat, India. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2008 for his short story collection Fatfatiyun. He has written both in the modern and in the postmodern eras in Gujarati literature. He has authored more than 74 books, including 2 novels, 6 short story collections, 4 collections of creative essays, 6 translations into Gujarati from English and Hindi, 22 books on literary criticism and around 23 edited works of literary theory and modern Gujarati short stories and poems. He was honorary editor of Shabdasrishti from 1983 to 1986 and an editor of Khevna, a literary journal, from 1987 to 2009.

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Awards

2008Sahitya Akademi Award for Fatfatiun

Elsewhere

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Also writing in Gujarati

Anil Chavda

b. 1985Gujarati language poet and writer from India