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{{Infobox writer
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| birth_name = Anila Amrutlal Dalal
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1933|10|21}}
| birth_place = [[Ahmedabad, Gujarat]], India
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| occupation = Literary critic, translator
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| education = M.A., M.S., Ph.D.
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* [[University of Illinois]]
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'''Anila Amrutlal Dalal''' is [[Gujarati language|a Gujarati]] [[critic]] and [[translator]].

==Life==
Dalal was born on 21 October 1933 in [[Ahmedabad]] to Amritlal Dalal. She completed her SSC in 1949, [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in English in 1954, MA in English in 1956, and later Ph.D. from [[Gujarat University]]. She received an MS from the [[University of Illinois]] in 1959. She is a retired professor and Head of the Department of English at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Arts College, Ahmedabad,<ref name="Akademi2006">{{cite book|author=Sahitya Akademi|title=Annual Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VsNLAQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|page=39}}</ref> where she taught from June 1960 to the 1990s. She received PhD in 1990 from [[Gujarat University]] for her thesis on the novels of [[Iris Murdoch]].<ref name=AGSI>{{cite book|title=અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઈતિહાસ - આધુનિક અને અનુઆધુનિક યુગ (History of Modern Gujarati Literature – Modern and Postmodern Era)|first=Prasad|last=Brahmabhatt |publisher=Parshwa Publication|location=Ahmedabad|year=2010|pages=322–323|language=gu|isbn=978-93-5108-247-7}}</ref><ref name="Dutt1999">{{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=PA261|date=1 January 1999|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-0873-5|page=261}}</ref><ref name=gsp>{{cite web|url=http://gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/sarjako/savishesh/Savishesh-Anila-Dalal.html |title=Anila Dalal|publisher=[[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]|access-date =13 September 2015|language =Gujarati}}</ref>

==Works==
''Ravindranath ane Sharatchandrana Katha Sahityama Nari'' (1979) is two parts work on criticism of females in the works of [[Rabindranath Tagore]] and [[Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]]. The first part has seven articles on the works of Tagore, while the second part has five articles on the works of Chattopadhyay. ''Deshantar ''(1981) is a work on literature of several languages: German, Russian, Hebrew, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish and laureates; [[Ted Hughes]], [[Harold Pinter]], [[Philip Larkin]], [[Bertolt Brecht]], [[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]], [[Iris Murdoch]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eXBjAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Sähitya Akademi.|page=161}}</ref> ''Darpannu Nagar'' (1987), ''Manushi - Shityama Nari'' (1993), ''Navalkathama Chetanapravah'' (1994), and ''Nivedan'' (1999) are her other works of criticism.<ref name="Dutt1999"/><ref name=gsp/><ref name=AGSI/>

She translated three Bengali novels of [[Sunil Gangopadhyay]]: ''Radhakrishna'' (1981), ''Aranyaman Deen Raat'' (1983), and ''Pratidwandwi'' (1986). She translated [[Bimal Kar]]'s ''Balika Vadhu'' (1989) and ''Prachhanna'' (1991) from Bengali. She translated Devesh Ray's ''Tistakanthanu Vrutant'' (1997). She also translated ''Mahabharata: Ek Aadhunik Drishtikon'' (1980) by [[Buddhadeb Bosu]], ''Maharshi Devendranath Thakur'' (1980) by Narayan Chaudhary, ''Chaudhari, Laxminath Bejbarua'' (1985) by [[Hem Barua]]. She also translated several essays of Tagore in ''Ravindra Nibandhmala Part 2'' (1976) and more than seventy songs of Tagore in ''Geet Panchshati'' (1978). She also translated letters of Tagore as ''Chinna Patra Marmar'' (1993). She also translated ''The Later Novels of Iris Murdoch'' (1993) from English. She translated ''Tarashankar Bandopadyay'' (1994) by [[Mahasweta Devi]], ''Ravindra Sanchay'', and ''Vrindavan Morli Vage Chhe''.<ref name="Dutt1999"/><ref name=gsp/><ref name=AGSI/> She translated [[Rama Mehta]]'s English novel ''[[Inside the Haveli]]'' as ''Havelini Andar'' (2003).<ref name="Rao2004">{{cite book|last=Rao|first=D. S.|title=Five Decades: The National Academy of Letters, India : a Short History of Sahitya Akademi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JDsBBDoMccC&pg=PA48|year=2004|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-2060-7|page=48}}</ref>

==Awards==
She received the [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]] award in 1994, the [[Gujarat Sahitya Academy]] award in 1994, and the [[Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize]] in 1993 for ''Prachhanna''.<ref name="Dutt1999"/><ref name=gsp/><ref name=AGSI/>

==See also==
* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]

==References ==
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[[Category:20th-century Indian translators]]
[[Category:Indian literary critics]]
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[[Category:Translators of Rabindranath Tagore]]

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