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| caption = Ashwini Bhatt at Ahmedabad, 2012<br />
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| birth_place = [[Ahmedabad]], India<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|12|10|1936|8|12|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Dallas]], Texas, United States<br />
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| occupation = Novelist, actor and activist<br />
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'''Ashwini Bhatt''' (1936&nbsp;– 2012) was a [[Gujarati language]] novelist.<br />
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==Life==<br />
He was born to educationist Harprasad Bhatt and Sharadaben Bhatt on 12 July 1936 in [[Ahmedabad]]. He graduated in [[psychology]]. He was interested in theatre and he worked as a child artist in Gujarati adoption of Bengali drama ''Bindur Chhele'' (Bindu No Kiko). He had failed in several business ventures like poultry farm to a vegetable vendor before starting career as a writer. He moved to United States in 2002. He died on 10 December 2012 at [[Dallas]], Texas, US.<ref name=toi>{{cite news|title=Novelist Ashwini Bhatt dies in US|date=Dec 11, 2012|url=http://m.timesofindia.com/city/ahmedabad/Novelist-Ashwini-Bhatt-dies-in-US/articleshow/17563903.cms|work=The Times of India}}</ref><ref name=red>{{cite news |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/report/renowned-gujarati-novelist-ashwini-bhatt-no-more/20121210.htm |title=Renowned Gujarati novelist Ashwini Bhatt no more |work=Rediff News |location =India |date=10 December 2012}}</ref><ref name=dna>{{cite news|title=Ashwini Bhatt's novels brought youths back to fiction|date= 11 December 2012 | place=Ahmedabad | work= DNA|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/ahmedabad/report-ashwini-bhatts-novels-brought-youths-back-to-fiction-1776156|first=Priya|last=Adhyaru-Majethia}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
Bhatt wrote twelve novels and three novellas.<br />
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His serialized novels include ''Othaar'', ''Faanslo'', ''Aashka Maandal'', ''Katibandh'', ''Nirja Bhargav'', ''Lajja Sanyal'', ''Shailja Sagar'', ''Aayno'', ''Angaar'', ''Jalkapat'' and ''Aakhet''. Besides writing novels, he was also involved in theatre. His ''Katibandh'' was made into TV series.<ref name=toi/><ref name=red/><ref name=dna/><ref name="Kothari 2004">{{cite web | last=Kothari | first=Urvish | title=અશ્વિની ભટ્ટ સાથે એક સાંજ | website=gujarati world | date=1 March 2004 | url=http://urvishkothari-gujarati.blogspot.in/2009/06/blog-post_20.html | language=gu | accessdate=9 September 2015}}</ref> His novellas include ''Kasab'', ''Karamat'' and ''Kamthan''.<br />
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He translated several works in Gujarati including [[Alistair MacLean]] and [[James Hadley Chase]]. He also translated ''[[Freedom at Midnight]]'' by [[Larry Collins (writer)|Collins]] and [[Dominique Lapierre|Lapierre]] in Gujarati as ''Ardhi Rate Azadi'' which was critically acclaimed.<ref name=toi/><ref name=red/><ref name=dna/><br />
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''Akrosh Ane Akanksha'' is his essay collection.<br />
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He was also involved in [[Narmada Bachao Andolan]].<ref name=toi/><ref name=red/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Ashwini Bhatt |sopt=t}}<br />
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[[Category:1936 births]]<br />
[[Category:2012 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Gujarati-language writers]]<br />
[[Category:Translators to English]]<br />
[[Category:Indian male novelists]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian novelists]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Ahmedabad]]<br />
[[Category:Indian historical novelists]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian translators]]<br />
[[Category:Novelists from Gujarat]]<br />
[[Category:Indian thriller writers]]<br />
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