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{{Infobox writer
| name = Hariprasad Vyas
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| birth_name = Hariprasad Maniray Vyas
| birth_date = {{birth date|1904|5|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bodka, [[Vadodara]], [[Gujarat]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1980|7|13|1904|5|25|df=y}}
| death_place = [[San Jose, California]], US.
| occupation = humourist, [[Children's literature in Gujarati language|children's writer]]
| education = [[matriculation]]
| period =
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
| nationality = Indian
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'''Hariprasad Maniray Vyas''' (25 May 1904 – 13 July 1980) was a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] humorist and author of [[Children's literature]].<ref name="Dasgupta1995">{{cite book|author=Amit Dasgupta|title=Telling Tales: Children's Literature in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=53nMJAyOnwkC&pg=PA38|date=1 January 1995|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-81-224-0748-8|page=38}}</ref>

==Life==
Hariprasad Vyas was born on 25 May 1904 in Bodka village near [[Vadodara]], [[Gujarat]]. He passed [[matriculation]] in 1921 in Vadodara. He served as Manager in the office of Zenith Life and General Insurance from 1925 to his retirement. He died on 13 July 1980 in [[San Jose, California]], US.<ref name="sbj2012">{{cite web | author=Suresh Jani | title=વ્યાસ હરિપ્રસાદ મણિરાય, Vyas Hariprasad Maniray | website=ગુજરાતી પ્રતિભા પરિચય | date=16 October 2012 | url=https://sureshbjani.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/vyas-hariprasad/ | language=gu | accessdate=22 September 2015}}</ref>

==Works==
Hariprasad Vyas created several popular fictional characters for children's literature in Gujarati language including [[Bakor Patel]],<ref name="Hunt2003">{{cite book|author=Peter Hunt|title=International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7doBUwzbWh4C&pg=PA802|date=2 September 2003|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-87993-9|page=802}}</ref> Shakri Patlani, Vaghjibhai Vakil, Untadiya Doctor, Hathishankar Dhamdhamiya, Bhotvashankar.<ref name="bkp">{{cite book|title=The Indian P.E.N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lrhPAQAAIAAJ|year=1955|page=399}}</ref> He wrote humorous stories of Bakor Patel in children's biweekly ''Gandiv'' published by Gandiv Sahitya Madir, [[Surat]] from 1936 to 1955.<ref name="Kothari 2004">{{cite web | last=Kothari | first=Urvish | title=બકોર પટેલ : એકવીસમી સદીમાં | website=gujarati world | date=1 March 2004 | url=http://urvishkothari-gujarati.blogspot.in/2014/10/blog-post_26.html | language=gu | accessdate=22 September 2015}}</ref> These stories are later published as story collections. His works include Bakor Patel (30 works), Bhejabaj Bhagabhai (6 works), Hathishankar Dhamdhamiya (6 books), Bhotvashankarna Parakramo, Sundar Sundar (6 works), Balvinod, Hasyavinod, Anandvinod. He also published ten collections of children's plays under ''Chalo Bhajavie'' series. He also wrote several humorous essays collected under various titles; ''Hasyazarna'', ''Hasyakillol'', ''Hasyavasant'', ''Kathahasya'', ''Patnini Shodhama'', ''Andhale Behru'', ''Pothimana Ringana''.<ref name="sbj2012"/>

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

==References==
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[[Category:Indian children's writers]]
[[Category:Gujarati-language writers]]
[[Category:People from Vadodara district]]
[[Category:1904 births]]
[[Category:1980 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian humorists]]
[[Category:Novelists from Gujarat]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian novelists]]

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