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{{Infobox writer
| name = Harish Meenashru
| image = Harish Meenashru at Dakor (cropped).jpg
| caption = at [[Dakor]], February 2017
| native_name = દવે હરીશ કૃષ્ણારામ
| native_name_lang = guj
| pseudonym = Harish Meenashru
| birth_name = Dave Harish Krishnaram
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|1|3|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Anand, Gujarat]], India
| occupation = Poet, translator, bank manager
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
| education = [[Master of Science]]
| alma_mater = [[Sardar Patel University]]
| period = Modern [[Gujarati literature]]
| genres = [[Ghazal]], [[Geet (song)|geet]], [[free verse]]
| movement =
| notableworks = * ''Dhribaangsundar Eni Pere Dolya'' (1988)
* ''Suno Bhai Sadho'' (1999)
* ''Tandul'' (1999)
* ''Banaras Diary'' (2016)
| spouse =Geeta
| children =Tirath,Amita,Saakhi,Ananya
| relatives =
| awards = * [[Takhtasinh Parmar Prize]] (1988–89)
* [[Kalapi Award]] (2010)
* [[Vali Gujarati Gazal Award]] (2012)
* [[Narsinh Mehta Award]] (2014)
* [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] (2020)
| signature =Harish Meenashru autograph.svg
| years_active =
}}

'''Harish Krishnaram Dave''' ([[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]: હરીશ કૃષ્ણારામ દવે), better known by his pen name '''Harish Meenashru''' (Gujarati: હરીશ મીનાશ્રુ), is a [[Gujarati language]] poet and translator from [[Gujarat]], India.<ref name="Dutt 2016">{{cite web | last=Dutt | first=Kartik Chandra | title=Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M | website=Google Books | date=2016-07-18 | url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Who_s_who_of_Indian_Writers_1999_A_M.html?id=QA1V7sICaIwC | access-date=2016-07-21}}</ref> He is best known as a postmodern poet in [[Gujarati literature]]. Some of his significant works include ''Dhribaangsundar Eni Pere Dolya'' (1988), ''Suno Bhai Sadho'' (1999), ''Tandul'' (1999), ''Parjanyasukta'' (1999), and ''Banaras Diary'' (2016). His poems have been translated in [[Hindi]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Malayalam]], [[Kannada]], [[German language|German]], and English. He received a [[Kalapi Award]] (2010), [[Vali Gujarati Gazal Award]] (2012), and [[Narsinh Mehta Award]] (2014).<ref name="Poets - Goethe-Institut">{{cite web | title=Poets translating Poets | website=Poets - Goethe-Institut | url=http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/lp/prj/ptp/dic/en14926842.htm | language=la | access-date=2016-07-21}}</ref> He received the 2020 [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for his poetry collection ''Banaras Diary'' (2016).<ref>{{Cite magazine |magazine=[[Dalitchetna]] |editor-last=Parmar |editor-first=Manoj |script-title=gu:કવિ શ્રી હરીશ મિનાશ્રુને કાવ્યસંગ્રહ 'બનારસ ડાયરી' માટે કેન્દ્રીય સાહિત્ય અકાદમી એવોર્ડ |trans-title=Sahitya Akademi Award to Harish Meenashru for His Poetry Collection 'Banaras Diary' |date=April 2021 |volume=15 |issue=6 |pages=36, 21 |issn=2319-7862 |language=gu}}</ref>

== Life ==
Meenashru was born on 3 January 1953 in [[Anand, Gujarat]], India. He studied at Dadabhai Navroji (DN) High School, Anand, from 1962 to 1969. He earned a [[B. Sc.]] in Chemistry from V. P. Science College, [[Vallabh Vidhyanagar]] from 1969 to 1970, and M. B.{{clarify|date=August 2018}} at Patel Science College, Anand, from 1970 to 1973. He received a [[Master of Science|M. Sc.]] from the Department of Chemistry of the [[Sardar Patel University]] in 1975.<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=130–131|language=gu|isbn=978-93-5108-247-7}}</ref>

Meenashru started his career recruited by the [[Bank of Baroda]] in March 1977.<ref name=AGSI/> He headed a few branches of this bank and retired voluntarily in March 2001 as a senior manager of Amul Dairy Road branch, Anand.<ref name="rs">{{cite book |last=Shukla |first=Kirit |year=2008 |title=Gujarati Sahityakosh |location=Gandhinagar |publisher=Gujarat Sahitya Akadami |isbn=9789383317028 }}</ref>

He married Geeta Dave on 30 May 1977. Their son, Tirath, was born in 1979.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} He lives in [[Bakrol]] village, Anand.<ref name="Poets - Goethe-Institut" />

== Works ==
Meenashru wrote his first poem in fifth standard. In 1974, his poem, ''Chadiyanu Dukaalgeet'', was first published in ''Nootan Shikshan'', a magazine edited by [[Gunvant Shah]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Meenashru |first=Harish |date=December 2011 |title=An article about his creative journey by poet |magazine=[[Shabdasrishti]] |editor1-last= Trivedi |editor1-first= Harshad |editor1-link=Harshad Trivedi |location=Gandhinagar |publisher= Gujarat Sahitya Akademi |issn=2319-3220 }}</ref>

''Dhribaangsundar Eni Pere Dolya'', his first anthology of poems, was published in 1988, followed by ''Tambul'' (1999), ''Tandul'' (1999), ''Parjanyasukta'' (1999), ''Suno Bhai Sadho'' (1999), ''Pad Pranjali'' (2004), ''Pankhipadarath'' (2011), ''Shabadman Jinkun Khas Khabaran Padi,'' (2011), and ''Banaras Diary'' (2016).

''Nakhasikh'' (1977), a compilation of selected modern Gujarati ''[[ghazal]]s'', and ''Shesh-Vishesh'' (1984) are two of his compilations.<ref name="AGSI" /> Some of his poems have been edited and translated into English by Piyush Joshi as ''A Tree with a Thousand Wings'' (2008).<ref name="A Tree with a Thousand Wings">{{cite web | title=Welcome to Muse India | website=Ambika Ananth – ‘A Tree with a Thousand Wings’ | url=http://www.museindia.com/viewarticle.asp?myr=2009&issid=25&id=1559 | access-date=2016-07-23}}</ref>

He has also translated world poetry. He has translated into Gujarati the poems of eighth-century Chinese poet [[Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)|Wang Wei]] and [[Nicaraguans|Nicaraguan]] poet [[Pablo Antonio Cuadra]]. Some of the translated poems are published as ''Deshatan'' (Translations of World Poetry) and ''Hampinā Khadako'' (2014; translation of poetry of Kannada poet, [[Chandrashekhara Kambara]]).<ref name="rs" />

==Criticism==
[[Dileep Jhaveri]] praised him in ''Muse India'' (Issue 68: Jul–Aug 2016): {{blockquote|text=Harish Minashru is an important name because of his constant preoccupation in exploring several possibilities of language by way of musicality, associations and multiple combinations of words or their fragments uniting into surprisingly new words. This creates new challenges for the meanings and poetic intentions. His basic support is minute observations of objects and phenomena along with mastery over Sanskrit, medieval and modern verse forms. He does not hesitate to take risk of anarchy while ascertaining individuality. This is the fundamental function of poetry.<ref name="Welcome to Muse India">{{cite web | title=Muse India | website=Muse India | url=http://museindia.com/focuscontent.asp?issid=59&id=5412 | access-date=2016-07-21 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820014728/http://museindia.com/focuscontent.asp?issid=59&id=5412 | archive-date=20 August 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref>}}

== Awards and recognitions ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Award
!Conferred by
|-
|2020
|[[Sahitya Akademi Award]]
|[[Sahitya Akademi]]
|-
|-
|2017
|[[Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize]]<ref>https://www.indiaculture.nic.in/sites/default/files/press_release/Press%20ReleaseTP_21.12.2017.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>
|[[Sahitya Akademi]]
|-
|2014
|[[Narsinh Mehta Award]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.goethe.de/ins/in/lp/prj/ptp/dic/en14926842.htm|title=Poets translating Poets - Poets - Goethe-Institut|website=www.goethe.de|language=en|access-date=2018-11-01}}</ref>
|
|-
|2012
|[[Vali Gujarati Gazal Award]]<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/poet-harish-minashru-gets-vali-award/|title=Poet Harish Minashru gets Vali award|date=2013-07-24|work=The Indian Express|access-date=2018-11-01|language=en-US}}</ref>
|[[Gujarat Sahitya Akademi]]
|-
|2010
|[[Kalapi Award]]
|[[Indian National Theatre]]
|-
|1988–89
|[[Takhtasinh Parmar Prize]]
| [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]
|}

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

== References ==
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==External links==
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[[Category:People from Anand district]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation]]

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