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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1932|08|16}}
| birth_place = Koliyak village, [[British India]] (now [[Bhavnagar district]], [[Gujarat]], India)
| occupation = Poet, critic, translator
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| education = M.A., Ph. D.
| alma_mater = [[SNDT Women's University]]
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| doctoral_advisor = [[Ansuya Trivedi|Ansuya B. Trivedi]]
| thesis_title = Humour in Gujarati Poetry and Drama upto 19th-century with Special Reference to Akho, Premanand, Shamal, Dalpatram and Navalram
| thesis_url = http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/193707
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'''Jaya Vallabhdas Mehta''' is a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] poet, critic and translator from [[Gujarat]], India. She was educated and later worked at [[SNDT Women's University]].

==Life==
Jaya Mehta was born on 16 August 1932 at Koliyak village near [[Bhavnagar]] (now in [[Bhavnagar district]], Gujarat, India) to Lalitaben and Vallabhdas. She completed P. T. C. and started working as a school teacher.<ref name="TharuLalita1991">{{cite book|author1=Susie J. Tharu|author2=Ke Lalita|title=Women Writing in India: The twentieth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OjZYf9Xf9bcC&pg=PA365|year=1991|publisher=Feminist Press at CUNY|isbn=978-1-55861-029-3|pages=365–366}}</ref> She continued her studies and completed her B. A. in 1954 and her M. A. in 1963 from [[SNDT Women's University]], [[Mumbai]].<ref name="Jani 2018">{{Cite news|url=https://sureshbjani.wordpress.com/2006/08/13/jaya_mehta/|title=જયા મહેતા|last=Jani|first=Suresh B.|date=2006-08-13|work=ગુજરાતી પ્રતિભા પરિચય|access-date=2018-02-26|language=gu-IN}}</ref> She later received her Ph. D. . She served as a professor of Gujarati at SNDT Women's University and retired from there. She was a co-editor of ''Sudha'' (weekly of Saurashtra Trust) and ''Vivechan'' (trimonthly of Department of Gujarati, SNDT Women's University).<ref name="AGSI">{{cite book|title=અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઈતિહાસ - આધુનિક અને અનુઆધુનિક યુગ|last=Brahmabhatt|first=Prasad|publisher=Parshwa Publication|year=2010|isbn=978-93-5108-247-7|location=Ahmedabad|pages=141–142|language=gu|trans-title=History of Modern Gujarati Literature – Modern and Postmodern Era}}</ref> She wrote columns in ''Pravasi'', [[Bombay Samachar|''Mumbai Samachar'']] and ''Samkalin'' dailies.<ref name="Jani 2018" />

==Works==
Jaya Mehta writes [[rationalist]] poetry in free verse. Her poetry is logical and socially aware instead of enclosed in emotional world.<ref name="NatarajanNelson1996">{{cite book|author1=Nalini Natarajan|author2=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA125|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28778-7|page=125}}</ref> Her poetry collections are ''Venetian Blind'' (1978), ''Ek Divas'' (1982), ''Akashma Tarao Choop Chhe'' (1985), ''Hospital Peoms'' (1987). ''Renu'' and ''Ek Aa Khare Pandadu'' (1989) are her novels.<ref name="AGSI"/><ref name="Jani 2018" /> ''Venetian Blind'' and ''Akashma Tarao Chhup Chhe'' reflects her "concern for the human predicament".<ref name="NatarajanNelson1996"/> ''Manogat'' (1980), ''Kavyazankhi'' (1985), ''Ane Anusandhan'' (1986), ''Bookshelf'' (1991) are her works of criticism. She has edited ''Kavi Priy Kavita'' (1976), ''Varta Vishwa'' (co-edited, 1980), ''Suresh Dalalna Shreshth Kavyo'' (1985), ''Apna Shresth Nibandho'' (1991), ''Raghupati Raghav Rajaram'' (2007). Her research works include ''Gujarati Kavita Ane Natakma Hasyavinod'', ''Gujaratna Prashsti Kavyo'' (1965), ''Gujarati Lekhikaoe Navalkatha-Varta Sahityama Alekhelu Streenu Chitra''. ''Vimanthi Wheelchair'' is her travelogue.<ref name="AGSI"/>

She has translated several works. ''Mara Mitro'' (1969), ''Arati Prabhu'' (1978), ''Mannu Karan'' (1978), ''Churchbell'' (1980), ''Chani'' (1981), ''Ravindranath: Tran Vyakhyano'', ''Saundaryamimansa'' (co-translated), ''Champo Ane Himpushpa'', ''Samudrayalni Prachand Garjana'', ''Revenue Stamp'' (Autobiography of [[Amrita Pritam]], 1983), ''Dastavej'' (1985), ''Suvarna Mudra Ane...'' (1991). ''Radha, Kunti, Draupadi'' (2001), ''Vyasmudra'' are her translations.<ref name="AGSI"/><ref name="Jani 2018" /> She also translated [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s ''[[The Old Man and the Sea]]'' into Gujarati.

She translated [[S L Bhyrappa]]'s novel ''[[Daatu]]'' into Gujarati in 1992.<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 has been awarded by [[Sahitya Akademi]], [[Delhi]] for her translations.<ref name="AGSI"/>

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

==References==
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