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'''Jayant Parmar''' (born 11 October 1954) is an [[India]]n Urdu language poet known for raising [[Dalit]] issues in his poetry.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/lr/2008/08/03/stories/2008080350200500.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080812173713/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2008/08/03/stories/2008080350200500.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-08-12|title= New Terrains |date=2008-08-03|author=Shafey Kidwai|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=2010-02-14}}</ref><br />
Parmar was born in a poor family. At a young age, he began to paint miniature paintings for a frame maker. Parmar realized that the frame maker had a separate pot for him because he was Dalit. This saddened Parmar and he quit.<ref name="VOA">{{cite news|url=http://www1.voanews.com/urdu/news/a-25-2009-04-14-voa32.html|title=''Jayant Parmar ke liye Urdu ka Sahitya Akademi Enam''|publisher=[[Voice of America]]|date=2009-04-14|accessdate=03-09-2010|language=ur}}</ref><ref name="Kid0902">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/02/13/stories/2009021350130300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604120741/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2009/02/13/stories/2009021350130300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-06-04|title= Making sense out of nonsense |date=2009-02-13|author=M. Shafey Kidwai|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=2010-02-14}}</ref><br />
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Parmar taught himself Urdu from a language learning guide at age 30 after he developed an appreciation for [[Urdu poetry]] while living in a Muslim-dominated area in the walled city area of [[Ahmedabad]].<ref name="Kid0902" /><br />
He has published a number of poetry collections: ''Aur'' in 1998, ''Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein'' in 2006, ''Manind'' in 2008, ''Antaral'' in 2010 and ''Giacometti ke sapne'' in 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title= Jayant Parmer Chosen For Sahitya Academy Urdu Award|date=2008-12-24|accessdate=2010-02-03|url=http://hindtoday.com/Blogs/ViewBlogsV2.aspx?HTAdvtId=2956&HTAdvtPlaceCode=IND|publisher=hindtoday.com}}</ref> Parmar won the 2008 [[Sahitya Akademi Award to Urdu Writers|Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu]] for ''Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein''. His work has been translated into Kashmiri, Punjabi, Hindi, Marathi, Bangla, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya and Slovenian.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/24/stories/2008122461351300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125003410/http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/24/stories/2008122461351300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-25|title=Sahitya Akademi awards for 7 novelists |date=2008-12-24|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=2010-02-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The hell-pit that is caste|url=https://www.firstpost.com/long-reads/the-hell-pit-that-is-caste-3898401.html| accessdate=January 7, 2020|publisher=Firstpost}}</ref><br />
<ref>{{Cite press release|title = Poets dominate 2009 Sahitya Akademi Awards|publisher = [[Sahitya Akademi]]|date = 2009-12-23|url = http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/Sahitya%20Akademi%20Award2009.pdf|accessdate = 2010-02-03}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Urdu-language poets from India]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Ahmedabad]]<br />
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[[Category:1954 births]]<br />
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