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| name = Mahendrasinh Parmar<br />
| image = Mahendrasinh Parmar Gujarati writer (cropped).png<br />
| caption = Mahendrasinh Parmar At [[Gujarat Literature Festival]] December 2016<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1967|10|2}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Naliya]], [[Kutch district]], [[Gujarat]]<br />
| occupation = writer, playwright<br />
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| education = * Master of Arts<br />
* Ph.D.<br />
| alma_mater = [[Bhavnagar University]]<br />
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| genres = short story, play<br />
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| doctoral_advisor = [[Vinod Joshi]]<br />
| thesis_title= ''Kishansinh Chavda: A Literary {{sic|Gen|ious|nolink=y}}''<br />
| thesis_url= http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/90698<br />
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'''Mahendrasinh Parmar''' is a Gujarati writer and professor from [[Gujarat]], India. His works include ''Polytechnic'' (2016) and ''Rakhdu no Kagal'' (2016). He has also written plays.<br />
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== Life ==<br />
He was born on 2 October 1967 in [[Naliya]], a town in [[Kutch district]] of Gujarat.<ref name="Hariyani 2016">{{cite web | last=Hariyani | first=Vaidehi | title=Analysis of short story "Udancharkaldi" by Mahendrasinh Parmar with help of Cultural Studies. | website=Vaidehi's Assignments 2015-2017 | date=2016-03-17 | url=http://vaidehi09hariyani.blogspot.com/2016/03/analysis-of-short-story-udancharkaldi.html | access-date=2017-01-17}}</ref><br />
He completed his Master of Arts in [[Gujarati literature]] from [[Bhavnagar University]] and received Ph.D. from same university in 1998.<ref name="Muse India Issue 70">{{cite journal|title=Introduction of writer Mahendrasinh Parmar|url=http://www.museindia.com/authprofile.asp?id=796|journal=Muse India|access-date=2017-01-17|issn=0975-1815|archive-date=2017-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118050710/http://www.museindia.com/authprofile.asp?id=796|url-status=dead}}</ref> He serves as professor at Bhavnagar University since 1996.<ref name="M K Bhavnagar University Official Website">{{cite web | title=M K Bhavnagar University Official Website | website=M K Bhavnagar University Official Website | url=http://www.mkbhavuni.edu.in/mkbhavuniweb/gujarati-dept-mahendra-parmar.php | access-date=2017-01-17}}</ref><br />
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He married in 1996 and has two daughters. He lives in Bhavnagar.<ref name="Muse India Issue 70"/><br />
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== Works ==<br />
Since 2002, his short stories appeared in various collections of Gujarati short stories. He has done numerous shows of public reading of literary works under the title ''Vachikam''.<ref name="Muse India Issue 70"/><br />
His critical works were published as ''Pratham'' in 2009. ''Polytechnic'' (2016) is a short story collection while ''Rakhdu no Kagal'' (2016) is a collection of his personal essays. He wrote several plays.<ref name="Hariyani 2016"/><br />
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==Awards==<br />
His book ''Polytechnic'' (2016) was shortlisted for the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] (2020).<ref>{{cite web |title=Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 |date=12 March 2021 |website=Sahitya Akademi |url=http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/pdf/sahityaakademiawards2020.pdf|access-date=13 March 2021|archive-date=13 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313015040/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/pdf/sahityaakademiawards2020.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2015/10/postcards-in-digital-age.html Translation of Parmar's short story ''Postcard Jetli (j) Varta'']<br />
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