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.
Life
He was born on 2 October 1967 in Naliya, a town in Kutch district of Gujarat.[1] He completed his Master of Arts in Gujarati literature from Bhavnagar University and received Ph.D. from same university in 1998.[2] He serves as professor at Bhavnagar University since 1996.[3]
He married in 1996 and has two daughters. He lives in Bhavnagar.[2]
Works
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.[2] 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.[1]
Awards
His book Polytechnic (2016) was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Award (2020).[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Analysis of short story "Udancharkaldi" by Mahendrasinh Parmar with help of Cultural Studies., Hariyani, Vaidehi. Vaidehi's Assignments 2015-2017(2016-03-17). Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Introduction of writer Mahendrasinh Parmar. Muse India.
- ↑ M K Bhavnagar University Official Website. M K Bhavnagar University Official Website. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
- ↑ Sahitya Akademi Award 2020. Sahitya Akademi(12 March 2021). Retrieved 13 March 2021.