Dhiruben Patel
| Dhiruben Patel | |
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| Born | May 25, 1926 Vadodara, Baroda State, British Raj |
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| Language | Gujarati |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Ethnicity | Indian |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Notable works | Agantuk |
| Notable awards | Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati |
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Dhiruben Gordhanbhai Patel, (Gujarati: ધીરુબેન પટેલ Hindi: धीरुबेन पटेल); born May 25, 1926 in Vadodara),[1] is a Gujarati novelist, playwright, and translator who won the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for her novel Agantuk.[1][2]
She is a former President of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad and one of her plays, Bhavni Bhavai, has been turned into a film.[3]
Early Life
Dhiruben Gordhanbhai Patel was born in 1926 to Gordhanbhai Patel, a journalist with the Bombay Chronicle, and Gangaben Patel, a political activist and member of the All India Congress Committee. Although born in Vadodara in Gujarat, she grew up and still resides in Santacruz, a suburb of Mumbai. She was educated at the Poddar school in Mumbai, and later taught English literature at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.[4]
From 1966 to 1975, she edited Sudha, a Gujarati journal. Subsequently, she founded Kali Prakashan, a publishing house.[5] She later served as the President of the Gujarat Sahitya Sabha.[3]
Works
Overview
Dhiruben Patel is the author of several collections of short stories and poetry, as well as novels. She has written plays for performance on stage and on radio. Her work is deeply influenced by Gandhian ideals. Critics Susie Tharu and Ke Lalita have written that "Although Dhiruben does not consider herself a feminist, like the novelist Kundanika Kapadia, she believes that the root cause of women's inferior status lies in their own mental conditioning." [5] Her early work, in particular, deals with the lives of women and their relationships, and what Tharu and Lalita have also described as the "quest for selfhood".[5] Her later work has been primarily for children and young adults, and she has spoken about writing to reach children through books despite the easy availability of information on the internet.[6]
Dhiruben Patel's early writing was in Gujarati. Her novel, Agantuk won the Sahitya Akademi award in 2001, for writing in Gujarati. This was translated by Raj Supe into English, as Rainbow at Noon in 2011. In an interview, Patel said she agreed to let Supe translate it because ".. he would understand my hero and his struggles as he has travelled the same path.”[7] A recent collection of poetry, Kitchen Poems is in English, and was first recited by her at the Neemrana Literary Festival in 2002. These were later published and translated into German, by Peter D O'Neil, and into Marathi, by Usha Mehta.[8]
Partial Bibliography
- (1957) Pahelun Inam (play)
- (1961) Namani Nagarvel (play)
- (1963) Vadavanal (novel)
- (1966) Vishrambhakatha (short stories)
- (1967) Vasno Ankur (novel)
- (1993) Hutashan (novel)
- (1995) Mayapurush (collection of radio plays)
- (1998) Sanshaybij (novel)
- (2000) Agantuk (Rainbow at Noon, novel)
- (2000) Atitrag (novel)
- (2001) Javal (short stories)
- (2002) Kishor Varta Sangrah
- (2009) Ek Lahar
- (2009) Adhuro Call
- (2011) Kitchen Poems
References
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- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Gujarati – List of Gujarati language writers who have won the Sahitya Akademi Award.
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| Preceded by | Recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Gujarati 2001 |
Succeeded by Dhruv Prabodhrai Bhatt |
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