Shirish Panchal

Shirish Panchal
at his home in Vadodara, December 2017
at his home in Vadodara, December 2017
BornShirish Jagjivandas Panchal
(1943-03-07) 7 March 1943 (age 81)
Vadodara, Baroda State, British Raj
OccupationCritic, Editor
LanguageGujarati
NationalityIndian
Notable worksVaat Aapanaa Vivechanni
Notable awardsSahitya Academy Award
Signature
Academic background
ThesisKavyavivechan Ni Samasyao (1979)
Doctoral advisorSuresh Joshi
Academic work
Doctoral studentsSharifa Vijaliwala

Shirish Jagjivandas Panchal (born 7 March 1943)[1] is a Gujarati critic, fiction writer, translator and editor. He won the 2009 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his criticism Vaat Aapanaa Vivechan-ni.[1][2] He refused the award.[3]

  1. ^ a b Topiwala, Chandrakant. "સાહિત્યસર્જક: શિરિષ પંચાલ" [Writer: Shirish Panchal] (in Gujarati). Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.
  2. ^ "Poets dominate 2009 Sahitya Akademi Awards". The Hindu. Ahmedabad. 24 December 2009. Archived from the original on 27 December 2009.
  3. ^ "'Will returning award help?'". Ahmedabad Mirror. 13 October 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2021.