Suman Shah

Suman Shah
Suman Shah at Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in August 2015
Native name	સુમનચન્દ્ર ગોવીંદલાલ શાહ
Born	Sumanchandra Govindalal Shah (1939-11-01) 1 November 1939 (age 85) Dabhoi, Vadodara, Gujarat
Occupation	Critic, short story writer, novelist, essayist, Editor, translator
Language	Gujarati
Nationality	Indian
Education	Master of Arts Ph.D
Alma mater	M.S University, Vadodara Gujarat Vidyapith
Period	postmodern Gujarati literature
Genres	Short story, Novel, Essay, Criticism
Literary movement	Existentialism, Surrealism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Postcolonialism
Years active	1957 - present
Notable works	Suresh Joshi thi Suresh Joshi (1978) Khadaki (1987) Sahityaman Adhunikata (1988) Bajbaji (1989) Avarshunkelub (1992) Jenti-Hansa Symphony (1992) Fatfatiyun (2006)
Notable awards	Sahitya Akademi Award (2008) Premanand Suvarna Chandrak (2013) Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar (2014)
Spouse	Rashmita ​ ​ (m. 1965; died 2016)​
Children	Purvarag, Madir
Signature
Academic background
Thesis	Suresh Joshi: His Literature and its Impact upon Modern Gujarati Literature (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Mohanbhai Patel
Website
Official website

Suman Shah (Gujarati:સુમન શાહ) is a Gujarati language critic, short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor and translator from Gujarat, India. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2008 for his short story collection Fatfatiyun. He has written both in the modern and in the postmodern eras in Gujarati literature. He has authored more than 74 books, including 2 novels, 6 short story collections, 4 collections of creative essays, 6 translations into Gujarati from English and Hindi, 22 books on literary criticism and around 23 edited works of literary theory and modern Gujarati short stories and poems. He was honorary editor of Shabdasrishti from 1983 to 1986 and an editor of Khevna, a literary journal, from 1987 to 2009.^[1]