Dileep Manubhai Jhaveri (born 3 April 1943) is an Indian Gujarati-language poet, playwright, translator, editor and

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from

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, India. He is a recipient of the

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(2024).

Biography

Dileep Jhaveri was born on 3 April 1943 in Mumbai, India to Manubhai Jhaveri. He serves on the editorial board of ''Kobita Review'', a

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-based bilingual (Bengali and English) journal, and is '' Muse Indias contributing editor for Gujarati language.

Works

Jhaveri published a collection of Gujarati poetry entitled ''Pandukavyo ane Itar'' in 1989, followed by ''Khandit Kand ane Pachhi'' (2014) and ''Kavita Vishe Kavita'' (2017). ''Vyasochchvas'' (2003) is a play written by him, which was translated into English as ''A Breath of Vyas'' by Kamal Sanyal. Many of his poems have been anthologised and translated into English,

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, Bengali, Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Irish. He has edited an anthology of contemporary Gujarati poetry in English translation titled ''Breath Becoming a Word''. The poet Gabriel Rosenstock has translated his works into Irish.

Recognition

Jhaveri received the Critics Award in 1989, the Jayant Pathak Poetry Award in 1989 and the

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award in 1990. He was invited to the Asian Poets Conference in Korea in 1986 and Taiwan in 1995. He received the 2024

for his poetry collection ''Bhagwan ni Vato''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jhaveri, Dileep 1943 births Gujarati-language writers Living people Writers from Mumbai Poets from Maharashtra Medical doctors from Mumbai Indian male poets 20th-century Indian poets Indian magazine editors 20th-century Indian translators 20th-century Indian male writers Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Gujarati