Mahendrasinh Parmar
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Mahendrasinh Parmar is a Gujarati writer and professor from
Gujarat Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories ...
, 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 Naliya is a town, which is also the taluka headquarters of Abdasa Taluka of Kutch District (kachchh), Gujarat, India. It is located on the western end of Kutch 19 km by road from ancient port of Jakhau. History Naliya was a prosperous tr ...
, a town in
Kutch district Kutch district (), officially spelled Kachchh is a district of Gujarat state in western India, with its headquarters (capital) at Bhuj. Covering an area of 45,674 km2, it is the largest district of India. The area of Kutch is larger than ...
of Gujarat. He completed his Master of Arts in
Gujarati literature The history of Gujarat, Gujarati literature () may be traced to 1000 AD, and this literature has flourished since then to the present. It is unique in having almost no patronage from a ruling dynasty, other than its composers. Gujarat Vidhya S ...
from
Bhavnagar University Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, formerly Bhavnagar University or MKBU is a state university located in Bhavnagar city in the state of Gujarat in India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South ...
and received Ph.D. from same university in 1998. He serves as professor at Bhavnagar University since 1996. He married in 1996 and has two daughters. He lives in Bhavnagar.


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''. 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.


Awards

His book ''Polytechnic'' (2016) was shortlisted for the
Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...
(2020).


References


External links

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Translation of Parmar's short story ''Postcard Jetli (j) Varta''
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