Suresh Parshottamdas Dalal, (11 October 1932 – 10 August 2012) was a

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poet, essayist, litterateur and editor.

Life

Dalal was born on 11 October 1932 in

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to Purushottamdas and Bhanumati. He completed B.A. in Gujarati in 1953 from Saint Xavier's College; M.A. in 1955 and PhD in 1969 from

University of Mumbai The University of Mumbai is a collegiate, state-owned, public research university in Mumbai. The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. Ratan Tata is the appointed ...

. He taught at K. C. Arts College, Mumbai from 1956 to 1964. He also served as professor of Gujarati at Kirti College from 1958 to 1960 and at H.R. College of Commerce and Economics from 1960 to 1964. He joined K. J. Somaiya College in 1964 and headed the Gujarati Department. He later served as the Head of the Gujarati Department at

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; Vice-chancellor at

Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, formerly Baroda College, is a public university in the city of Vadodara, in Gujarat state, India. Originally established as a college in 1881, it became a university in 1949 after the independence of ...

; and a "National Lecturer" for the UGC. He has also been a member of the advisory board of Gujarati Sahitya Academy from 1983 to 1987. He was also the editor of the Gujarati poetry journal ''Kavita'' and literary quarterly ''Vivechana''. He died on 10 August 2012 at Mumbai following a heart attack.

Works

Poetry

His poetry collections include

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, long and prose-poems too. His poetry collections are ''Ekant'' (1966), ''Tarikh nu Ghar'' (1971), ''Astitva'' (1973), ''Naam Lakhi Dau'' (1975), ''Hastakshar'' (1977), ''Symphony'' (1977), ''Skyscraper'' (1980), ''Ek Anami Nadi'' (1982), ''Ghatana'' (1984), ''Bhura Akashni Asha''.

Awards

He received

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 ...

for Gujarati writers in 2005 for his poetry ''Akhand Zalar Vage''. He has been awarded with several other awards including the Gujarat Government Award 5 times. His Prose Poem has been translated into English by the

Poetry Translation Centre The Poetry Translation Centre (PTC) is an organization dedicated to translating poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America. It is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity. It was founded by the British poet Sarah Maguire in 2004. It ...

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