Suresh Joshi

Suresh Hariprasad Joshi ( gu, સુરેશ હરિપ્રસાદ જોષી) was an Indian novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, translator, editor and academic in the Gujarati language. Along with his teaching career, he led the modernist movement in Gujarati literature. He was prolific writer and he transformed the field of literary criticism.

Life

He was born in Valod, a small town near Bardoli in South Gujarat on 30 May 1921. He did his schooling from Songadh and Gangadhara. He matriculated from Navsari in 1938. He completed his BA in 1943 and MA from Elphinstone College in 1945. In the same year, he started teaching at D. J. Singh College in Karachi and later joined Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar in 1947. From 1951, he served as a lecturer, professor and later as Head of the Gujarati Department at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara till his retirement in 1981.

His early life was spent at Songadh which influenced his life. At the age of eight, he secretly published his poem in ''Baljeevan'' magazine. He edited ''Falguni'' magazine in his college life. ''Upjati'' (1956) was his first published work. He had also edited ''Manisha'', ''Kshitij'', ''Etad'' and ''Uhapoh'' magazines.

He died on 6 September 1986 due to kidney failure at Nadiad.

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