Dileep Jhaveri

Dileep Jhaveri
Native name દિલીપ મનુભાઈ ઝવેરી
Born Dileep Manubhai Jhaveri
(1943-04-03) 3 April 1943
Mumbai, India
Occupation Poet, playwright, translator, editor, physician
Language Gujarati
Nationality Indian
Education MBBS
Alma mater Savitribai Phule Pune University
Notable awards
  • Critics Award (1989)
  • Jayant Pathak Poetry Award (1989)

Dileep Manubhai Jhaveri (Gujarati: દિલીપ મનુભાઈ ઝવેરી) is a Gujarati language poet, translator, playwright, editor and physician from Mumbai, India.

Life

He was born on 3 April 1943 in Mumbai, India[1] to Manubhai Jhaveri. He is a general physician by profession. He serves on the editorial board of Kobita Review, a Kolkata-based bilingual (Bengali and English) journal, and is Muse India's contributing editor for Gujarati language.[2]

Works

He 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 subsequently been translated into English as A Breath of Vyas by Kamal Sanyal. Many of his poems have been anthologised, and been translated into English, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali, Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Irish. He has edited an anthology of contemporary Gujarati poetry in English translation as Breath Becoming a Word.[2] The eminent poet Gabriel Rosenstock has translated his works into Irish.[3][4]

Recognition

His received the Critics Award in 1989, the Jayant Pathak Poetry Award in 1989 and the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad award in 1990. He was invited to the Asian Poets Conference in Korea in 1986 and Taiwan in 1995, he has also recited his poems in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the USA.[5][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Who's Who of Indian Writers". Sahitya Akademi. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
  2. 1 2 "Dileep Jhaveri (poet) - India". Poetry International. 2010-05-01. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
  3. ↑ "Welcome to Muse India". Muse India. ISSN 0975-1815. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
  4. 1 2 Kartik Chandra Dutt (1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 519. ISBN 978-81-260-0873-5. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Dileep Jhaveri - Ποιειν Και Πραττειν". create and do. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
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