Hasu Yajnik

Hasmukhray Vrajlal Yajnik (born 12 February 1938), better known as Hasu Yajnik, also spelled Hasu Yagnik is a Gujarati novelist, short story writer, critic, editor, folklorist and children's writer from Gujarat, India.

Hasu Yajnik
Hasu Yajnik in November 2018 at Amdavad National Book Fair
BornHasmukhray Vrajlal Yajnik
(1938-02-12) 12 February 1938
Rajkot, Rajkot State (now Gujarat, India)
Pen nameUpamanyu, Pushpadhanva, B. Kashyap, Vajranandan Jani and Shridhar
OccupationNovelist, short story writer, critic, editor, folklorist, children's writer
LanguageGujarati
NationalityIndian

Life

Yagnik was born on 12 February 1938 in Rajkot (now in Gujarat). He completed his primary and secondary school education from Rajkot. He completed BA in 1960 and MA in Gujarati-Sanskrit in 1962. He received PhD for his thesis on Madhyakalin Gujarati Kamkatha in 1972.[1]

He served as a professor of Gujarati in government colleges in Surendranagar, Visnagar, Ahmedabad and Jamnagar from 1963 to 1982. He served as the registrar of the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, Gandhinagar from 1982 to 1996.[1][2] He is a managing trustee of the Meghani Lokvidya Sanshodhan Bhavan, Ahmedabad.[1]

Works

Yajnik has written under various pen names: Upamanyu, Pushpadhanva, B. Kashyap, Vajranandan Jani and Shridhar. He has written twenty novels, three short story collections, two jail stories, four medieval stories, criticism of four medieval works, edited twelve folk works and six works of children's literature.[1]

His populist novels with simple theme and language include Dagdha (1968), Highway Par Ek Rat (1981), Biji Savarno Sooraj (1982), Sol Pachhi (1986), Neera Kausani (1987). Diwal Pachhalni Duniya is a semi-fictionalised collection of 28 true stories.[1] Mandani Maya (1985), Ek Jubanimanthi (1985) and Pachhitna Paththaro (1985) are his short story collections.[1]

Madhyakalin Gujarati Premkatha (1974), Madhyakalin Kathasahitya (1987), Shamal (1978, on Shamal Bhatt) and Sanskrit Kathasahitya (1997) are his research works. Kamkatha (1987) includes stories of Gujarati females from medieval Sanskrit Prakrit works while Kamkatha:Suda Bahontari (1987) has stories of females characters.[1]

Futati Pankhono Pahelo Fafadat (1972) is co-edited him. Gujarati Lokkathao (1996), Saurabh Vratkathao (1996), Saurabh Navrat Garba (1996), Saurabh Lagnageet Sangrah (1999), Saurabh Padabhajanavali (1999), Lagnollas (2001) are folk literature collections edited by him.[1]

He has notated traditional devotional songs edited by Harivallabh Bhayani in Hari Ven Vay Chhe Re Ho Vanma (1988). He has also notated Gokulma Tahukya Mor (1989) and Jharmar Meh Jhabooke Veej (1989).[1][3]

He has also written some works on music: Violin-vadan (1992), Ragdarshan (1993), Harmonium-vadan (1997), Bansari-vadan (1998). His Krishnacharit and Ramkatha are translated in Marathi, Odia and Hindi.[1]

Awards

Yajnik has received silver medal for his short stories in 1954. His Diwal Pachhalni Duniya received prize from the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. He also received an award from the Skylark, London (1994) and a fellowship from Gujarati Sahitya Academy, London (1997). He also received the first prize from the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi for his work Gujaratni Lokvidya.[1]

See also

References
  1. Kanijiya, Baldevbhai (April 2003). Thaker, Dhirubhai (ed.). ગુજરાતી વિશ્વકોશ [Gujarati Encyclopaedia] (in Gujarati). XVII. Ahmedabad: Gujarati Vishwakosh Trust, Ahmedabad. pp. 77–78. OCLC 551875907.
  2. Bardi, Pietro (2002). Indian Folklore Research Journal. National Folklore Support Centre. p. 78.
  3. Thaker, Dhirubhai (1999). Glimpses of Gujarati literature. Gujarat Sahitya Akademy. p. 35. ISBN 81-7227-061-5.
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