Chimanlal Trivedi

Chimanlal Shivshankar Trivedi (born 2 June 1929) was a Gujarati critic and editor from Gujarat, India.

Chimanlal Trivedi
BornChimanlal Shivshankar Trivedi
(1929-06-02) 2 June 1929
Mujpur, Gujarat, India
OccupationWriter, literary critic, editor
LanguageGujarati
NationalityIndian
Notable awardsRanjitram Suvarna Chandrak (2009)
Signature
Academic background
ThesisKavi Nakar: Ek Adhyayan (Poet Nakar: A Study) (1960)
Doctoral advisorKantilal Vyas

Life

Chimanlal Trivedi was born on 2 June 1929 at Mujpur village (now in Patan district, Gujarat, India). He completed BA in 1950, MA in 1952 and PhD in 1961. He taught Gujarati at various colleges since 1951 including St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad.[1]

Works

Pingal Darshan (1953) is an introductory work on metres. Urmikavya (1966) is a work on lyrical poetry, its form, development and types. His Ph. D. thesis Kavi Nakar - Ek Adhyayan (1966) is a study of medieval Gujarati poet Nakar and his published and unpublished works. The followups to this work are included in Nakar (1979) of Gujarati Granthkar series as well as in Gujarati Sahityano Itihas - Volume 2. Chosathnu Granthasth Vagmay (1972) is criticism of works of various genre. Bhavlok (1976) and Bhavmudra (1983) discusses poetry and works of well known and unknown poets of medieval and modern era. His essay Gujarati Chhandorachana in Bhavmudra investigates the use of metres in Gujarati literature.[1]

He co-edited Apana Khandkavyo (1957), Sudamacharitra (1963), Kunwarbainu Mameru (1964), Abhimanyu Akhyan (1967), Virat Parva (1969), Kalelkar Granthavali (1981). He has also co-edited Gujarati Sahityano Itihas and Granth Ane Granthkar Part 11 (1966), both published by Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.[1] He co-edited Madhya Yugin Urmikavyo (1998), a compilation of medieval Gujarati poems, with Chinu Modi.[2]

Awards

He was awarded Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 2009.[3]

See also

References
  1. Dave, Ramesh. "ચીમનલાલ ત્રિવેદી" [Chimanlal Trivedi] (in Gujarati). Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  2. D. S. Rao (1 January 2004). Five Decades: The National Academy of Letters, India : a Short History of Sahitya Akademi. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. p. 50. ISBN 978-81-260-2060-7. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  3. Brahmabhatt, Prasad (2010). અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઈતિહાસ - આધુનિક અને અનુઆધુનિક યુગ [History of Modern Gujarati Literature – Modern and Postmodern Era] (in Gujarati). Ahmedabad: Parshwa Publication. p. 403. ISBN 978-93-5108-247-7.
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