Narmad Suvarna Chandrak (Narmad Gold Medal)
1 appearances
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Edition 29 (1968) Winner
Heera Pathak
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Heera Pathak
Aliases:
Heeraben Kalyanray Mehta / Heera Kalyanray Mehta
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1916-04-12 （Mumbai）
- Died
- 1995-09-15 （Mumbai） age 79
- Nationality
- Indian
- Languages
- Gujarati
- Residence History
- Mumbai (majority of life)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, literary critic, professor
- Active Years
- 1936-1995
- Affiliations
- Gujarati Adhyapak Sangh, Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, SNDT University (Professor)
- Memberships
- Gujarati Adhyapak Sangh, Gujarati Sahitya Parishad
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNDT Women's University | — | Gujarati (major) | Bachelor of Arts | 1933-1936 | India |
| SNDT Women's University | — | Literary studies (Gujarati literature) | PhD | 1936-1938 | India |
SNDT Women's University
Gujarati (major)
Degree:
Bachelor of Arts
Period:
1933-1936
Year of Graduation:
1936
Country:
India
Major in Gujarati
SNDT Women's University
Literary studies (Gujarati literature)
Degree:
PhD
Period:
1936-1938
Year of Graduation:
1938
Country:
India
Doctoral thesis: Aapnu Vivechan Sahitya (published 1939)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Narmad Suvarna Chandrak | — | — | Unknown | 受賞 |
| 1971 | Uma-Snehrashmi Prize | Paraloke Patra | — | Unknown | 受賞 |
| 1974 | Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak | — | — | Unknown | 受賞 |
| 1995 | Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar | — | — | Gujarati Sahitya Parishad | 受賞 |
Narmad Suvarna Chandrak
Organization:
Unknown
Result:
受賞
Uma-Snehrashmi Prize
1971
Work:
Paraloke Patra
Organization:
Unknown
Result:
受賞
Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak
1974
Organization:
Unknown
Result:
受賞
Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar
1995
Organization:
Gujarati Sahitya Parishad
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak
1 appearances
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Edition 47 (1974) Winner
Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar (Sahitya Gaurav Award)
1 appearances
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Edition 12 (1995) Winner
Works
Major Works
Aapnu Vivechan Sahitya
1939 literary criticism (doctoral thesis)Her doctoral thesis examines individual critics' viewpoints and analyzes how those viewpoints contributed to the development of Gujarati literary criticism.
literary criticismhistory of criticism
Kavyabhavan
1961 poetry appreciation/criticismA critical appreciation of poetry, focusing on the appreciation and evaluation of poetic works.
poetrycriticism
Vidrati
1974 critical essaysA collection of critical essays.
literary studiescriticism
Paraloke Patra
1978 poetry (epistolary elegies)A collection of twelve verse-letters addressed to her deceased husband Ramnarayan Pathak. Written in the Gujarati vanveli metre, the pieces are elegiac in nature.
lossmourningpersonal remembrance
Gavaksha Deep
1979 essays on Sanskrit poetryA collection of articles on Sanskrit poetry.
Sanskrit poetrycomparative literature
Bibliography
- Aapnu Vivechan Sahitya (1939)
- Kavyabhavan (1961)
- Vidrati (1974)
- Paraloke Patra (1978)
- Gavaksha Deep (1979)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- clear, analytical critical proseelegiac restrained poetic style (in Paraloke Patra)
- Recurring Motifs
- history and theory of literary criticismloss and mourningreferences to Sanskrit poetry
Health
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cancer1995Died of cancer in 1995
Legacy
An important critic and poet in Gujarati literature, respected also as a female scholar. Known for her doctoral work on the history of literary criticism and for her personal elegiac poetry.
Academic Societies
- Gujarati Sahitya Parishad
- Gujarati Adhyapak Sangh
Trivia
- Born as Heeraben Kalyanray Mehta.
- Second wife of Ramnarayan V. Pathak; the marriage was childless.
- Served as a Gujarati professor at SNDT University from 1938 to 1972.