Suman Shah
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Suman Shah at Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in August 2015
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| Native name | સુમનચન્દ્ર ગોવીંદલાલ શાહ |
| Born | Sumanchandra Govindalal Shah November 1, 1939 Dabhoi, Vadodara, Gujarat |
| Occupation | Critic, short story writer, novelist, essayist, Editor, translator |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Nationality | Indian |
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| Period | postmodern Gujarati literature |
| Genres | Short story, Novel, Essay, Criticism |
| Literary movement | Existentialism, Surrealism, Modernism, Postmodernism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Postcolonialism |
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| Years active | 1957 - present |
| Spouse | Rashmita (1965 - d. 2016) |
| Children | Purvarag, Madir |
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Suman Shah (Gujarati:સુમન શાહ) is a Gujarati language critic, short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor and translator from Gujarat, India. Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi awarded him the Sahitya Akademi Award of 2008 for his short story collection Fatfatiyun. He wrote both in the modern and in the postmodern eras in Gujarati literature. He authored more than 74 books including 2 novels, 6 short story collections, 4 collections of creative essays, 6 translation into Gujarati from English and Hindi, 22 books on literary criticism and around 23 edited works for literary theory, modern Gujarati Short Stories and poems. He was honorary editor of Shabdasrishti, published by Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, Gandhinagar from 1983-1986. He was an editor of Khevna, a literary journal, from 1987 to 2009, published by Parshva Publication, Ahmedabad.
Shah was born on 1 November 1939 in Dabhoi, a city of Vadodara district, Gujarat to Govindlal and Kundanbahen. He took his primary education (from std. 1 to 7) in Dabhoi Prathamik Shala. He finished his secondary education from Vibhag High School, Dabhoi in 1957. Although he had joined M. S. University to obtain Bachelor of Commerce, but he found himself unfit to learn commerce. He left it and joined Arts College, Dabhoi in 1959. He was graduated in 1962 with Gujarati literature as major and Sanskrit as subordinate subjects. In 1964, he completed his Master of Arts with Gujarati and Sanskrit literature from M. S. University, Vadodara. Under the guidance of Mohanbhai Shankarbhai Patel, he obtained his Ph.D degree for his thesis Suresh Joshi: His Literature and its Impact upon Modern Gujarati Literature in 1978 from Gujarat Vidyapith.
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