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Dhiruben Patel was born on 29 May, 1926 in Baroda, Baroda State, British Raj (now Vadodara), is an Indian writer (1926–2023). Discover Dhiruben Patel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 96 years old?
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10 March, 2023 |
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Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India |
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Dhiruben Gordhanbhai Patel (ધીરુબેન પટેલ; 29 May 1926 – 10 March 2023) was an Indian novelist, playwright and translator.
Dhiruben Gordhanbhai Patel was born on 29 May 1926 in Baroda (now Vadodara, Gujarat) to Gordhanbhai Patel, a journalist with the Bombay Chronicle, and Gangaben Patel, a political activist and member of the All India Congress Committee.
Her family belongs to Dharmaj village near Anand.
She grew up and lived in Santacruz, a suburb of Mumbai.
She was educated at the Poddar school in Mumbai.
She completed higher education from Elphinstone College.
She completed B.A. in English in 1945 and M.A. in 1949 from Bhavan's College.
Her plays include Pahelun Inam (1955), Pankhino Malo (1956), Vinashna Panthe (1961), Manno Manelo (1959), and Akash Manch (2005).
She translated Mark Twain's novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in two parts (1960, 1966) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1967.
Dhiruben na Nirbandh Nibandho is a collection of essays, while Choras Tipu is a collection of stories for children including:
Namani Nagarvel (1961) and Mayapurush (1995) are collections of one-act plays and radio plays respectively.
She taught English in college at Dahisar in 1963-64 and later taught English literature at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
Patel briefly worked with Anand Publishers.
Subsequently, she founded Kalki Prakashan, a publishing house in 1963-64.
From 1966 to 1975, she edited Sudha, a Gujarati journal.
She later served as the President of the Gujarat Sahitya Sabha.
Patel also wrote humour, including Pardukhbhanjak Pestonjee (1978), which is a collection of humorous adventure stories of character Pestonjee, Gaganna Lagan (1984), Kartik Ane Bija Badha (1988), a collection of her humorous essays, and Kartik Rang Katha (1990).
Patel contributed to children's literature.
Patel received the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak award in 1980.
She received the K. M. Munshi Suvarna Chandrak award in 1981 and the Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar award in 2002, both by Gujarat Sahitya Akademi.
She received the Nandshankar Suvarna Chandrak award and Darshak Award in 1996.
She won the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for her novel Agantuk.
A recent collection of poetry, Kitchen Poems was written in English, and was first recited by her at the Neemrana Literary Festival in 2002.
These were later published and then translated into German by Peter D O'Neil, and into Marathi by Usha Mehta.
She wrote a collection of children's stories, Kishor Varta Sangrah (2002), and poetry for young children, Mitra Na Jodakna (1973).
Anderi Ganderi Tipari Ten is her one of her famous and celebrated children's plays.
She served as the President of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 2003―2004 and one of her plays, Bhavni Bhavai, has been adapted into a film.
Patel died on 10 March 2023, at the age of 96.
Dhiruben Patel has written several collections of short stories and poetry as well as novels, radio plays, and stage plays.
Her work was influenced by Gandhian ideals.
Critics Susie Tharu and Ke Lalita have written, "Although Dhiruben does not consider herself a feminist, like the novelist Kundanika Kapadia, she believes that the root cause of women's inferior status lies in their own mental conditioning."
Her early work in particular deals with the lives of women and their relationships, and what Tharu and Lalita have also described as the "quest for selfhood".
Her later work has been primarily for children and young adults, and she advocated literature for children despite the easy availability of information on the internet.
Dhiruben Patel initially wrote in Gujarati.
In 2011, her novel Agantuk was translated by Raj Supe into English, as Rainbow at Noon.
In an interview, Patel said she agreed to let Supe translate it because "... he would understand my hero and his struggles as he has travelled the same path."
Kitchen Poems (2011) is collection of poems in English and translated by herself in Gujarati in 2016
She then translated the same poems into Gujarati as Kitchen Poems (2016).
Her novels and novellas include:
Her short story collections are