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Suresh Joshi (Suresh Hariprasad Joshi) was born on 30 May, 1921 in Valod, Bardoli, Bombay presidency, British India, is a Gujarati writer and poet. Discover Suresh Joshi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

Popular As Suresh Hariprasad Joshi
Occupation Novelist short-story writer critic poet translator essayist
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 30 May, 1921
Birthday 30 May
Birthplace Valod, Bardoli, Bombay presidency, British India
Date of death 6 September, 1986
Died Place Nadiad, Gujarat, India
Nationality India

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Suresh Hariprasad Joshi was an Indian Novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, translator, editor and academic in the Gujarati language.

Along with his teaching career, he led the modernist movement in Gujarati literature.

He was prolific writer and he transformed the field of literary criticism.

1921

He was born in Valod, a small town near Bardoli in South Gujarat on 30 May 1921.

He did his schooling from Songadh and Gangadhara.

1938

He matriculated from Navsari in 1938.

1943

He completed his BA in 1943 and MA from Elphinstone College in 1945.

1947

In the same year, he started teaching at D. J. Singh College in Karachi and later joined Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar in 1947.

1951

From 1951, he served as a lecturer, professor and later as Head of the Gujarati Department at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara till his retirement in 1981.

His early life was spent at Songadh which influenced his life.

At the age of eight, he secretly published his poem in Baljeevan magazine.

He edited Falguni magazine in his college life.

1955

Suresh Joshi was a modernist author who led the modernist movement in Gujarati literature which emerged after 1955, the post-Gandhian era.

He is recognized as the father of modern Gujarati literature and as the leader of avant-garde writers in Gujarati.

1956

Upjati (1956) was his first published work.

He had also edited Manisha, Kshitij, Etad and Uhapoh magazines.

Upjati (1956), Pratyancha (1961), Itara (1973) and Tathapi (1980) are his poetry collections.

He withdrew his first publication Upjati on his second publication.

Through his poems, he introduced obscurity and ambiguity to Gujarati literature.

His four novels are collectively published as Kathachatushtay.

1957

Grihapravesh (1957), Biji Thodik Vartao (1958), Apich (1965), Na Tatra Suryo Bhati (1967), Ekda Naimisharanye (1980) are his collections of stories which include 62 novellas.

1960

Joshi influenced many up-and-coming writers in the 1960s and 1970s.

His personal essays "are said to have introduced a new prose style in Gujarati literature," according to Gujarati scholar Sarala Jag Mohan.

He was influenced by efforts of experimentation in western literature.

He was one of the chief exponents of experimentalist poetry in Gujarati, primarily through his literary criticism, rather than his poems.

Under his influence, form, technique and structure became far more important considerations within Gujarati poetry.

The torments of the individual and literary craftsmanship became more highly esteemed, but intelligibility, lyricism and musicality were valued less, as were social concerns of the writer and even the contents of the work, according to Deepak B. Mehta.

Existentialism and phenomenology were prime interests of his.

1965

Two of them, Chhinnapatra (1965) and Maranottar (1973) were already published before.

Vidula and Kathachakra were published before with other short stories but Joshi considered them as novels and published again with other two.

Janantike (1965) is his first collection of essays.

1971

His other essay collections are Idam Sarvam (1971), Ahobat Kim Ashcharyam (1975), Iti Me Iti (1987).

1975

According to Gujarati critic Bharat Mehta, the period of Gujarati literature from 1975 to 2000 was highly influenced by Suresh Joshi.

1982

His 21 stories were collected in Maniti Anmaniti (1982), edited by Shirish Panchal.

He promoted a theory of fiction known as Ghatanavilop which focuses on suggestive potential of language instead of plot element in fiction.

1984

Bhavyami (1984) includes selected essays edited by Shirish Panchal from his more than thousand essays.

1986

He died on 6 September 1986 due to kidney failure at Nadiad.

1998

Chhinnapatra was translated into English by Tridip Suhrud as Crumpled letters (1998).

He was very experimental in novellas.

He transformed the genre in Gujarati literature by his continued experimentation and esthetics.