Dhiru Parikh

Dhiru Parikh
at Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, March 2014
Born	Dhiru Ishwarlal Parikh (1933-08-31) 31 August 1933 (age 83) Viramgam, Gujarat
Occupation	poet, critic, story writer
Language	Gujarati
Nationality	Indian
Notable awards	Kumar Chandrak (1971) Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak (2008)
Dhiru Parikh's voice Speech on 'Town and Town Poetry' Dhiru Parikh Academic work Doctoral students Praful Raval

Dhiru Ishwarlal Parikh (born 31 August 1933) is Gujarati poet, short story writer and critic from India. He is an editor of Kavilok and Kumar, a Gujarati literary magazines.

Dhiru Parikh was born on 31 August 1933 at Viramgam near Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He completed his matriculation in 1951 from the town. He completed B.A. in 1955 from L. D. Arts College, M.A. in 1958 from Gujarat University and awarded Ph.D. in 1967 for his thesis, Rasyugma Prakruti Nirupan. Since 1955, he teaches at C. U. Shah College. He served as the principal of Mahila Arts College of Wadhwan affiliated with SNDT Women's University from 1967 to 1969. Later he joined as a professor of Department of Gujarati, School of Languages, Gujarat University in 1977, served as a head from 1986 to his retirement in 1993. He edits bimonthly, Kavilok of Gujarati poetry, since 1976 which he joined in 1969 as co-editor. He served as president of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad from December 2013 to December 2014. He also edits Kumar since 1991.

His first work published in 1951 was a short story titled Pehlu Rudan. His short story collection Kantakni Khushbo (1964) has twenty two stories. His another story collection is Parajit Vijay. Ughad (1979) is a collection of poetry. Ang Pachisi (1982) is a collection of twenty five traditional Chhappa styled sarcastic poems. Aagiya (1982) is a collection of Haikus. his other poetry collections are Hari Chadya Adfete, Shikhare Betha Sthitipragnya (2003), Station ane Train (2007).

He wrote biography of Rajendra Shah under Gujarati Granthkar Shreni and published in 1977. Rasyug ma Prakritinirupan (Nature in medieval literature of Raas, 1978) is his research thesis. Atratya Tatratya (1978) is a collection of introductory essays on poets which include Gujarati poets along with C. K. Louis, W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, Eugenio Montale and Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Narsinh Mehta (1981) is a biography of Narsinh Mehta. Kharakshar (1982) has short introduction of several Gujarati authors including Dayaram, Dalpatram, Narmad. Priyakant Maniyar, Jagdish Joshi, Manilal Desai. Kaalma Korya Naam (1977) is a collection of short biographies including Yasunari Kawabata, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Charles Dickens, Dalpatram, Pujya Mota.