Dhiruben Patel
| Dhiruben Patel | |
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May 25, 1926 Baroda, British Raj (now Vadodara) |
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| Language | Gujarati |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Notable works | Agantuk |
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Dhiruben Gordhanbhai Patel, (Gujarati: ધીરુબેન પટેલ), is an Indian novelist, playwright and translator.
Dhiruben Gordhanbhai Patel is born on 25 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 still resides 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. She taught English in college at Dahisar in 1963-64 and later taught English literature at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
She 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. 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.
Dhiruben Patel has written several collections of short stories and poetry as well as novels. She has written radio plays and stage plays. Her work is 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.
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