Sitanshu Yashaschandra
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| Born | Sitanshu Yashaschandra Mehta August 18, 1941 Bhuj (now in Kutch, Gujarat, India) |
| Occupation | poet, critic |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Nationality | Indian |
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Sitanshu Yashaschandra Mehta, also known as Sitanshu Yashaschandra (born 1941), is a Gujarati language poet, playwright, translator and academic from India.
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, writer in 1987 for his poetry collection Jatayu. Subsequently, he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award by Government of India, in 2006.
He was born on 18 August 1941 at Bhuj, Cutch State (now in Kutch, Gujarat, India). His family belonged to Petlad. His father was a Government Officer. He completed BA in Gujarati-Sanskrit from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai and later MA from University of Bombay in 1965. He taught Gujarati from 1965 to 1968. In 1970, he went to US under Fulbright Scholarship and studied MA in Aesthetics and Comparative Literature from Indiana University. He later completed PhD in 1975. He went to France for a year under Ford West European Fellowship where he studied, translated in Gujarati and died comparative study of Eugène Ionesco's Macbett and Shakespeare's Macbeth. He also completed PhD in 1977 from University of Mumbai under Ramprasad Bakshi.
He has taught Gujarati at Mithibai College from 1972 to 1975 and later at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda from 1983. Sitanshu served as Vice-Chancellor of Saurashtra University, Rajkot for three years. He served as a visiting Professor at the Sorbonne University, Loyola Marymount University, and Jadavpur University. He was an Emeritus Professor and National Lecturer at University Grant Commission. He was appointed as the chief editor of the Encyclopedia of Indian Literature published by Sahitya Akademi, Delhi in 1977.
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