Suresh Joshi
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| Native name | સુરેશ હરિપ્રસાદ જોશી |
| Born | Suresh Hariprasad Joshi 30 May 1921 Valod, Bardoli, Gujarat |
| Died | 6 September 1986 (aged 65) Nadiad, Gujarat |
| Occupation | novelist, short-story writer, critic, poet, translator, essayist |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | Master of Arts |
| Alma mater | Elphinstone College |
| Period | Modern Gujarati literature |
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Suresh Hariprasad Joshi (Gujarati: સુરેશ હરિપ્રસાદ જોશી) was an Indian novelist, short-story writer, critic, poet, translator, writer 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.
He was born in Valod, a small near Bardoli in South Gujarat on 30 May 1921. He did his schooling from Songadh and Gangadhara. He matriculated from Navsari in 1938. He completed his BA in 1943 and MA from Elphinstone College in 1945. In the same year, he started teaching at D. J. Singh College in Karachi and later joined Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar in 1947. 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. Upjati (1956) was his first published work. He had also edited Manisha, Kshitij, Etad and Uhapoh magazines.
He died on 6 September 1986 due to kidney failure at Nadiad.
A strong opponent of romantic tendencies in literature, 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.
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