Varsha Adalja
| Varsha Adalja | |
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| Born |
April 10, 1940 Mumbai, Bombay Presidency, British India |
| Occupation |
Novelist Playwright Negotiator |
| Language | Gujarati |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Ethnicity | Indian |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Notable works | Ansar |
| Notable awards | Sahitya Academy Award |
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Varsha Adalja, (Hindi: वर्षा अदालजा Gujarati: વર્ષા અડાલજા; born April 10, 1940 in Mumbai),[1][2] full name Varsha Mahendra Adalja,[1][2] is a Gujarati feminist novelist, playwright and negotiator who won the 1995 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for her novel Ansar.[1][2][3] She is also a dramatist, writing for stage plays, screenplays, and radio.[4]
Life
She was born in 1940 to Gunvantrai Acharya, Gujarati novelist, and Nilabahen. She did her B.A. in Gujarati and Sanskrit from Mumbai University in 1960.[2] Later she did her M.A. in Sociology in 1962.[1][2] She studied drama at National School of Drama, Delhi. She has produced an award-winning television film on leprosy (Ansaar).[1][5][6]
Literary career
Varsha Adalja started her literary career as an editor of Sudha, a women's weekly from 1973–1976, and later with Gujarati Femina, another women's magazine from 1989–90. She hold an executive office with Gujarati Sahitya Parishad since 1978.[1][6] She has explored lepers’ colonies, prison life and has worked among adivasis.[4]
Works
She has penned 40 books including 22 novels and seven volumes of short stories.[4][5]
Awards
- Sahitya Akademi Award (1995)[3]
- Soviet Land Nehru Award (1976) [1]
- Gujarati Sahitya Academy Award (1977, 1979, 1980) [1]
- Gujarati Sahitya Parishad Award (1972, 1975)[1]
- Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak (2005)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Varsha Adalja, 1940-". New Delhi: The Library of Congress Office.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Daksha Vyas; Candrakant Topivala. "સાહિત્યસર્જક: વર્ષા અડાલજા" [Writer: Varsha Adalja] (in Gujarati). Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.
- 1 2 "Sanskrit Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955-2007". Sahitya Akademi Official website. Archived from the original on 2008.
- 1 2 3 "Varsha Adalja visits Tameside". Tameside: Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. April 15, 2009. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
- 1 2 Susie J. Tharu; Ke Lalita (1993). Women Writing in India: The twentieth century. Feminist Press at CUNY. pp. 465–466. ISBN 978-1-55861-029-3.
- 1 2 Kartik Chandra Dutt (1 January 1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. Sahitya Akademi. p. 13. ISBN 978-81-260-0873-5.
See also
- List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Gujarati – List of Gujarati language writers who have won the Sahitya Akademi Award.
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| Preceded by Ramesh Parekh |
Recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Gujarati 1995 |
Succeeded by Himanshi Shelat |