Niranjan Bhagat
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April 18, 1926 Ahmedabad, Bombay Presidency, British India |
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Poet Essayist Litterateur Editor |
| Language | Gujarati, English |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Ethnicity | Indian |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Notable works | Gujarati Sahiyta-Purvardha Uttarardha |
| Notable awards | Sahitya Academy Award |
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Niranjan Bhagat, (Gujarati: નિરંજન ભગત Hindi: निरंजन भगत); born May 18, 1926 in Ahmedabad),[1] full name Niranjan Narhari Bhagat,[1] is a Gujarati poet and commentator who won the 1999 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his critic Gujarati Sahiyta-Purvardha Uttarardha.[1][2] He is also an English poet, and has written over a hundred poems in English, most being written in the style of Gitanjali.[3]
Early life
Niranjan Bhagat was born on 18 May 1926 in Ahmedabad.[1][3][4] Born to mother Mena and father Narhari Bhagat, his birth took place in a 'pol' next to a famous vaishnav temple.[3] His original last name was Gandhi.[3] His father was a businessman, and his grandfather was a member of Bhajana Mandali, due to which he came to be known as Bhagat, which his descendants adopted as their surname.[3] His primary education was in a municipal school, the time which he refers as le vert paradis des amours enfantines (the green paradise of childish loves).[3][5]
His life's most tragic event happened when he was 10; his father renounced his home.[3] As a result, the poet had to spend seventeen years of his life with his maternal family.[3]
Later education and career
Niranjan Bhagat did his Intermediate Arts in L.D. Arts College from 1944 to 1946,[3] after which he enrolled for B.A. in English literature at Elphinstone College, Mumbai.[3] Later he completed his M.A. in 1950 and joined L.D. Arts College as a lecturer.[3] Later he moved as a Professor of English to Saint Xavier's College, Ahmedabad in 1975 and retired from there. He served as the president of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 1997-98. He also served as a member of Advisary Board for Gujarati, Sahitya Akademi, Delhi from 1963 to 1967.[5]
Inspiration from Tagore
Bhagat has been deeply inspire from Rabindranath Tagore, the author of Gitanjali.[3] He also went forward to learn Bengali language in order to read Tagore's works in their original text.[3] He also tried to write in Bengali himself.[3]
Awards
- Kumar Chandrak in 1949.
- Narmad Suvarna Chandrak in 1957[3][5]
- Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1969.[3][5]
- Premanand Suvarna Chandrak in 1998[3]
- Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999[2]
- Sachchidanand Sanman in 2000[3]
- Narsinh Mehta Award in 2001[3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Topiwala, Chandrakant. "સાહિત્યસર્જક: નિરંજન ભગત" [Writer: Niranjan Bhagat] (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 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Prof. Niranjan Bhagat". Ahmedabad: Gujarat Online. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
- ↑ Kartik Chandra Dutt (1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. Sahitya Akademi. p. 131. ISBN 978-81-260-0873-5.
- 1 2 3 4 Amaresh Datta (1987). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo. Sahitya Akademi. pp. 420–421. ISBN 978-81-260-1803-1.
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 Jayant Kothari |
Recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Gujarati 1999 |
Succeeded by Vinesh Antani |
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