Niranjan Bhagat

Niranjan Narhari Bhagat (18 May 1926 – 1 February 2018) was[1] an Indian Gujarati language poet and commentator who won the 1999 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his critical work Gujarati Sahiyta – Purvardha Uttarardha. He was also an English poet, and had written over a hundred poems in English, most being written in the style of Gitanjali.[2]

Niranjan Bhagat
Bhagat at his residence in Ahmedabad, 2005
Born	(1926-05-18)18 May 1926 Ahmedabad, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died	1 February 2018(2018-02-01) (aged 91) Ahmedabad, India
Occupation	Poet, essayist, critic, editor
Language	Gujarati, English
Residence	Ahmedabad
Nationality	Indian
Notable works	Gujarati Sahiyta – Purvardha Uttarardha
Notable awards	Sahitya Academy Award (1999)
Signature
Website
Official website

Early life

Niranjan Narhari Bhagat was born on 18 May 1926 in Ahmedabad.[3][4] He completed M.A. in English Literature in 1950.[5]

Career

Niranjan Bhagat with child Amitabh Madia, son of Chunilal Madia, 1971

Bhagat joined L. D. Arts College as a lecturer. Later he joined Saint Xavier's College, Ahmedabad, as a professor of English in 1975 and served there until his retirement.[6] He served as the president of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 1997–98. He also served as a member of Advisory Board for Gujarati, Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, from 1963 to 1967.

He received Narmad Suvarna Chandrak in 1953 for his book Chhandolay and Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999 for his critical work Gujarati Sahiyta – Purvardha Uttarardha.[5] He also received Kumar Suvarna Chandrak in 1949, Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1969, Premanand Suvarna Chandrak in 1998, Sachchidanand Sanman in 2000 and the Narsinh Mehta Award in 2001.[6][7]

Death

Bhagat died of a stroke on 1 February 2018 at a hospital in Ahmedabad at the age of 91.[5]

See also

• List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Gujarati
• List of Gujarati-language writers

References

1. "Remembering Niranjan Bhagat (1926-2018), a giant of Gujarati poetry". scroll.in. scroll.in. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
2. "Kavi Kosh - Niranjan Bhagat". kavitakosh.org. kavitakosh.org. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
3. Topiwala, Chandrakant. "સાહિત્યસર્જક: નિરંજન ભગત" [Writer: Niranjan Bhagat] (in Gujarati). Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.
4. Kartik Chandra Dutt (1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. Sahitya Akademi. p. 131. ISBN 978-81-260-0873-5.
5. "Veteran Gujarati Poet Niranjan Bhagat passes away". Deshgujarat. 1 February 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
6. Amaresh Datta (1987). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A–Devo. Sahitya Akademi. pp. 420–421. ISBN 978-81-260-1803-1.
7. "Sanskrit Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955–2007". Sahitya Akademi Official website. Archived from the original on 31 March 2009.

Further reading

• Bhagat, Niranjan (2004). Niranjan Bhagat in English (Sixty Six Poems). Translated by Parekh, Shailesh. Ahmedabad: Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. OCLC 62153007.
• Brahmabhatt, Prasad (2016). Kavishri Niranjan Bhagat. Sahitya Sarjak Shreni (in Gujarati). Ahmedabad: Parshva Publication. ISBN 9789351084747. OCLC 974566783.

Awards
Preceded by Jayant Kothari	Recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Gujarati 1999	Succeeded by Vinesh Antani