Swapnastha

Swapnastha (13 November 1913 – 23 October 1970) was a Gujarati poet and story writer. His works were influenced by communism.

Swapnastha
BornBhanubhai/Laxminarayan Ranchhodbhai Vyas
(1913-11-13)13 November 1913
Rajkot, Rajkot State, British India
Died23 October 1970(1970-10-23) (aged 56)
OccupationPoet, story writer

Biography

Bhanubhai/Laxminarayan Ranchhodbhai Vyas was born on 13 November 1913 in Rajkot (now in Gujarat). He matriculated and worked with Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Limited from 1936 to 1944. In 1948, he moved Bombay (now Mumbai) and worked with Asopalav, Nootan Gujarat and Hindustan publications.[1] Later he worked as a translator with the Publicity Department of USLR.[1] He died on 23 October 1970.[1][2]

Works

Swapnastha was a pseudonym of Vyas. He was an experimental and progressive poet who was influenced by communism and Karl Marx.[1][3][4]

He had written some epic poems.[1] His poems were imaginative and original.[3] Achala (1937) is an epic tragic poem in Shikharini metre. His another epic poem is Vinashna Ansho, Maya (1938). His another epic poem Dharati (1946) has a story of human civilization in total 1038 stanzas in Prithvi metre.[1]

His Ajampani Madhuri (1941) has more than hundered sonnets, songs and metrical poems. His Ravanhaththo (1942) has poems influenced by bhajans and folksongs and depicts social inequality and exploitation. Lal Surya (1968) has influences of communism. Chirvirah (1973) was published posthumously.[1]

Dinrat (1946) and Dhunina Pan (1950) are his collections of short stories depicting poverty, exploitation and inequality. Shodh (1937) is a novella written under pseudonym Mohan Shukla. J'hanavi (1953) is a novel depicting a love story of a two communists in backdrop of 1942 Quit India Movement.[1]

Yugpurush Gandhi (1943), Poonamna Poyana (1953) and Palatato Jamano (1957) are his works of translation. He coedited two works on Marxism; Sahitya Ane Sanskar (1944) and Sahitya Ane Pragati I-II (1940, 1945). Marxvad Mool Ane Saratatva also has Marxist philosophy.[1]

Recognition

Swapnastha was awarded the Soviet Land Nehru Award for 1966.[2]

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See also

References
  1. Brahmabhatt, Prasad (2007). અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઈતિહાસ (ગાંધીયુગ અને અનુગાંધી યુગ) Arvachin Gujarati Sahityano Itihas (Gandhiyug Ane Anugandhi Yug) [History of Modern Gujarati Literature (Gandhi Era & Post-Gandhi Era)] (in Gujarati). Ahmedabad: Parshwa Publication. pp. 170–171.
  2. The Indian P.E.N. 36. Bombay: P.E.N. All-India Centre. 1970. p. 343.
  3. Natarajan, Nalini; Nelson, Emmanuel Sampath (1996). Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7.
  4. Indian Literature. Sahitya Akademi. 1991. p. 26.
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