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Rajendra Keshavlal Shah
Mr. Shah is the third Gujarati to be given the award after Uma Shankar Joshi and Pannalal Patel in 1967 and 1985 respectively. A pioneer of a new trend in Gujarati poetry in the post-Independence period, Mr. Shah's first poem appeared in The Wilsonian, magazine of Mumbai's Wilsonian College, in 1933. He has 21 collections of poems to his credit, the important ones being Dhvani (1951), Andolan (1952), Shruti (1957), Morpinchh (1959), Shat Kohalal (1962), Chitrana (1967), Kshan je Chirantan (1968), Vishdne Sad (1968), Madhyama (1978), Udgiti (1979), Ikshana (1979), Patralekha (1981), Prasana Saptak (1982), Panch Parva (1983), Vibhavan (1983), Dwasupama (1983), Chandan Bhini and Anamik (1987) and Aranyak (1992). His several prizes included the Rajitram Suvarna Chandrak award, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Narasimha Mehta Award of the Gujarat Government. The Jnanpith award selection board headed by Laxmi Mal Singhvi had Mahashweta Devi, Vidya Niwas Mishra, C. T. Indira, Sitangshu Yashaschandra, M.T. Vasudevan Nair, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Ramakant Rath, Gopi Chand Narang, Ashok Bajpai and Prabhakar Shrotriya.
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