Chimanlal Trivedi


Chimanlal Shivshankar Trivedi was a Gujarati critic and editor from Gujarat, India.

Life

Chimanlal Trivedi was born on 2 June 1929 at Mujpur village. He completed BA in 1950, MA in 1952 and PhD in 1961. He taught Gujarati at various colleges since 1951 including St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad.

Works

Pingal Darshan is an introductory work on metres. Urmikavya is a work on lyrical poetry, its form, development and types. His Ph. D. thesis Kavi Nakar - Ek Adhyayan is a study of medieval Gujarati poet Nakar and his published and unpublished works. The followups to this work is included in included in Nakar of Gujarati Granthkar series as well as in Gujarati Sahityano Itihas - Volume 2. Chosathnu Granthasth Vagmay is criticism of works of various genre. Bhavlok and Bhavmudra discusses poetry and works of well known and unknown poets of medieval and modern era. His essay Gujarati Chhandorachana in Bhavmudra investigates the use of metres in Gujarati literature.
He co-edited Apana Khandkavyo, Sudamacharitra, Kunwarbainu Mameru, Abhimanyu Akhyan, Virat Parva, Kalelkar Granthavali. He has also co-edited Gujarati Sahityano Itihas and Granth Ane Granthkar Part 11, both published by Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. He co-edited Madhya Yugin Urmikavyo, a compilation of medieval Gujarati poems, with Chinu Modi.

Awards

He was awarded Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 2009.