Sanskritirani Desai


Sanskritirani Desai is Gujarati poet from India.

Life

Sanskritirani was born in Baroda on 1 October 1958 to Sudhir Desai and Tarini Desai who were Gujarati writers. Her sister Dhvani Desai is also poet and filmmaker. She studied an M. A. in Statistics, M. B. A. in Finance and Diploma in Management Studies. She works as the General Manager in the Information Technology Department of a Public Limited Company. She knows Gujarati, Hindi, English, Marathi, Bengali, Sanskrit and Russian languages. She is a painter, swimmer, dancer as well as karateka.

Works

Her first poetry collection Suryo Ja Suryo included unique modern poems on the sun and its different forms. It received her critical acclaim. Sapna Vatemarguo is her another poetry collection. She has translated several poems from Russian into Gujarati and English.

Awards

Her Suryo Ja Suryo received her several awards such as Takhtasinh Parmar Prize and Phanishwarnath Renu Sahitya Award. She has also received two prizes from Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, Gira Gurjari Award, Dinkar Shah Kavi 'Jay' Prize.