Shirish Panchal
Shirish Jagjivandas Panchal,, is a Gujarati critic, fiction writer, translator and editor who won the 2009 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his criticism Vaat Aapanaa Vivechan-ni. He done his Ph.D under Gujarati writer Suresh Joshi. He taught Gujarati language and literature at M. S. University, Baroda. He edited Etad, a Gujarati quarterly.
His Vaidehee Etle Ja Vaidehee is an experimental novel, which tell a love-story of Kirat and Vaidehee.
