Suman Shah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Suman Shah

Gujarati author

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1939

Place of Birth: Dabhoi, Gujarat, India

Profession: editor, literary critic, novelist, short story writer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Suman Shah (Gujarati:???? ???) is a Gujarati language critic, short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor and translator from Gujarat, India.
He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2008 for his short story collection Fatfatiyun.
He has written both in the modern and in the postmodern eras in Gujarati literature.
He has authored more than 74 books, including 2 novels, 6 short story collections, 4 collections of creative essays, 6 translations into Gujarati from English and Hindi, 22 books on literary criticism and around 23 edited works of literary theory and modern Gujarati short stories and poems.
He was honorary editor of Shabdasrishti from 1983 to 1986 and an editor of Khevna, a literary journal, from 1987 to 2009.