| Mahendrasinh Parmar | |||||||||
| Native Name: | મહેન્દ્રસિંહ પરમાર | ||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | gu | ||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1967 10, df=y | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Naliya, Kutch district, Gujarat | ||||||||
| Occupation: | writer, playwright | ||||||||
| Language: | Gujarati | ||||||||
| Nationality: | Indian | ||||||||
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| Alma Mater: | Bhavnagar University | ||||||||
| Genres: | short story, play | ||||||||
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Mahendrasinh Parmar (Gujarati: મહેન્દ્રસિંહ પરમાર) is a Gujarati writer and professor from Gujarat, India. His works include Polytechnic (2016) and Rakhdu no Kagal (2016). He has also written plays.
He was born on 2 October 1967 in Naliya, a town in Kutch district of Gujarat.[1] He completed his Master of Arts in Gujarati literature from Bhavnagar University and received Ph.D. from same university in 1998.[2] He serves as professor at Bhavnagar University since 1996.[3]
He married in 1996 and has two daughters. He lives in Bhavnagar.[2]
Since 2002, his short stories appeared in various collections of Gujarati short stories. He has done numerous shows of public reading of literary works under the title Vachikam.[2] His critical works were published as Pratham in 2009. Polytechnic (2016) is a short story collection while Rakhdu no Kagal (2016) is a collection of his personal essays. He wrote several plays.[1]
His book Polytechnic (2016) was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Award (2020).[4]