Heeraben Pathak

Heera Ramnarayan Pathak (Gujarati: હીરા રામનારાયણ પાઠક), was a Gujarati poet and literary critic. She married Ramnarayan V. Pathak, a Gujarati writer. She was born on 12 April 1916 in Mumbai. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1936 from S.N.D.T University with Gujarati as her main subject. She received a Ph.D in 1938 for her research work Aapnu Vivechan Sahitya (History of Our Literary Criticism), which was published as a book in 1939. She was a professor of Gujarati at S.N.D.T University from 1938 to 1972. She was the president of Gujarati Adhyapak Sangh for 1970–1971 and also was vice-president of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad for a few years.