Mohan Parmar

Mohan Parmar (Gujarati: મોહન પરમાર b. 15 March 1948) is a Gujarati language short story writer, novelist and critic. Parmar won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati in 2011 for his short story collection Anchalo. He was earlier editor of Hayati, an organ of Gujarati Dalit Sahitya Akademi, along with Harish Mangalam. He served as deputy editor of Parab, a monthly journal of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. Parmar was born in Bhasariya, a village in Mahesana district of Gujarat, India to Ambalal and Manchhiben. He completed his primary education from Bhasariya Primary School, and took his secondary education at Linch and Aambaliyasan villages, earning his S.S.C. in 1966. He completed his B.A. in 1982 from Mahesana college with Gujarati literature. He completed M.A. in 1984 as an external student from Gujarat University, earning a Ph.D. in 1994 under Chandrakant Topiwala. His doctoral thesis was The Distinguishable Dimensions of Short Story after Suresh Joshi.