Pinakin Dave

Pinakin Natwarlal Dave (Gujarati: પિનાકિન નટવરલાલ દવે; born 1935) is Gujarati language novelist, story writer and critic from Gujarat, India. Dave was born on 10 June 1935 at Rupal village (now in Gandhinagar district, Gujarat). He matriculated in 1951. He completed B. A. in Sanskrit and Gujarati in 1957, M. A. with Sanskrit and Prakrit in 1959 and LL.B in 1960. In 1963, he received Ph.D. from University of Bombay writing thesis on Jain poet and philosopher Siddhasen Divakar.