Raman Soni

Raman Kantilal Soni (born 7 July 1946) is a Gujarati literary critic and editor from Gujarat, India. He taught Gujarati at various colleges in Gujarat. He edited Pratyaksha, a literary criticism magazine, from 1991 to 2017. He has edited several collections of short stories and poetry as well as catalogs and writer-specific collections. Soni was born on 7 July 1946 in Chitroda village near Idar (now in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat). He completed SSC in 1963. He completed BA in 1967 from L. D. Arts College, Ahmedabad and MA in 1969 from Gujarat University. He served as a professor in the Arts-Science College in Petlad in 1970-71. He served as the professor of Gujarati and later the Head of the Department in Arts-Commerce College in Idar from 1971 to 1989. He received PhD in 1981 for his thesis Ushnasnu Sarjan Ane Vivechan on Gujarati writer Ushnas. He joined the Department of Gujarati in Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1989 as a reader and retired as the professor. From 1980 to 1985, he served as an editor and co-editor of Gujarati Sahityakosh published by Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. He founded and edited Pratyaksha, the only Gujarati literary criticism magazine of its time, from 1991 to its closure in 2017. He has worked as an honorary secretary and later as the president of Gujarati Adhyapak Sangh. He was a member of advisory committee of Sahitya Akademi.