Vijay Shastri

Vijay Ramanlal Shastri (born 10 August 1945) is an Indian Gujarati language short story writer, novelist, critic and translator. He was educated and worked at the M. T. B. Arts College in Surat and has written more than two hundred short stories in addition to several works of criticism. Vijay Shastri was born on 10 August 1945 in Santacruz, Bombay (now Mumbai, India) to Ramagauri and Ramanlal Shastri. He completed his primary education from Primary School No. 2 and secondary school education from Jeevanbharati school in Surat. In 1961, he joined the M. T. B. Arts College in Surat. After studying Gujarati and Sanskrit at the Gujarat University, he graduated with a B. A. in 1965 and an M. A. in 1967. Fourteen years later, in 1981 and from the same university, he completed his Ph. D. under Jayant Pathak with his thesis Char Vartakaro (Jayant Khatri, Sundaram, Umashankar, Jayanti Dalal): Ek Abhyas (Four Story Writers (Jayant Khatri, Sundaram, Umashankar, Jayanti Dalal): A Study). His first work was published in Ruchi magazine.