Anila Dalal
Anila Amrutlal Dalal is Gujarati critic and translator.
Life
Dalal was born on 21 October 1933 in Ahmedabad. She completed SSC in 1949, her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1954, her master's in English in 1956 and later her Ph.D from Gujarat University. She completed an MS degree at the University of Illinois in 1959. She is a retired professor and Head of the Department of English at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Arts College, Ahmedabad[1] where she taught from June 1960 to 1990s.[2][3]
Works
Ravindranath ane Sharatchandrana Katha Sahityama Nari (1979) is two parts work on criticism on females in works of Rabindranath Tagore and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. The first part has seven articles on works of Tagore while second part has five articles on works of Chattopadhyay. Deshantar (1981) is a work on literature of several languages; German, Russian, Hebru, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish and laureates; Ted Hughes, Harold Pinter, Philip Larkin, Bertolt Brecht, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Iris Murdoch.[4] Darpannu Nagar (1987) and Manushi (1993) are her another works of criticism.[2][3]
She translated three Bengali novels of Sunil Gangopadhyay; Radhakrishna (1981), Aranyaman Deen Raat (1983) and Pratidwandwi (1986). She translated Prachhanna (1991) from Bengali. She also translated Mahabharata: Ek Aadhunik Drishtikon (1980) by Buddhadeb Bosu, Maharshi Devendranath Thakur (1980) by Narayan Chaudhari, Laxminath Bejbarua (1985) by Hem Barua. She also translated several essays of Tagore in Ravindra Nibandhmala Part 2 (1976) and more than seventy songs of Tagore in Geet Panchshati (1978). She also translated letters of tagore as Chinna Patra Marmar (1993). She also translated The Later Novels of Iris Murdoch (1993) from English.[2][3]
Awards
She received Gujarati Sahitya Parishad award in 1994, Gujarati Sahitya Academy award in 1994 and Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize in 1993.[2][3]
References
- ^ Sahitya Akademi (2006). Annual Report. Sahitya Akademi. p. 39.
- ^ a b c d Kartik Chandra Dutt (1 January 1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. Sahitya Akademi. p. 261. ISBN 978-81-260-0873-5.
- ^ a b c d "Anila Dalal" (in Gujarati). Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ^ Indian Literature. Sähitya Akademi. 1982. p. 161.
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