Suman Shah, the Glossary
Suman Shah (Gujarati:સુમન શાહ) is a Gujarati language critic, short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor and translator from Gujarat, India.[1]
Table of Contents
45 relations: A Gentle Creature, A Slight Ache, Ahmedabad, Anton Chekhov, Bachelor of Commerce, Bodeli, Criticism, Dabhoi, Essay, Existentialism, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gujarat, Gujarat University, Gujarat Vidyapith, Gujarati language, Gujarati literature, Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, Harold Pinter, India, Kapadvanj, List of Gujarati-language writers, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Master of Arts, Modernism, Novel, Post-structuralism, Postcolonial literature, Postmodernism, Premanand Suvarna Chandrak, Sahitya Akademi Award, Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar, Samuel Beckett, Sanskrit literature, Shabdasrishti, Short story, Sonnet, Structural linguistics, Suresh Joshi, Surrealism, Three Sisters (play), University Grants Commission (India), University of Pennsylvania, Vadodara, Vadodara district, Waiting for Godot.
- Academic staff of Gujarat University
- People from Vadodara district
- Translators of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Gentle Creature
"A Gentle Creature" (translit), sometimes also translated as "The Meek One", is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky written in November 1876.
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A Slight Ache
A Slight Ache is a tragicomic play written by Harold Pinter in 1958 and first published by Methuen in London in 1961.
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Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad (is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per the 2011 population census) makes it the fifth-most populous city in India, and the encompassing urban agglomeration population estimated at 6,357,693 is the seventh-most populous in India.
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer.
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Bachelor of Commerce
A Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) is an undergraduate degree in business, management, economics or accounting, awarded in Canada, Australia, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland, New Zealand, Ghana, South Africa, Myanmar, Egypt, and additional Commonwealth countries.
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Bodeli
Bodeli is a town and taluka in Chhota Udaipur district in the eastern part of the state of Gujarat, India.
Criticism
Criticism is the construction of a judgement about the negative or positive qualities of someone or something.
Dabhoi
Dabhoi is a town and a municipality in the Vadodara district in the state of Gujarat, India.
Essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.
Existentialism
Existentialism is a family of views and forms of philosophical inquiry that explores the issue of human existence.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Ѳедоръ Михайловичъ Достоевскій.|Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy|p.
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Gujarat
Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.
Gujarat University
The Gujarat University is a public state university located at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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Gujarat Vidyapith
Gujarat Vidyapith is a deemed university in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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Gujarati language
Gujarati (label) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people.
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Gujarati literature
The history of Gujarati literature (ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય) may be traced to 1000 AD, and this literature has flourished since then to the present.
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Gujarati Sahitya Parishad
Gujarati Sahitya Parishad is a literary organisation for the promotion of Gujarati literature located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
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Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Kapadvanj
Kapadvanj (Karpat – Vanjiyam or "The Land of Textile") is a town as well as one of the Taluka of the Kheda district in the Gujarat, India.
List of Gujarati-language writers
Well known laureates of Gujarati literature are Hemchandracharya, Narsinh Mehta, Mirabai, Akho, Premanand Bhatt, Shamal Bhatt, Dayaram, Dalpatram, Narmad, Govardhanram Tripathi, Mahatma Gandhi, K. M. Munshi, Umashankar Joshi, Suresh Joshi, Pannalal Patel and Rajendra Keshavlal Shah. Suman Shah and List of Gujarati-language writers are Gujarati-language writers.
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Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, formerly Baroda College, is a public university in the city of Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
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Master of Arts
A Master of Arts (Magister Artium or Artium Magister; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries.
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Modernism
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.
Novel
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.
Post-structuralism
Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism and considers them to be constituted by broader systems of power.
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Postcolonial literature
Postcolonial literature is the literature by people from formerly colonized countries, originating from all continents except Antarctica.
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Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break with modernism.
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Premanand Suvarna Chandrak
The Premanand Suvarna Chandrak or Premanand Gold Medal is a literary honour awarded every two years, though sometimes annually, to an established Gujarati writer in order to recognize and promote excellence in Gujarati writing.
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Sahitya Akademi Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the 8th Schedule to the Indian constitution as well as in English and Rajasthani language.
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Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar
The Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar (Gujarati: સાહિત્ય ગૌરવ પુરસ્કાર), also known as Sahitya Gaurav Award, is a literary honour in Gujarat, India.
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Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. Suman Shah and Samuel Beckett are modernist writers.
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Sanskrit literature
Sanskrit literature broadly comprises all literature in the Sanskrit language.
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Shabdasrishti
Shabdasrishti (World of Words), the journal of the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, is a Gujarati literary magazine, published on the fifth of every month.
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Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction.
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Sonnet
The term sonnet derives from the Italian word sonetto (from the Latin word sonus). It refers to a fixed verse poetic form, traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme.
Structural linguistics
Structural linguistics, or structuralism, in linguistics, denotes schools or theories in which language is conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating semiotic system whose elements are defined by their relationship to other elements within the system.
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Suresh Joshi
Suresh Hariprasad Joshi was an Indian novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, translator, editor and academic in the Gujarati language. Suman Shah and Suresh Joshi are 20th-century Indian translators, Gujarati-language writers, Indian editors, Indian literary critics and Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Gujarati.
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Surrealism
Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.
Three Sisters (play)
Three Sisters (translit) is a play by the Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov.
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University Grants Commission (India)
University Grants Commission (UGC; ISO: Viśvavidyālaya Anudāna Āyōga) is a statutory body under Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India.
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Vadodara
Vadodara, also known as Baroda, is a major city in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Vadodara district
Vadodara district, also known as Baroda district, is situated in the eastern part of the state of Gujarat in western India.
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Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives.
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See also
Academic staff of Gujarat University
- Bellikoth Raghunath Shenoy
- Bholabhai Patel
- Dalsukh Dahyabhai Malvania
- Dhiru Parikh
- Harivallabh Bhayani
- Hasu Yajnik
- Himanshu Pandya
- Kaajal Oza Vaidya
- Kumarpal Desai
- Mafat Oza
- Makrand Mehta
- Parimal Trivedi
- Prahalad Chunnilal Vaidya
- Raghuveer Chaudhari
- Ramanlal Joshi
- Subhash Chandra Lakhotia
- Suman Shah
- Umashankar Joshi
People from Vadodara district
- Balkrishna Khanderao Shukla
- Balmukund Dave
- Chandrakant Topiwala
- Chimanbhai Patel
- Dada Bhagwan
- Hariprasad Vyas
- Ketan Inamdar
- Kripalvananda
- Narayan Satham
- Pramukh Swami Maharaj
- Ramanlal Desai
- Ramsinh Rathwa
- Rashid Meer
- Satyajitsinh Gaekwad
- Suhas Pandurang Sukhatme
- Suman Shah
- Ushnas
- Vivek Kane
Translators of Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Ann Dunnigan
- C. J. Hogarth
- Chandra Prakash Deval
- Constance Garnett
- David Magarshack
- David McDuff
- Fred Whishaw
- Juho August Hollo
- Lena Milman
- Michael Scammell
- Natalie Duddington
- Oliver Ready
- Rafael Cansinos-Asséns
- Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
- Suman Shah
- Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu