13 Facts About Jayant Kothari

Jayant Sukhlal Kothari was a Gujarati literary critic from India.

Jayant Kothari was born on 28 January 1930 at Rajkot.

Jayant Kothari completed his primary and secondary education in Rajkot.

Jayant Kothari completed BA in Gujarati and Sanskrit from Dharamsinhji College in 1957 and MA in 1959.

Jayant Kothari obtained Diploma in Linguistics from Gujarat University in 1977.

Jayant Kothari ran cutlery shop in Rajkot from 1949 to 1954 and served as Railway Claims agent.

Jayant Kothari taught at Prakash Arts College, Ahmedabad from 1959 to 1962.

Jayant Kothari taught Gujarati at various colleges of Gujarat Law Society from 1962 to his retirement.

Jayant Kothari's Bharatiya Kavya Siddhant with Natubhai Rajpariya is an important reference work.

Jayant Kothari included study of Longinus in subsequent edition of it.

Jayant Kothari had started a series of studies for students of literature.

Jayant Kothari had briefly served as a president of Gujarati Adhyapak Sangh where he edited and published presidential lectures of past 25 years under Adheet which continued as annual publication ever since.

Jayant Kothari was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998 for his work Vankdekha Vivechano but he did not accept it.