1. Raghuveer Chaudhari is a novelist, poet and critic from Gujarat, India.
22 Facts About Raghuveer Chaudhari
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Raghuveer Chaudhari has worked as a columnist for numerous newspapers, such as Sandesh, Janmabhumi, Nirikshaka and Divya Bhaskar.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari was a teacher at the Gujarat University until his retirement in 1998.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977, for his novel trilogy Uparvas.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari received Jnanpith Award, considered to be India's highest literary award, in 2015.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari started his career writing novels and poetry, and later ventured into other forms of literature.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari authored more than 80 books and received numerous literary awards.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari was born on 5 December 1938, in Bapupura village near Gandhinagar, Gujarat, to Dalsinh and Jeeviben, a religious farming couple.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari completed primary and secondary education in Mansa, Gujarat.
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In 1979, Chaudhari received a PhD for his Comparative Study of Hindi and Gujarati Verbal Roots at the same university.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari participated in the Navnirman Movement and opposed the Emergency in the 1970s.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari joined the School of Languages in Gujarat University from 1977 and retired as a professor and the head of Department of Hindi in 1998.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari served for the executive council of Sahitya Akademi from 1998 to 2002.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari was a member of the Press Council of India from 2002 to 2004 and was appointed a jury member of the 25th Indian Film Festival.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari was the president of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 2001 and is currently serving as its trustee.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari has written more than eighty books including novels, poetry, plays and literary criticism.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari chiefly writes in Gujarati but occasionally in Hindi.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari wrote columns in several regional as well as national dailies and journals such as Sandesh, Divya Bhaskar, Janmabhoomi and Nirikshaka.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari's poetry is particularly remarkable for its profundity of thoughts and the meaningful use of images and symbols.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari's essays contains a combination of microscopic observation concerning the art of creative writing and a vivid presentation of thought.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel trilogy Uparvas in 1977.
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Raghuveer Chaudhari received the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1975, Kumar Chandrak in 1965 and Munshi award in 1997.