Raman Kantilal Soni was born on 7 July 1946 and is a Gujarati literary critic and editor from Gujarat, India.
17 Facts About Raman Soni
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Raman Soni edited Pratyaksha, a literary criticism magazine, from 1991 to 2017.
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Raman Soni has edited several collections of short stories and poetry as well as catalogs and writer-specific collections.
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Raman Soni was born on 7 July 1946 in Chitroda village near Idar.
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Raman Soni completed BA in 1967 from L D Arts College, Ahmedabad and MA in 1969 from Gujarat University.
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Raman Soni served as the professor of Gujarati and later the Head of the Department in Arts-Commerce College in Idar from 1971 to 1989.
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Raman Soni received PhD in 1981 for his thesis Ushnasnu Sarjan Ane Vivechan on Gujarati writer Ushnas.
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Raman Soni joined the Department of Gujarati in Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1989 as a reader and retired as the professor.
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Raman Soni founded and edited Pratyaksha, the only Gujarati literary criticism magazine of its time, from 1991 to its closure in 2017.
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Raman Soni has worked as an honorary secretary and later as the president of Gujarati Adhyapak Sangh.
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Raman Soni was a member of advisory committee of Sahitya Akademi.
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Raman Soni wrote three works on writer-specific criticism: Khabardar on Ardeshar Khabardar, Ushnas: Sarjak Ane Vivechak and Krishnalal Shridharani on Krishnalal Shridharani.
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Raman Soni has edited the collections of short stories and poetry as well as catalogs and writer-specific collections.
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Raman Soni edited poetry collections such as Krishnalal Shridharani's Shridharanina Uttam Kavyo, Gujarati Kavitachayan 1995 and Ushnas's Chahera Ane Rasto.
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Raman Soni edited Premanand's three works: Chandrahasakhyan, Nalakhyan and Okhaharan.
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Raman Soni has edited Avalokan-vishva, a collection of articles on 85 contemporary Indian and foreign language works.
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Raman Soni translated two works in Gujarati: Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window as Tottochan and Peter Bichsel's Kindergeschichten as America Chhe Ne, Chhe Ja Nahi, a collection of children's stories.