Vijayray Kalyanray Vaidya was a Gujarati critic, biographer and essayist.
14 Facts About Vijayray Vaidya
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Vijayray Vaidya edited several magazines and wrote works of criticism, biography and essays.
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Vijayray Vaidya was born on 7 April 1897 in Bhavnagar.
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Vijayray Vaidya served as a cashier in Sir Lallubhai Shamaldas Bank, Bombay from 1920 to 1921.
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Vijayray Vaidya served as an editor of Hindustan Weekly of Bombay and a subeditor of daily from 1921 to 1922.
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Vijayray Vaidya served with Sahitya Sansad from 1922 to 1924.
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Vijayray Vaidya started Kaumudi, a quarterly and later a monthly.
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Vijayray Vaidya presided over the criticism department of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in Surat in 1965.
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Vijayray Vaidya edited Rohini in last period of life but had little success.
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Vijayray Vaidya had long career of literary journalism and criticism.
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Vijayray Vaidya's Sahityadarshan is about theory of literary criticism and Jui ane Ketaki is about applied criticism.
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Vijayray Vaidya's Khuski Ane Tari is a travelogue of his visit to Karachi and Rangoon.
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Vijayray Vaidya could publish only first volume of his work, Sahitya Priyano Sathi.
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Vijayray Vaidya was awarded Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1931 and Narmad Suvarna Chandrak in 1955.