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"name": "Narmadashankar Mehta",
"bio": "\nDewan Bahadur Narmadashankar Devshankar Mehta (23 August 1871 – 21 March 1939) was a Gujarati writer, historian of philosophy, and administrator from British India. He was a student of Anandshankar Dhruv, and a nephew of Balashankar Kantharia.\nMehta was born in Sathodara Nagar Brahmin family on 23 August 1871 in Ahmedabad, to his parents Devshankar, a revenue officer, and Rukshmani (Rukmini).",
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"bio": "\nNavalram Jagnnath Trivedi (1895–1944) was a Gujarati writer, critic and editor. He served as a secretary of Gujarat Sahitya Sabha for twenty years.\nTrivedi was born 11 October 1895 in Wadhwan in Audichya Sahastra Brahmin family. He completed schooling at Wadhwan Camp and passed his matriculation in 1914. After earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1920, he started his career as a professor at Lalshankar Umiyashankar Gujarati Mahila Pathashala. In 1926, he completed his Master of Arts. He served as a secretary of Gujarat Sahitya Sabha for twenty years.",
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"name": "Nayan Desai",
"bio": "Nayan Desai (born 22 February 1946) is a Gujarati language poet from Gujarat, India. His significant work includes Manas Urfe Reti Urfe Dariyo (1979), Mukam Post Manas (1983), and Dhoop Ka Saya (ghazals in Urdu). He received the Kalapi Award in 2013 and the Kavishwar Dalpatram Award in 2016.\nDesai was born on 22 February 1946 in Kathodara, a town now in the Surat district, to Harshadray and Indumatiben. His family belonged to Valod. After completing his SSC in 1965, he worked in a diamond factory for 14 years. In 1980, he joined Gujarat Mitra, a Gujarati daily, as a sub-editor. He has retired.\nHe married Shashi in 1990.",
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"bio": "\nNoor Mohammad Allah Rakha Dekhaiya (Gujarati: નૂરમહંમદ અલારખ દેખૈયા), better known by his takhallus Nazir Dekhaiya (Gujarati: નાઝિર દેખૈયા), was a Gujarati ghazal poet from Gujarat, India. His ghazal collections include Tushar (1962), Nazirni Ghazalo (part 1-2) and Soona Sadan (2006).\nHe was born on 13 February 1921 in Bhavnagar to Allah Rakha Bhai and his second wife Dhan Bai. His father was a Bandmaster. He lost his parents during his childhood. He studied until 4th standard. He learned Clarinet and started to work in family-owned India Abhu Band as a bandmaster. His brothers died soon after and he became responsible for the rest of his family. In order to strengthen his finances, he joined the District Panchayat Board, Bhavnagar in 1956 as a peon where he served until retirement.",
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"name": "Nazir Mansuri",
"bio": "\nNazir Mansuri is a Gujarati language novelist and short story writer. His stories were translated by Sachin Ketkar and Hemang Desai. He is a professor at a college in Navsari.\nNazir Mansuri was born in 1965. He received Katha Award for creative fiction in 1997 for his short story “Bhuthar”. In 1999, he received Sanskruti Pratishthan Award. His story “Bhuthar” was selected for The Best of the Nineties’ Fiction brought out by Katha Foundation, Delhi.",
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"bio": "\nNanalal Dalpatram Kavi (16 March 1877 – 9 January 1946) was an Indian writer and poet in Gujarati language of Gujarati literature. His name is sometimes spelled as Nhanalal.\nNanalal was born on 16 March 1877 in Ahmedabad as the fourth son of Dalpatram, who settled there since 1848 after migrating from Wadhwan. Dalpatram was popular and admired as poet that his ancestral surname Tarvadi (Trivedi) was gradually dropped and he came to be generally known as Kavi (poet). Nanalal and his descendants then adopted permanently Kavi as their surname.",
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"name": "Neeta Ramaiya",
"bio": "\nNeeta Ramaiya is Gujarati poet, children's writer and translator from India.\nNeeta Ramaiya was born on 14 July 1941 at Morbi (now in Gujarat, India). She matriculated in 1957. She completed her B. A. in English in 1960 and M. A. in 1962. She taught at M. G. S. M. College, Matunga, Bombay (now Mumbai) from 1962 to 1966. She also worked as a Director of Centre for Canadian Studies, SNDT Women's University and also served as Professor Emeritus.",
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"name": "Nimit Oza",
"bio": "\nNimit Oza (born 3 October 1981) is an Indian writer, columnist, and doctor from Gujarat, India. An urologist by profession, he is known for his novel Chromosome XY (2019) and Pappa ni Girlfriend (2020). He won the 2020 Darshak Award for Chromosome XY.\nNimit Oza was born on 3 October 1981 in Porbandar to Nikhil Oza and Harshana Oza. He completed his schooling from Dakshinamurti Vinay Mandir, Bhavnagar in 1999. He completed MBBS from Government Medical College, Bhavnagar, and received DNB in Urology from Pune.",
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