Jaya Mehta

Jaya Vallabhdas Mehta (16 August 1932 – 26 August 2025) was a Gujarati poet, critic and translator from Gujarat, India. She was educated and later worked at SNDT Women's University.

Life Jaya Mehta was born on 16 August 1932 at Koliyak village near Bhavnagar (now in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, India) to Lalitaben and Vallabhdas. She completed P. T. C. and started working as a school teacher. She continued her studies and completed her B.A. in 1954 and her M.A. in 1963 from SNDT Women's University, Mumbai. She later received her Ph.D. . She served as a professor of Gujarati at SNDT Women's University and retired from there. She was a co-editor of Sudha (weekly of Saurashtra Trust) and Vivechan (trimonthly of Department of Gujarati, SNDT Women's University). She wrote columns in Pravasi, Mumbai Samachar and Samkalin dailies. Her poetry collections are Venetian Blind (1978), Ek Divas (1982), Akashma Tarao Choop Chhe (1985), Hospital Poems (1987). Renu and Ek Aa Khare Pandadu (1989) are her novels.

Awards She received the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize for her translations.