Sharifa Vijaliwala

Sharifa Vijaliwala (born 4 August 1962) is an Indian Gujarati language writer, critic, translator and editor from Surat, Gujarat, India. She is a recipient of a 2018 Sahitya Akademi Award for Vibhajanni Vyatha, a collection of critical essays in Gujarati, and has won several Gujarat Sahitya Akademi awards for her literary work.

Biography Sharifa Vijliwala was born to her parents, Kasambhai and Hajaraben, on 4 August 1962 in Amargadh, a village in Shihor, in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat, India. She completed her primary education there, and passed her secondary and higher secondary board exams in 1978 and 1981 respectively. In 1985, she graduated from the Faculty of Technology and Engineering, at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda earning a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree. from 1991 to 2013. Since 2013, Vijliwala has been a professor and head at the Department of Gujarati, at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University in Surat.

Works Vijliwala is a translator, critic and editor. She wrote her first article "Mara Bapu", published in Pitrutarpan compiled by Joseph Macwan in 1988.

She has translated several literary works. She began literary translation in 1994 translating the best short stories of western literature. Ananya (15 foreign stories), Anusang (10 foreign stories), Tran Katha (Stories of Stefan Zweig), Vachan (Kannada Vachanas, co-translator), Gandhi ni Kedie (A brief translation of Sarla Behn's Autobiography) are her translations. She has made a significant contribution as a translator of literature based on the Partition of India. Her translations of Partition-oriented literature include Manto ni Vartao (22 Urdu stories by Saadat Hasan Manto), Vibhajan ni Vartao (Indian stories based on the Partition), Intizar Husain ni Vartao (18 Urdu stories by Intizar Hussain) In 1988, she received the Pranjivan Charitable Trust Prize (State Level). She secured the first rank in the university and completed post graduation with a Kantawala Gold Medal. for her translation Jene Lahor Nathi Joyu E Janmyo J Nathi and 2018 Sahitya Akademi Award for Vibhajanni Vyatha, a collection of critical essays in Gujarati based on the partition of India. She has also received Soham Award (2016) by Navneet Samarpan, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and Sadbhavana Puraskar (2017) by the Sadbhavana Trust, Mahuva.