Ashokpuri Goswami

Poet and Writer

Speaker

Ashokpuri Goswami is a Gujarati poet andwriter from Gujarat, India.  He completed B.Sc. from V. P. College, Sardar Patel University but dropped out due to poor financial condition. He started working as a farmer at his village.  

 

He wrote his first poem while studying S.S.C.His ghazals were first published in Kavilok, and later he published in other Gujarati literary magazines including Kumar, Shabdasrishti, Vi and Navneet Samarpan.

Arthat and Kaling  are his collections of ghazals. Mool, his first novel was published in 1990,followedby Koovo (1994), Nibhado , Vedh (1999) Ame (2015)and Gajra. Ravarvaat (1994) is an autobiographical work. He has edited story collection, Vinela Moti (1995). He has edited Setu (2003), a literary magazine published for non-resident Indians, and Rooplabdhi (2005) published by Charotar Vidya Mandal on occasion of session held by Gujarati Sahitya Parishad. He has also translated Dilip Ramesh's Hindi play, Khand Khand Agni.