Born on 30th June 1937, Mr. Joshi has at his credit 152 books so far in Gujarati language. He started his literary career with publication of a short story in 1954. His 52 books are translated and published in Hindi, Marathi, Bangla, Oriya, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannad, English and German languages. His writing covers different areas of the life of man kind i.e. with social and spiritual background, the research work on Lord Krishna, Lord Buddha, epics like Mahabharat and Ramayan etc. He has carved a new path in the field of biographical novels viz. Gujarati poet Narmad, Mahatma Gandhi and his son Harilal, Mohmad Ali Jinnah, Rabindranath Tagore, Lord Buddha and also on Sardar Patel.
His novel ‘Mahatma vs. Gandhi’ was adapted as play and also as movie in different languages including English.
On the eve of the completion of his 75th Birth Anniversary, he was felicitated in a function held in Mumbai wherein his 15 books were released in 6 different Indian languages including English which is recognized as a National record by the Limca Book of records.
He has edited translation of complete ‘Mahabharat’ in Gujarati language in 20 volumes.
At present he is occupied with reading and writing. He has also floated a Trust–Gujarati Sahitya Pradan Pratishthan with an objective of publishing outstanding Gujarati books in different languages. He lives in Mumbai.
जन्म : 30 जून, 1937 को भावनगर, गुजरात में।
श्री दिनकर जोशी का रचना-संसार काफी व्यापक है। तैतालीस उपन्यास, ग्यारह कहानी-संग्रह, दस संपादित पुस्तकें, ‘महाभारत’ व ‘रामायण’ विषयक नौ अध्ययन ग्रंथ और लेख, प्रसंग चित्र, अन्य अनूदित पुस्तकों सहित अब तक उनकी कुल एक सौ पच्चीस पुस्तकें प्रकाशित हो चुकी हैं। उन्हें गुजरात राज्य सरकार के पाँच पुरस्कार, गुजराती साहित्य परिषद् का ‘उमा स्नेह रश्मि पारितोषिक’ तथा गुजरात थियोसोफिकल सोसाइटी का ‘मैडम ब्लेवेट्स्की अवार्ड’ प्रदान किए गए हैं।
गांधीजी के पुत्र हरिलाल के जीवन पर आधारित उपन्यास ‘प्रकाशनो पडछायो’ हिंदी तथा मराठी में अनूदित। श्रीकृष्ण के जीवन पर आधारित दो ग्रंथ—‘श्याम एक बार आपोने आंगणे’ (उपन्यास) हिंदी, मराठी, तेलुगु व बँगला भाषा में अनूदित; ‘कृष्णं वन्दे जगद्गुरुम्’ हिंदी भाषा में तथा द्रोणाचार्य के जीवन पर आधारित उपन्यास ‘अमृतयात्रा’ हिंदी व मराठी में अनूदित हो चुका है। ‘35 अप 36 डाउन’ उपन्यास पर गुजराती में ‘राखना रमकडा’ फिल्म निर्मित।
