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{{Infobox writer 
| name=Gulabdas Harjivandas Broker
| image=GulabdasBrokerPic.jpg
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| birth_date={{birth date|1909|9|20|df=y}}
| birth_place=[[Porbandar]], Gujarat
| death_date={{death date and age|2006|6|10|1909|9|20|df=y}}
| death_place=[[Pune]], [[Maharashtra]]
| occupation= author, journalist
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
| period=
| nationality=Indian
| influenced=
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| awards=[[Padma Shri]] (1991), [[Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak]] (1998)
}}
'''Gulabdas Broker''' was a [[Gujarati language]] author from India. He is primarily known for his short stories and one-act plays in [[Gujarati literature]].<ref name=sj>{{cite book|last=Jagmohan|first=Sarla|title=Selected Stories from Gujarat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ghkJaKIVTsC&pg=PT9|access-date=25 April 2017|date=1 January 2002|publisher=Jaico Publishing House|isbn=978-81-7224-955-7|page=9}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Broker was born at [[Porbandar]] on 20 September 1909. He completed his education in Gujarati and English literature from [[Bombay University]] in 1930. He briefly worked at the [[Bombay Stock Exchange]]. Later he started his writing in 1932 when he was jailed during the [[Satyagraha]] movement. His first short story collection was ''Ane Biji Vato'' ("And Other Talks").<ref name=lit>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA116&dq=gulabdas+broker&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tkxZU-CLO46okgX7-IDADA&ved=0CEoQ6AEwBjgK|pages=116–117|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|first=Nalini Natarajan|last=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1996|isbn=9780313287787}}</ref>

Broker served as the president of [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]] from 1973 to 1974. He died on 10 June 2006 at [[Pune]], [[Maharashtra]].<ref name="oi">{{cite news|url=http://news.oneindia.in/2006/06/11/gujarati-writer-gulabdas-broker-dies-1150036482.html|title=Gujarati writer Gulabdas Broker dies|archive-url=https://archive.is/20130115041905/http://www.webmasteronline.biz/ppersonality.htm|archive-date=2013-01-15|work=One India News|date=2006-06-11|access-date=2014-04-24|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="dg">{{cite news|url=http://deshgujarat.com/2006/12/30/gujarat-lost-range-of-giants-in-2006text-article/|title =Gujarat lost range of giants in 2006|work=DeshGujarat|date=2006-12-30|access-date =2014-04-24}}</ref>

== Works ==
He edited ''Akhandand'', a Gujarati monthly. He wrote large number of short stories, plays, travelogues and autobiography too. Several of them are translated into Hindi, Spanish, German and English.<ref name=oi/><ref name=dg/> He also edited ''Ekanki'', a periodical devoted to one-act plays.<ref name=sj/>

== Awards ==
Broker was awarded the [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award in India in 1992.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=July 21, 2015}}</ref> He was also awarded [[Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak]], the highest literary award in Gujarati language, in 1998. He also received [[Kumar Chandrak]] in 1968.

The Government of Gujarat awarded him the Narsinh Mehta Award.<ref name=oi/><ref name=dg/>
==See also==
* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author|sname=Gulabdas Brokar}}
* {{Gbooks-author|Gulābadāsa Brokara}}

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[[Category:1909 births]]
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[[Category:Writers from Gujarat]]
[[Category:Gujarati-language writers]]
[[Category:People from Porbandar district]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian essayists]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian short story writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights]]
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