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{{Infobox writer
| name = Heera Pathak
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| birth_name = Heeraben Kalyanray Mehta
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1916|4|12}}
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1995|9|15|1916|4|12}}
| death_place = Mumbai
| occupation = Poet, literary critic, professor
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
| nationality = Indian
| education = PhD
| alma_mater = [[SNDT Women's University]]
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| notableworks =
* ''Apanu Vivechansahitya'' (1939)
* ''Paraloke Patra'' (1978)
| spouse = [[Ramnarayan V. Pathak]]
| children =
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| awards = {{plainlist|
* [[Narmad Suvarna Chandrak]] (1968-1972)
* [[Uma-Snehrashmi Prize]] (1970-1971)
* [[Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak]] (1974)
* [[Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar]] (1995)
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'''Heera Ramnarayan Pathak''', born '''Heera Kalyanray Mehta''', was a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] poet and literary critic. She married [[Ramnarayan V. Pathak]], a Gujarati writer.

== Life ==
She was born on 12 April 1916 in [[Mumbai]]. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1936 from [[SNDT Women's University|S.N.D.T University]] with Gujarati as her main subject. She received a Ph.D in 1938 for her research work ''Aapnu Vivechan Sahitya'' (History of Our Literary Criticism), which was published as a book in 1939. She was a professor of Gujarati at S.N.D.T University from 1938 to 1972. She was the president of Gujarati Adhyapak Sangh for 1970–1971 and also was vice-president of [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]] for a few years.<ref name="Gujarati Sahitya Parishad">{{cite web | title=હીરાબેન પાઠક, ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય પરિષદ | website=Hiraben Pathak, Gujarati Sahitya Parishad | url=http://www.gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/photo-gallery/sahitya-sarjako/Hiraben-Pathak.html | language=gu | accessdate=2017-03-09}}</ref>

She married as the second wife of Gujarati writer [[Ramnarayan V. Pathak]], who predeceased her on 21 August 1955. The marriage was childless.<ref name="Gujaratilexicon.com">{{cite web | title=Beyond The Beaten Track - Ramnarayan Pathak | website=Gujaratilexicon.com | url=http://www.gujaratilexicon.com/poems/view/6 | language=gu | accessdate=2017-03-09}}</ref> She died of cancer on 15 September 1995 at Mumbai.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=વિદુષી લેખિકા હીરાબહેન પાઠકનું અવસાન|trans-title=Death note of Heeraben Pathak|magazine=[[Shabdasrishti]]|date=October–November 1995|page=28|issn=2319-3220}}</ref>

== Works ==
She published her first critical work, ''Aapnu Vivechan Sahitya'', her doctoral thesis, in 1939. In this work, she examines the critic from two angles. First, she elaborates the point of view embodied in the critical works of a particular critic, and then she analyses how that particular point of view has contributed to the development of Gujarati literary criticism. Her two other critically acclaimed works are ''Kavyabhavan'' (Critical appreciation of poetry, 1961) and ''Vidrati'' (1974). Her ''Paraloke Patra'' (Letters written to another world), published in 1978, is a collection of twelve letters written in verse, addressed to her deceased husband Ramnarayan Pathak. Written in the Gujarati metre of ''[[vanveli]]'', these letters are [[elegiac]] in nature. Another work, ''Gavaksha Deep'', published in 1979, is a collection of articles on [[Sanskrit]] poetry.<ref name="NatarajanNelson1996">{{cite book|author1=Nalini Natarajan|author2=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA124|accessdate=8 March 2017|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28778-7|page=124}}</ref><ref name="Gujaratilexicon.com"/><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Jhaveri |first=Manju |editor-last=Lal |editor-first=Mohan |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature |url= |access-date= |edition=4th |date=2007 |publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]] |volume=IV |location=New Delhi |isbn=((81-260-1003-1)) |pages=3129 }}</ref>

== Recognition ==
She received the [[Narmad Suvarna Chandrak]] of 1968–1972 and the [[Uma-Snehrashmi Prize]] of 1970–1971 for ''Parloke Patra''. She was also awarded the [[Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak]] in 1974 and the [[Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar]] in 1995.<ref name="Gujarati Sahitya Parishad"/>

==See also==
* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]

==References==
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