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| birth_name = Bhanubhai/Laxminarayan Ranchhodbhai Vyas<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1913|11|13}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Rajkot]], [[Rajkot State]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1970|10|23|1913|11|13}}<br />
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| occupation = Poet, story writer<br />
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'''Swapnastha''' (13 November 1913 – 23 October 1970) was a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] poet and story writer. His works were influenced by [[communism]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
'''Bhanubhai/Laxminarayan Ranchhodbhai Vyas''' was born on 13 November 1913 in [[Rajkot]] (now in [[Gujarat]]). He [[matriculated]] and worked with [[Zandu Realty|Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Limited]] from 1936 to 1944. In 1948, he moved [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai) and worked with ''Asopalav'', ''Nootan Gujarat'' and ''Hindustan'' publications.<ref name="AGSI2" /> Later he worked as a translator with the Publicity Department of USLR.<ref name="AGSI2" />{{clarify|date=May 2020}} He died on 23 October 1970.<ref name="AGSI2">{{cite book|last=Brahmabhatt|first=Prasad|title=અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઈતિહાસ (ગાંધીયુગ અને અનુગાંધી યુગ)|publisher=Parshwa Publication|year=2007|isbn=|location=Ahmedabad|pages=170–171|language=gu|script-title=gu:Arvachin Gujarati Sahityano Itihas (Gandhiyug Ane Anugandhi Yug)|trans-title=History of Modern Gujarati Literature (Gandhi Era & Post-Gandhi Era)}}{{ISBN missing|date=September 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-b1jAAAAMAAJ&q=swapnastha|title=The Indian P.E.N.|publisher=P.E.N. All-India Centre.|year=1970|isbn=|volume=36|location=Bombay|pages=343}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
Swapnastha was a pseudonym of Vyas. He was an experimental and progressive poet who was influenced by [[communism]] and [[Karl Marx]].<ref name="AGSI2"/><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last1=Natarajan|first1=Nalini|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&q=swapnastha&pg=PA116|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|last2=Nelson|first2=Emmanuel Sampath|date=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28778-7|location=|pages=116|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c5JjAAAAMAAJ&q=swapnastha|title=Indian Literature|date=1991|publisher=Sahitya Akademi.|isbn=|location=|pages=26|language=en}}</ref> He also came under the influence of [[Rabindranath Tagore]]. Love is the main theme of his poetry.<ref name="Lal1992">{{cite book|editor-last=Lal|editor-first=Mohan|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-1221-3|pages=4251–4252}}</ref><br />
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He had written some epic poems.<ref name="AGSI2" /> His poems were imaginative and original.<ref name=":1" /> ''Achala'' (1937) is an epic tragic poem in Shikharini metre. His another epic poem is ''Vinashna Ansho, Maya'' (1938). His another epic poem ''Dharati'' (1946) has a story of human civilization in total 1038 stanzas in Prithvi metre.<ref name="AGSI2"/><br />
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His ''Ajampani Madhuri'' (1941) has more than hundred sonnets, songs and metrical poems. His ''Ravanhaththo'' (1942) has poems influenced by [[bhajan]]s and folksongs and depicts social inequality and exploitation. ''Lal Surya'' (1968) has influences of communism. ''Chirvirah'' (1973) was published posthumously.<ref name="AGSI2"/><br />
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''Dinrat'' (1946) and ''Dhunina Pan'' (1950) are his collections of short stories depicting poverty, exploitation and inequality. ''Shodh'' (1937) is a novella written under pseudonym Mohan Shukla. ''J'hanavi'' (1953) is a novel depicting a love story of a two communists in backdrop of 1942 [[Quit India Movement]].<ref name="AGSI2"/><br />
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''Yugpurush Gandhi'' (1943), ''Poonamna Poyana'' (1953) and ''Palatato Jamano'' (1957) are his works of translation. He coedited two works on [[Marxism]]; ''Sahitya Ane Sanskar'' (1944) and ''Sahitya Ane Pragati'' I-II (1940, 1945). ''Marxvad Mool Ane Saratatva'' also has Marxist philosophy.<ref name="AGSI2"/><br />
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== Recognition ==<br />
Swapnastha was awarded the Soviet Land Nehru Award for 1966.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]<br />
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[[Category:1913 births]]<br />
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