About The Author

Pannalal Nanalal Patel (7 May 1912 – 6 April 1989) was a Gujarati author. He was the recipient of the Jnanpith Award in 1985. He was born in an Anjana Chaudhari family at Mandli village, Dungarpur, Rajasthan. He studied up to the sixth grade in Idar, Gujarat and was a classmate of Umashankar Joshi. For a brief period, he worked as a manager in a liquor manufacturing company in Dungarpur. He wrote his first novel while working as a domestic help in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.