Dhiruben Patel
Women writers have played a crucial role in making Gujarati Novel modern in a real sense. Gujarati Literature has given very few outstanding women novelists through its time, and one of such prolific writer is Dhiruben Patel.
Dhiruben Patel has many magnificent creations to pen it under her name; be it Novels, Plays, Short stories, Children’s literature, Poems, Scripts and Essays; but is very well known for her Novels and plays.
It is Dhiruben Patel who has presented social realism with psychoanalytical insight in her novels.
She is a person of the opinion that writers have some social responsibility. She says; “Pleasure is the prime aim of literary creation but a writer cannot escape from his/her social responsibility because their writing is not bound to be in four walls only, it has a universal significance”.