Ghanshyam Desai
Ghanshyam Occhavlal Desai was a Gujarati short story writer and editor from Gujarat, India.
Life
Ghanshyam Desai was born on 4 June 1934 in Devgadh Baria where he completed primary and secondary education. He went to Bombay and studied B. A. in Gujarati in 1954. He worked as a teacher at Gurukul High School, Songadh for two years. In 1960, he completed M. A. in Gujarati.He worked as an assistant editor of Samarpan magazine from 1962 to 1969 and later as an editor from 1970. When Samarpan merged with Navneet and became Navneet Samarpan, he became its editor in 1980 and worked there until retirement.
Desai married Urmi Desai, a Gujarati writer and linguist, in 1965. He died on 29 April 2010.