Digish Mehta

Digish Nanubhai Mehta (12 July 1934 ― 13 June 2001) was a Gujarati language essayist, novelist and critic from Gujarat, India.

He completed BA in English and Psychology from Dharmendrasinhji College, Rajkot in 1953.

In 1970, he joined School of Languages, Gujarat University as the Reader in English.

His studies in Gujarati and English literature appear in his works of criticism like Pashchatya Navalkatha (Western Novels, 1975, with Harshad Desai), Paridhi (1976) and Ketlik Sahityik Sangnyao (2006).

He translated The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco in Gujarati as Khurshio (2000) and A Defence of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley as Kavitanu Bachavnamu (2000).