Praful Nandshankar Dave (5 March 1931 – 26 September 2009) was a Gujarati writer.
Dave was born on 5 March 1931 in Baroda (now Vadodara), Gujarat, India .
He completed his primary and secondary school education in Nadiad and started attending the university in 1949.
He served as the research associate in Saint Louis Mental Hospital, United States in 1963.
He served as the Reader from 1964 to 1972 and as the Professor from 1972 to 1974 in Mysore Regional College of Education, India.
His collections of stories include Agantuk (1969), Tarangininu Swapna (1971), Tahomatdar (1980), Kalrakshas (1999) and Chhellu Farman (2005).