Harshadev Madhav (born 20 October 1954) is a Sanskrit and Gujarati language poet and writer who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit in 2006 for his work of poetry, Tava Sparshe Sparshe.

While working in a telegraph office in Palitana, he completed his Master of Arts in 1981 with Sanskrit from Saurashtra University with first rank, and subsequently became a lecturer at H. K. Arts College, Ahmedabad.

[3] He received Ph.D for his research work " Mukhya Puranoma Shap Ane Teno Prabhav" (Curse Element And Its Influence In Major Puranas).

[6] He is credited with introducing Japanese Haiku and Tanka, and Korean Sijo, into Sanskrit poetry.

[2] Samir Kumar Datta puts in him the category of modernist or revolutionary Sanskrit poets, and says:[7] Harshadev Madhav is a modern poet in true sense of the term.