Sharifa Vijaliwala (born 4 August 1962) is an Indian Gujarati language writer, critic, translator and editor from Surat, Gujarat, India.

Sharifa Vijliwala was born to her parents, Kasambhai and Hajaraben, on 4 August 1962 in Amargadh, a village in Shihor, in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat, India.

In 1985, she graduated from the Faculty of Technology and Engineering, at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda earning a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree.

[1] During her literature studies, she passed the National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) examination and secured a Junior Research Fellowship.

Since 2013, Vijliwala has been a professor and head at the Department of Gujarati, at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University in Surat.

Her translations of Partition-oriented literature include Manto ni Vartao (22 Urdu stories by Saadat Hasan Manto), Vibhajan ni Vartao (Indian stories based on the Partition), Intizar Husain ni Vartao (18 Urdu stories by Intizar Hussain)[6] Jene lahor Nathi Joyu E Janmyo J Nathi (A play by Asghar Wajahat), Sukato Vad (Manzoor Ahtesham's Hindi novel), Pinjar (A novel by Amrita Pritam), Basti (Intizar Hussain's Urdu novel), Adha Gaon (A novel by Rahi Masoom Raza) and Mahabhoj (Mannu Bhandari's political novel).

She also completed a research project Analytical and Comparative Study of Literature Based on Partition Theme funded by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of New Delhi.