Shirish Jagjivandas Panchal (born 7 March 1943)[1] is a Gujarati critic, fiction writer, translator and editor.

He won the 2009 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his criticism Vaat Aapanaa Vivechan-ni.

in the same subject from the same university in 1966, he researched Poetic Criticism under the guidance of Suresh Joshi in 1980.

[4] He wrote a short essay on the novel (1984) under the Sahityaswarup Parichay series edited by Suman Shah.

[6] He edited and published Maniti Anamaniti (1982), 21 selected short stories by Suresh Joshi, with discourse.