Shrikant Vallabhdas Shah (29 December 1936 – 22 January 2020) was a Gujarati poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright from Gujarat, India, mainly known for his experimental novel Asti (1966).

He was born on 29 December 1936 in Bantva, a town in Junagadh district of Gujarat, to Vallabhdas and Vasantbahen.

[1] He married Ruta Shah on 9 November 1963, and they had a daughter and a son.

In 2003, his poetry collection Ek Manasnu Nagar was published with the preface written by Gujarati author Niranjan Bhagat.

[4] The novel does not have any plot and is centred around an unnamed individual addressed as “Te” (lit.