Jayant Parmar (born 11 October 1954) is an Indian Urdu language poet known for raisingDalit issues in his poetry.[1]Parmar was born in a poor family. At a young age, he began to paint miniature paintings for a frame maker. Parmar realized that the frame maker had a separate pot for him because he was Dalit. This saddened Parmar and he quit.[2][3]
Parmar taught himself Urdu from a language learning guide at age 30 after he developed an appreciation forUrdu poetry while living in a Muslim-dominated area in the walled city area ofAhmedabad.[3]He has published a number of poetry collections:Aur in 1998,Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein in 2006,Manind in 2008,Antaral in 2010 andGiacometti ke sapne in 2016.[4] Parmar won the 2008Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu forPencil Aur Doosri Nazmein. His work has been translated into Kashmiri, Punjabi, Hindi, Marathi, Bangla, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya and Slovenian.[5][6][7]