Shirish Jagjivandas Panchal, (Hindi: ????? ?????; Gujarati: ????? ????? born 7 March 1943 in Vadodara), is a Gujarati critic, fiction writer, translator and editor who won the 2009 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his criticism Vaat Aapanaa Vivechan-ni.
He done his Ph.D under Gujarati writer Suresh Joshi.
He taught Gujarati language and literature at M.
S.
University, Baroda.
He edited Etad, a Gujarati quarterly.His Vaidehee Etle Ja Vaidehee is an experimental novel, which tell a love-story of Kirat and Vaidehee.