Jayant Parmar (b. 1954), well-known Urdu poet, artist and calligrapher, writes both in Urdu and Gujarati. He has published seven collection of Urdu poems. Aur (1999), Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein (2006), Maanind (2007), Antraal (2010), Nazm Yaani (2013), Giacometti Ke Sapne (2016) and Nuqta Aur Doosri Nazmein (2019); recipient of Sahitya Academi Award in 2009 for Pencil Aur Doosri Nazmein, Bhasha Bharti Samman in 2006 for Aur, Gujarat Sahitya Academi Award, Bhartiya Dalit Sahitya Academi (2002) and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jeevan Gaurav Puraskaar (2020) etc. His works have been translated into Hindi, English, Punjabi, Assamese, Telugu, Bangla, Kashmiri, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali, Marathi and also in foreign languages, like Slovenian and Spanish.