Dhiruben Gordhanbhai Patel, (Gujarati: ધીરુબેન પટેલ Hindi: धीरुबेन पटेल); born May 25, 1926 in Vadodara), is a Gujarati novelist, playwright, and translator who won the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for her novel Agantuk.She is a former President of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad and one of her plays, Bhavni Bhavai, has been turned into a film.