Jitesh Donga is Gujarati author, blogger and novelist, famous for his highly acclaimed novel "Vishwamanav". Born in a small village named Sarambhada in Amreli district of Gujarat, Jitesh spent most of his childhood-life in his village helping his farmer parents.
He published his debut novel 'VIshwamanav' at the age of 24. 

After completing his primary schooling in his village and secondary schooling in Rajkot, Jitesh started writing his novel when he was in 7th semester of B.Tech (Electrical engineering) at Charotar University of science & technology, Anand, Gujarat. He completed the novel after two years. After completion of his graduation, Jitesh choose to quit his job as an Engineer and to explore other jobs. For next two years he did 14 various jobs including being Night-watchman at ATM, working night shifts at call centers, Waiter at CCD, Service engineer, Insurance surveyor, and Book fair manager. During these two years he worked on his debut book Vishwamanav in his free time. 
When jitesh approached various Gujarati literature publishers for publication of Vishwamanav, the book was rejected by almost 14 various publishers. Later jitesh states "Almost all the publisher denied me because book was dark and vulgar. They were afraid to publish it! And I loved that!"

After facing so many rejections, out of spite of Gujarati publishing industry Jitesh put the book online on free of cost. He also put the PDF of this book on his blog and shared it in Facebook and Twitter. He also requested the readers to share their reviews on Social media. Within a month of its launch, the book received extremely good response with hundreds of reviews. Later, with the requests from so many readers Vishwamanav was accepted for paperback publishing. The book launch was held during GLF- Gujarat literature festival at Cept University, Ahmedabad. Book was launched by well known Gujarati columnist Jay Vasavada and Dipak Soliya.