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Following is the list of recipients of Sahitya Akademi Awards for their works written in Marathi. As of 2022, the award consists of an engraved copper plaque, a shawl and prize money of ₹ 1 lakh (US$1,200). [2] Irawati Karve was the first woman winner of this award.
In fact, two modern Indian languages (Kannada and Marathi) use 'kadambari' as a generic term for a romance or a novel. Apart from the Kadambari, Banabhatta is also the author of Harshacharita, a biography of his patron king Harshavardhana. It is this circumstance which allows one to date the author with a reasonable degree of certainty.
This article contains a list of Marathi writers arranged in the English alphabetical order of the writers' last names. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Narayan Phadke was born to Sitaram Phadke and his wife in the town of Karjat, Ahmadnagar district in 1894. He had a Master of Arts degree from Bombay University.In later years as a writer, Phadke was commonly known by his first and middle initials in Marathi, 'Na Si'.
Bhalchandra Nemade was born on 27 May 1938 in the village of Sangavi in the Khandesh region of Maharashtra.After doing his matriculation, he moved to Pune, and received his BA from Fergusson College in Pune and MA in Linguistics from Deccan College in Pune and English Literature from the Mumbai University in Mumbai.
Yadav was one of the early writers of Marathi Gramin Sahitya (literature pertaining to rural life in Maharashtra). His novel "Zombi" (झोंबी) (meaning "fight against all odds") won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990. The novel is an autobiographical story of a young boy, his loving mother, his life of utter poverty, and his eagerness to ...
In his preface to Yayati, Khandekar states that he was drawn to the original story from the Mahabharata at multiple levels, and for many reasons. [1] The resulting novel is a modern retelling of the story of the Hindu king, who enjoyed all the pleasures of the flesh for a millennium only to realise how empty of meaning was his pursuit of desire.
Sumati Kshetramade (7 March 1913 – 1997) was an India Marathi writer [1] from Maharashtra. [2] [3] A major theme of her novels is the exploitation of women. [4] Kshetramade was a physician by profession.