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Vasant Gowarikar - Indian space scientist & was awarded Padma Bhushan in the year 2008. Amol Dighe - Physics professor at TIFR, awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for science and technology. Rohini Godbole - Part of the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG), for the International Linear Collider in the European research lab, CERN .
Marathi science fiction has a rich heritage and a wide enthusiastic readership. In the early 20th century, Marathi science fiction work was more aligned to fantasy. After 1950, several writers started translating classic English science fiction literature and also contributed independent work. [citation needed]
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.
Arun Kolatkar – poet of 20th century Marathi poetry, His poetry had an influence on modern Marathi poets. His first book of English poetry, Jejuri, is a collection 31 poems pertaining to a visit of his to a religious place with the same name Jejuri in Maharashtra; the book won Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1977. [1]
Bal Phondke (born 22 April 1939) is the pen name of Dr Gajanan Phondke, a leading Marathi writer of science literature (fiction and non-fiction). He is credited in part to have started the science fiction genre of writing in Marathi literature. Alongside Dr. Jayant Narlikar's science fiction work Baal Phondke's works had a cult following in a ...
Shivaji Sawant (31 August 1940 – 18 September 2002) was an Indian novelist in the Marathi language. He is known as Mrutyunjaykaar (meaning Author of Mrutyunjay) for writing the famous Marathi novel - Mrutyunjay. [1] He was the first Marathi writer to be awarded with the Moortidevi Award in 1994. [2]
Laxman Londhe (Marathi: लक्ष्मण लोंढे 13 October 1944 - 6 Aug 2015) was a noted novelist and science fiction author in Marathi.He was part of the modern Marathi literary movement to popularize science in the late 1970s, with a group of authors rising to prominence, including Bal Phondke, Niranjan Ghate, Jayant Narlikar, and several others.
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