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Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...

 writers arranged in the English alphabetical order of the writers' last names.

(A list in Marathi of many Marathi writers and links to Wikipedia articles in Marathi concerning those writers are available in list in Marathi of many Marathi writers . A list in Marathi of a large number of Marathi writers and their books is available in http://www.rasik.com/library/aln_map.asp.)

Names of writers having their own individual Wikipedia pages appear below in bold, blue fonts. Names of writers who do not have their own individual Wikipedia pages appear in bold, red fonts. While very brief, relevant information about writers in the second category is included in the following, only the names of writers in the first category are listed. Clicking on the names (in bold, blue fonts) of writers in the first category will lead to the writers' individual Wikipedia pages.
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  • [V.S.Bendre {श्री वा.सी.बेंद्रे }थोर मराठा इतिहास संशोधक आणि लेखक great historian who researched and wrote much of the Maratha history as we know it today.his research into Sambhaji's history where he dispelled many negative myths and his research how Shivaji looked led people recognize Shivaji Maharaj as we know him today. 90 years of his lifetime he wrote and published nearly 60 books.Some of them like Shivaji part-1 and part2,Sambhaji,Maloji and Shahaji,Rajaram books got awarded.शिवाजी महाराजांचे दुर्मिळ चित्र ही ,श्री वा.सी.बेंद्रे यांची महाराष्ट्राच्या इतिहासाला पहिली भेट तर छत्रपती संभाजी महाराजांचे संशोधितअस्सल चरित्र ही त्यांची अधिक मोलाची दुसरी भेट मानावी लागेल.तुकाराम महाराजांच्या अभंगांचा,त्यातील तत्वज्ञानाचा,तुकाराम विषयक वांड मयाचा सखोल अभ्यास केला ३०-३५ वर्षे सतत अभ्यास करून संश्रेष्ठ तुकाराम महाराजांचे तत्वज्ञान ,तुकाराम,चरित्र,मंत्रागीता,तुकाराम महाराजांची गुरुपरंपरा,तुकाराम महाराजांचे संतसांगाती,असे अनेक ग्रंथ लिहिले.ते नुसतेच इतिहासकार नसून चतुरस्त्र लेखक होते.त्यांची stenography हे पुस्तक सुद्धा त्यावेळी गाजले.१९६३ मध्ये मुंबई मराठी ग्रंथ संग्रहालयाचे डायरेक्टर म्हणून ५ वर्षे ह्या संस्थेची सूत्रे सांभाळली होती.मुंबईचे माजी गव्हर्नर लॉर्ड ब्रेबॉन यांच्या इच्छेवरून त्यांना खास शिष्यवृत्ती देऊन "Historical research scholar "म्हणून इतिहास संशोधनासाठी युरोपात पाठवले होते.तेथे दोन वर्षे राहून त्यांनी धूप उपयुक्त साधन संग्रह जमा करून महाराष्ट्राच्या इतिहासाला मोठे योगदान दिले. (13-2-1894) to (16-7-1986)]

  • Kusum Abhyankar (कुसुम अभ्यंकर): Writer of novels.

  • Madhav Achawal (माधव अचवल) (1925–1980): Wrote literary criticism for Satyakatha (सत्यकथा) under the name Rasik (रसिक). Also wrote collection of essays and other creative writing such as drama.

  • M. N. Advant (म. ना. अदवंत): Wrote collections of short essays Manache Sankalp (मनाचे संकल्प) and Manachi Mushafari (मनाची मुशाफरी), and a collection of short stories Sanjiwani (संजीवनी). Painjan (पैंजण) is his collection of poetry by Marathi shahir (शाहीर). Wrote Marathitil Kahi Kathakar (मराठीतील काही कथाकार) (1970).

  • Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
    Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
    Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was a social reformer from Maharashtra, India during the British Raj.-Early life:Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was born on 14 July 1856 in Tembhu , a village in Satara district now in Sangli district of Maharashtra. Agarkar had his primary education from Karad...

     (गोपाळ गणेश आगरकर)

  • Ganesh Janardan Agashe (गणेश जनार्दन आगाशे): Presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

     (मराठी साहित्य सम्मेलन) at Indur in 1917. Wrote a few elegies, including Birudawali (बिरुदावली) concerning Mahadev Govind Ranade.

  • Sukanya Agashe (सुकन्या आगाशे) (b. 1944): Writer of short stories. Na Lihileli Pane (न लिहिलेली पाने) is the title of one of her two story collections. Wrote autobiographical जगाचा डॉक्टर द्वारकादास कोटणीस.

  • Satish Alekar
    Satish Alekar
    Satish Alekar is a Marathi playwright, actor, and theatre director. A founder member of the Theatre Academy of Pune, and most known for his plays Mahanirvan , Mahapoor , Atirekee , Pidhijat , Mickey ani Memsahib , and Begum Barve , all of which he also directed for the Academy...

     (सतीश आळेकर)

  • Anant Sadashiv Altekar
    Anant Sadashiv Altekar
    Anant Sadashiv Altekar was a historian, archaeologist, and numismatist from Maharashtra, India. He was the Manindra Chandra Nandi Professor and Head of the Department of Ancient Indian History and Culture at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, and later the director of the Kashi Prasad...

     (अनंत सदाशिव आळतेकर)

  • Malika Amar Sheikh
    Malika Amar Sheikh
    -Books:* Valucha Priyakar * Mahanagar * Deharutu * Mala Udhvasta Whaychay * Handle With Care* Ek Hota Undir...

    (मलिका अमरशेख)

  • Sohirobanath Ambiye(सहिरोबानाथ आंबिये): An 18th century poet from Goa.

  • Amrutaray(अमृतराय) (1698–1753): Poet from Aurangabad. Introduced Katav vrutta (कटाव वृत्त) into Marathi.

  • Madhav Shrihari Ane(माधव श्रीहरि अणे): Presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

     (मराठी साहित्य सम्मेलन) at Gwalher in 1928. Received Padma Vibhushan Award in 1968.

  • Hari Narayan Apte
    Hari Narayan Apte
    Hari Narayan Apte was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.Through his writings, he provided an eminent example to future Marathi fiction writers in respect of writing effective novels and short stories which faithfully reflect different aspects of contemporary society...

    (हरी नारायण आपटे)

  • Narayan Hari Apte
    Narayan Hari Apte
    Narayan Hari Apte , popularly known as Nanasaheb Apte was a Marathi popular novelist & writer of advice books and editor from Maharashtra, India...

    (नारायण हरी आपटे)

  • Mohan Apte(मोहन आपटे)

  • Prahlad Keshav Atre
    Prahlad Keshav Atre
    Prahlād Keshav Atre , popularly known as Āchārya Atre , was a multi-faceted Indian figure. He was a prominent Marathi writer, a poet, an educationist, a newspaper founder–editor of Maratha , a political leader, a movie producer–director–script writer...

    (प्रह्लाद केशव अत्रे)

  • Anil Awachat
    Anil Awachat
    Anil Awachat is a social activist and Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.Awachat was born in 1944 in the town of Otur in Pune District. He received his medical degree from B. J...

    (अनिल अवचट)

  • Sarojini Babar
    Sarojini Babar
    Sarojini Babar was a Marathi writer and a politician from Maharashtra, India.Babar was born on January 7, 1920 in the town of Bagani in Sangli District of Maharashtra. After finishing her high school studies in Islampur, she joined S. P. College in Pune and secured her bachelor's degree from...

    (सरोजिनी बाबर)

  • Raja Badhe
    Raja Badhe
    Raja Badhe was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India. He first made his name in Nagpur as a poet. Later he moved to Mumbai. He worked for All India Radio for some time. Poets Bobde, Buwa Upadhye , and Anandrao Tekade were his idols.Badhe produced a film on Shivaji.Many of Badhe's songs were...

    (राजा बढे)

  • Asha Bage(आशा बागे): Received in 2007 a Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

     for her novel Bhoomi (भूमी).

  • Baburao Bagul
    Baburao Bagul
    Baburao Bagul was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India; a pioneering of Dalit literature in Marathi and an important figure in the Indian short story during late 20th century, when it experienced a radical departure from the past, with the advent of Dalit writers such as him.He most known for...

    (बाबुराव बागूल)

  • Ashok Bagwe(अशोक बागवे): Poet. Alam (आलम) is the title of his poem collection.

  • Bahinabai
    Bahinabai
    Bahinabai or Bahina or Bahini is a Varkari female-saint from Maharashtra, India. She is considered as a disciple of another Varkari poet-saint Tukaram. Born in a brahmin family, Bahinabai was married to a widower at a tender age and spent most of her childhood wandering around Maharashtra along...

    (बहिणाबाई)

  • Honaji Bal (होनाजी बाळ) (1754–1844): A shahir (शाहीर) poet.

  • Vidya Bal
    Vidya Bal
    Vidya Bal is a Marathi writer/editor from Maharashtra, India. She has been a social activist particularly in the area of equalization of the social status of women vis-à-vis men in India....

     (विद्या बाळ)

  • Shrinivas Narayan Banhatti(श्रीनिवास नारायण बनहट्टी): (1901–1975): Received in 1969 a Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

     for his biographical work Natyacharya Deval-Govinda Ballal Deval Yanche Charitra, Vangmaya, Jeevankarya (नाट्याचार्य देवल- गोविंद बल्लाळ देवल यांचे चरित्र, वाङ्मय, जीवनकार्य).

  • Rajendra Banhatti
    Rajendra Banhatti
    Rajendra Banhatti is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in Pune in 2002.-Authorship:Collection of short stories:* गंगार्पण* कृष्णजन्म* त्रैराशिक...

    (राजेन्द्र बनहट्टी)

  • Hira Banasode(हिरा बनसोडे): Poetess. Purnima (पूर्णिमा), Phiryad ('फिर्याद), and Phoenix (फिनिक्स) are the titles of her three poem collections. Has written novel Abhala-ewadhi(आभाळाएवढी).

  • Vasant Vaman Bapat
    Vasant Bapat
    Vasant Vaman Bapat was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.He was born on July 25, 1922 in Karad in Satara district of Maharashtra.-Education and teaching career:...

    (वसंत वामन बापट)

  • Achyut Barve(अच्युत बर्वे): (d. 1982): Novelist. Wrote novel Kaleidoscope (क्यालिडोस्कोप)

  • Vinayak Laxman Barve(विनायक लक्ष्मण बर्वे) (1896–1948): Wrote short stories, short essays, novels, poems, and plays. Wrote novel Muchkund Dari (मुचकुंद दरी) (1940).

  • Dinkar Keshav Bedekar(दिनकर केशव बेडेकर) (1910–1973): Wrote Dharma Chintan (धर्मचिंतन).

  • Malati Vishram Bedekar(मालती विश्राम बेडेकर)

  • Vishram Bedekar
    Vishram Bedekar
    Vishwanath Chintamani Bedekar , who professionally used the name Vishram Bedekar , was a Marathi writer and movie director from Maharashtra, India....

    (विश्राम बेडेकर)

  • Narayan Keshav Behere(नारायण केशव बेहेरे): Poet and historian. Wrote in English The Background of Maratha Renaissance in the 17th Century (1946). Wrote the elegy Smarani (स्मरणी).

  • Ganapati Vasudev Behere(गणपती वासुदेव बेहेरे): Editor of periodical Sobat (सोबत) in which he wrote a literary column Gawaksh (गवाक्ष), and another column, Kataksha (कटाक्ष). Used Anil Vishwas (अनिल विश्वास) as one of his pen names.

  • Durga Bhagwat
    Durga Bhagwat
    Durga Narayan Bhagwat , popularly known as Durga Bhagwat, was an Indian scholar, socialist and writer. She studied Sanskrit and Buddhist literature, roamed jungles of Madhya Pradesh to study tribal life, later returned to Mumbai as a researcher and wrote books in Marathi...

    (दुर्गा भागवत)

  • S. J. Bhagwat(श्री. ज. भागवत): Wrote Jivan-Chintan (जीवन-चिंतन) (1958).

  • Indrajit Bhalerao(इंद्रजित भालेराव): Poet.

  • Suresh Shridhar Bhat
    Suresh Bhat
    Suresh Bhat was a noted Marathi poet from the state of Maharashtra, India. He was known as Ghazal Samrat for his exposition of the ghazal form of poetry and its adaptation to the Marathi language.-Life:...

    (सुरेश श्रीधर भट)

  • Purushottam Bhaskar Bhave(पुरुषोत्तम भास्कर भावे)

  • Vinayak Laxman Bhave(विनायक लक्ष्मण भावे) (1871–1926): Wrote in 1919 Maharashtra Saraswat (महाराष्ट्र सारस्वत) concerning old Marathi literature. (Shankar Gopal Tulpule (शंकर गोपाळ तुळपुळे) revised it in 1951.)

  • Vinayak Narahari Bhave
    Vinoba Bhave
    Vinoba Bhave , born Vinayak Narahari Bhave often called Acharya , was an Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights. He is best known for the Bhoodan Andolan...

    (विनायक नरहरी भावे) (विनोबा भावे)

  • Vishnudas Bhave
    Vishnudas Bhave
    Vishnudas Bhave, विष्णुदास भावे in Marathi, was the leading dramatist of Maharashtra in India. The first play in Marathi "Sita Swayamvar" was staged first in Sangli 1843 by Vishnudas Bhave. In this venture, Vishnudas Bhave was fully supported by Rajasaheb Chintamanrao Patwardhan. After the success...

    (विष्णुदास भावे)

  • Subhash Bhende
    Subhash Bhende
    Subhash Bhende is a Marathi writer from Goa, India. He died in December , 2010Humor characterizes many of Bhende's writings.He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Karad in 2003....

    (सुभाष भेंडे)

  • D. T. Bhosle(द. ता. भोसले): Writer of short stories, novels, essays, and literary criticism.

  • Dinkar Dattatrey Bhosle(दिनकर दत्तात्रेय भोसले) (b. 1930): Wrote under the female pen name Charuta Sagar (चारुता सागर) Nagin (नागिन), a collection of his short stories pertaining to rural life in Maharashtra.

  • Padmini Biniwale(पद्मिनी बिनिवाले): Writer of short stories.

  • Milind Bokil
    Milind Bokil
    Milind Bokil is a writer and a sociologist from Maharashtra, India. He has written in Marathi and English.He received a doctorate in sociology from Pune University...

    (मिलिंद बोकिल)

  • Vishnu Vinayak Bokil(विष्णु विनायक बोकिल) (1907–1973) : Wrote short stories.

  • Raosaheb Ranganath Borade (रावसाहेब रंगनाथ बोराडे) (1940-?): Wrote novel Pachola (पाचोळा).

  • Balakrishna Bhagwant Borkar(बाळकृष्ण भगवन्त बोरकर)

  • Vinayak Adinath Buwa
    Vinayak Adinath Buwa
    Vinayak Adinath Buwa is a Marathi humorist from Maharashtra, India.The following is a partial list of his collections of humorous articles and stories:* मराठी my बोली* नवर्‍यांवर पी एच डी...

    (विनायक आदिनाथ बुवा)

  • Narayan Govind Chapekar
    Narayan Govind Chapekar
    Narayan Govind Chapekar was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He was the editor of Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika ....

    (नारायण गोविंद चापेकर)

  • Bahinabai Chaudhari
    Bahinabai Chaudhari
    Bahinabai Chaudhari was a noted Marathi poetess from Maharashtra, India.-Life and works:She was born in 24 August,1880 in Asoda in Khandesh District...

    (बहिणाबाई चौधरी)

  • Sopandev Chaudhari(सोपानदेव चौधरी) (d. 1982): Poet. (Son of Bahinabai Chaudhari.)

  • Krushnashastri Chiplunkar(कृष्णशास्त्री चिपळूणकर)

  • Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar
    Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar
    Vishnushastri Chiplunkar was a Marathi writer, whose writings have had a decisive influence on modern Marathi prose style. He was the son of the writer and scholar Krushnashastri Chiplunkar.- Life :...

    (विष्णुशास्त्री कृष्णशास्त्री चिपळूणकर)

  • Sharachchandra Chirmule(शरच्चंद्र चिरमुले) (1931–1992): Writer of Shri-Shillak (श्रीशिल्लक), a collection of short stories.

  • Maruti Chitampalli
    Maruti Chitampalli
    Maruti B. Chitampalli is a wildlife conservationist and Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He grew up in Solapur and then went to enroll himself in State Forest Service College in Coimbatore. After completing his training, he joined the services with Maharashtra State government...

    (मारुती चितंपल्ली)

  • Dilip Purushottam Chitre
    Dilip Chitre
    Dilip Purushottam Chitre was one of the foremost Indian writers and critics to emerge in the post Independence India. Apart from being a very important bilingual writer, writing in Marathi and English, he was also a painter and filmmaker.-Biography:He was born in Baroda on 17 September 1938...

    (दिलीप पुरुषोत्तम चित्रे)

  • Chokhamela
    Chokhamela
    Chokhamela was a saint in Maharashtra, India in the 14th century. He belonged to the Mahar caste considered "untouchable" in India in that era. He was born at Mehuna raja, a village in Deulgaon Raja Taluka of Buldhana district. He lived at Mangalvedhe in Maharashtra. He wrote many Abhangas...

    (चोखामेळा)

  • Vaman Krushna Chorghade
    Vaman Krushna Chorghade
    Vaman Krushna Chorghade was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He was born on July 16, 1914 in Narkhed, Nagpur District. He received a master's degree in Marathi and Economics, and a B.T...

    (वामन कृष्ण चोरघडे)

  • Vasant Abaji Dahake
    Vasant Abaji Dahake
    Vasant Abaji Dahake is a Marathi poet, playwright, short story writer, artist, and critic from Amaravati district in the Maharashtra state of India. He is awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection ` Chitralipi' for the year 2009....

    (वसंत आबाजी डहाके)

  • Jaywant Dalvi
    Jaywant Dalvi
    Jaywant Dalvi was a prominent contemporary Marathi writer in Maharashtra, India. Originally hailing from Sawantwadi in Maharashtra he was born in a Gaur Saraswat Brahmin family....

    (जयवंत दळवी)

  • Hamid Dalwai
    Hamid Dalwai
    Hamid Dalwai was a Muslim social reformer, thinker, activist and Marathi writer in Maharashtra, India.-Early life and education:He was born in a Marathi-speaking Muslim family in the Ratnagiri district of Konkan....

    (हमीद दलवाई)

  • Krishnaji Keshav Damle
    Keshavasuta
    Krishnaji Keshav Damle was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India, who wrote poetry under the pen name Keshavasuta .-Life:Damle was born on March 15, 1866 in the town of Malgund near Ratnagiri....

    (कृष्णाजी केशव दामले) (केशवसुत)

  • Gopal Nilkanth Dandekar(गोपाल नीलकंठ दांडेकर)

  • Malati Madhav Dandekar(मालती माधव दांडेकर) (1911–1986): Writer of short stories, novels, and literature for children. Wrote Wiwahanantar (विवाहानंतर) and play Murti (मूर्ति).

  • Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar
    Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar
    Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar was a renowned Indologist and Vedic scholar from Maharashtra, India.He was born in Satara on March 17, 1909 and died in Pune on December 11, 2001-Education:...

    (रामचंद्र नारायण दांडेकर)

  • Vinayak Pandurang Dandekar(विनायक पांडुरंग दांडेकर): Writer of short essays.

  • Anil Dange(अनिल डांगे): Writer of short stories. Swastik (स्वस्तिक ) is the title of one of his books.

  • Arjun Dangle(अर्जुन डांगळे): Poet. Chhawani Halate Ahe (छावणी हलते आहे) is the title of his poem collection.

  • Govind Dattatray Darekar(गोविंद दत्तात्रय दरेकर) (1874–1926): Wrote poetry with nationalistic fervor under the pen name Kavi Govind (कवि गोविंद). Many of his poems, including रणावीण स्वातंत्र्य कोणा मिळाले?, were proscribed by the then British government ruling over India.

  • Purshottam Darvhekar(पुरुषोत्तम दार्व्हेकर) (1926–1999): Playwright, actor, director. Wrote the play Katyar Kalajat Ghusali (कट्यार काळजात घुसली).

  • Snehalata Dasanurkar(स्नेहलता दसनूरकर) (d. 2003): Writer of short stories.,

  • Chhaya Datar(छाया दातार): Writer of short stories.

  • Prabhakar Janardan Datar(प्रभाकर जनार्दन दातार) (c. 1755-1843): Shahir poet popularly known as Prabhakar.

  • Datta Davajekar(दत्ता डावजेकर): Poet.

  • Pravin Davane (प्रवीण दवणे): Writer of poetry, short stories, and essays.

  • Ramchandra Dekhane
    Ramchandra Dekhane
    Ramchandra Dekhane is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.-Literary works:* Gondhal : Parampara, Swaroop Ani Awishkar...

     (रामचंद्र देखणे)

  • Kamal Desai(कमल देसाई) (b. 1928): Writer of short stories. Ratrandin Amha Yudhhacha Prasang (रात्रंदिन आम्हा युद्धाचा प्रसंग) (1962), Kala Surya (काळा सूर्य), and Hat Ghalnari Bai (हॅट घालणारी बाई) (1975) are some of the collections of her short stories, the last one having been translated into English.

  • Mrunalini Desai
    Mrunalini Desai
    Mrunalini Desai was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.The following is a list of her books:* Āryā Vedavatī * Maṇibahan Paṭel * Pūrṇāhuti * Prītīcī Rīt * Pūrṇāhuti...

    (मृणालिनी देसाई)

  • Ranjit Desai
    Ranjit Desai
    Ranjit Desai was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He was born in 1928 in the town of Kowad in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra.-Novels:* Bari* Maza Gav* Swami* Shriman Yogi* Radheya* Lakshya Wedh* Samidha...

    (रणजित देसाई)

  • Gopal Hari Deshmukh
    Gopal Hari Deshmukh
    Gopal Hari Deshmukh was a social reformer from Maharashtra, India.-Career:Deshmukh started his career as a translator for the government then under British Raj. In 1867, the government appointed him a small cause judge in Ahmedabad, Gujarat...

     (गोपाळ हरी देशमुख)

  • Sadanand Namdev Deshmukh
    Sadanand Deshmukh
    Sadanand Namdev Deshmukh is a Marathi language author. He was awarded with Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004 for his novel Baromas.-References:...

     (सदानंद नामदेव देशमुख): Received in 2004 a Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

     for his novel Baromas (बारोमास).

  • Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande
    Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande
    Atmaram Raoji Deshpande was a Marathi poet from Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India. He wrote poems under the pen name Anil . He was born on 11 September 1901 at Murtijapur in Akola district of Central India...

     (आत्माराम रावजी देशपांडे)

  • Gajanan Tryambak Deshpande(गजानन त्र्यंबक देशपांडे) (1910–1989): A scholar of Sanskrit
    Sanskrit
    Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...

     literature. Received in 1959 a Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

     for his work Bharatiya Sahitya Shastra (भारतीय साहित्यशास्त्र).

  • Gauri Deshpande
    Gauri Deshpande
    Gauri Deshpande was a novelist, short story writer, and poet from Maharashtra, India. She wrote in Marathi and English....

    (गौरी देशपांडे)

  • Govind Purushottam Deshpande
    Govind Purushottam Deshpande
    Govind Purushottam Deshpande is a Marathi playwright and academic from Maharashtra, India. He is also known as GoPu , or GPD....

    (गोविंद पुरुषोत्तम देशपांडे)

  • Kusumavati Deshpande
    Kusumavati Deshpande
    Kusumavati Deshpande was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.She was born on November 10, 1904 in Amravati, Maharashtra, her maiden having been Kusum Jaywant...

    (कुसुमावती देशपांडे)

  • Madhav Kashinath Deshpande
    Madhav Kashinath Deshpande
    Madhav Kashinath Deshpande was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India and a renowned professor of English language and literature of his times...

    (माधव काशीनाथ देशपांडे)

  • Nagorao Ghanashyam Deshpande
    Nagorao Ghanashyam Deshpande
    Nagorao Ghanashyam Deshpande was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.He was born on August 21, 1909 in the town of Shendurjan in Buldhana District of Maharashtra....

    (नागोराव घनश्याम देशपांडे)

  • Purushottam Laxman Deshpande(पुरुषोत्तम लक्ष्मण देशपांडे)

  • Purushottam Yashawant Deshpande(पुरुषोत्तम यशवंत देशपांडे): Received in 1962 a Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

     for his work Anamikachi Chintanika (अनामिकाची चिंतनिका). (He was the father of Nirmala Deshpande
    Nirmala Deshpande
    Nirmala Deshpande was a noted Indian social activist who had embraced Gandhian philosophy...

    .)

  • Sunita Deshpande(सुनीता देशपांडे)

  • Waman Achyut Deshpande(वामन अच्युत देशपांडे): Biographer.

  • Yashawant Dev(यशवंत देव): Poet.

  • Jyotsna Keshav Devadhar (ज्योत्स्ना केशव देवधर) (b. 1926): Writer of short stories primarily concerning women's issues. Her short story collections include Winjhanwara (विंझणवारा), Pangharun (Sayali) (पांघरूण (सायली) ), Tejaswini Yachi Janmi (तेजस्विनी याचि जन्मी), Muthabhar Manusaki (मूठभर माणुसकी), and Niwadak Jyotsna Devadhar (निवडक ज्योत्स्ना देवधर).

  • Govind Ballal Deval
    Govind Ballal Deval
    Govind Ballal Deval was a Marathi playwright from Maharashtra, India.Deval was born in 1855 in a village in the Kokan region of Maharashtra, but he spent his childhood in Haripur near Sangli...

    (गोविंद बल्लाळ देवल)

  • Narayan Dharap
    Narayan Dharap
    Narayan Dharap was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He wrote about 40 books, primarily of the horror genre- written in Marathi language....

    (नारायण धारप)

  • Namdeo Laxman Dhasal
    Namdeo Dhasal
    Namdeo Laxman Dhasal is a Marathi writer and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India.-Biography:Dhasal was born on February 15, 1949, in a village near Pune, India. A member of the Mahar Dalit class, he grew up in dire poverty...

    (नामदेव लक्ष्मण ढसाळ)

  • Aruna Ramchandra Dhere
    Aruna Ramchandra Dhere
    Aruna Ramchandra Dhere is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.She has a Ph.D. from Pune University in Marathi literature...

    (अरुणा रामचंद्र ढेरे)

  • Ramchandra Chintamani Dhere
    Ramchandra Chintamani Dhere
    Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. Dhere was born in the town of Nigade in Pune district. He obtained a D.Lit...

    (रामचंद्र चिंतामणी ढेरे)

  • Madhukar Vasudev Dhond(मधुकर वासुदेव धोंड)

  • Ashwini Ramesh Dhongade(अश्विनी रमेश धोंगडे): Poetess and writer of novels and children's literature.

  • Raghunath Vaman Dighe
    Raghunath Vaman Dighe
    Raghunath Vaman Dighe was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He wrote notable novels pertaining to rural life in Maharashtra....

    (रघुनाथ वामन दिघे)

  • Muktabai Dixit(मुक्ताबाई दीक्षित)

  • Dnyaneshwar
    Dnyaneshwar
    Dnyāneshwar , also known as Jñanadeva , was born into a Deshastha Brahmin Kulkarni family.He was a 13th century Maharashtrian Hindu saint , poet, philosopher and yogi of the Nath tradition whose works Bhavartha deepika teeka ,...

    (ज्ञानेश्वर)

  • Mahesh Elkunchwar
    Mahesh Elkunchwar
    Mahesh Elkunchwar is an Indian playwright with more than 15 plays to his name, in addition to his theoretical writings, critical works, and his active work in India's Parallel Cinema as actor and screenwriter....

     (महेश एलकुंचवार)

  • Eknath
    Eknath
    Eknath was a prominent Marathi scholar and religious poet. He is called a "sant" in the Marathi tradition as are most other religious poets...

     (एकनाथ)

  • D. V. Fafe (फफे): Poet.

  • Bal Gadgil (बाळ गाडगीळ): Humorist.

  • Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil (गंगाधर गोपाळ गाडगीळ)

  • Narahar Vishnu Gadgil
    Narahar Vishnu Gadgil
    Narhar Vishnu Gadgil was an Indian freedom fighter and politician from Maharashtra, India. He was also a writer...

    (नरहर विष्णु गाडगीळ)

  • Ram Ganesh Gadkari
    Ram Ganesh Gadkari
    Ram Ganesh Gadkari was a Marathi poet, playwright, and humorist from Maharashtra, India.Ram Ganesh Gadkari was one of the writers in new age transformation in Marathi Literature. He wrote poetry under the pen name Govindagraj and humorous articles under the pen name Balakram...

    (राम गणेश गडकरी)

  • Laxman Maruti Gaikwad(लक्ष्मण मारुती गायकवाड) (b. 1956): Received a Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

     in 1988 for his autobiographical Uchalya (उचल्या).

  • Monika Gajendragadkar (मोनिका गजेंद्रगडकर): Writer of short stories and editor at Mauj Prakashan. Aart (आर्त) and Bhoop (भूप) are two collections of her short stories. (Daughter of Vidyadhar Pundalik.)

  • Saraswati Gangadhar
    Saraswati Gangadhar
    Saraswati Gangadhar सरस्वती गंगाधर is well known as the writer of theShri GuruCharitra, the most powerful, influential and effective book written on the life of Shri Narasimha Saraswati who is considered as the second Avatar of Shri Dattatreya.Nothing much is known about this poet's life...

    (सरस्वती गंगाधर)

  • Prabha Ganorkar (प्रभा गानोरकर): Poetess. Co-compiler of Wangmayin Samdnya-Sankalpana Kosh (वाङ्मयीन संज्ञा-संकल्पना कोश)

  • Shankar Kashinath Garge (शंकर काशीनाथ गर्गे) (1889–1931): Wrote 51 short one-act plays and soliloquies (नाट्यछटा) under the pen name Diwakar (दिवाकर).

  • Rajan Gavas (राजन गवस): Received in 2001 a Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

     for his novel Tanakat (टणकट).

  • Dattatreya Kondo Ghate (दत्तात्रेय कोंडो घाटे): Wrote poetry under the pen name Kavi Datta (कवि दत्त).

  • Viththal Dattatreya Ghate
    Viththal Dattatreya Ghate
    Viththal Dattatreya Ghate was an educationist and a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He was born in Ghospuri in Ahmednagar district. After spending childhood in Ahmednagar he went to Gujarat. Later he lived in Malwa, Indore, Gwalher and came back to Maharashtra...

     (विठ्ठल दत्तात्रेय घाटे)

  • Anantphandi Gholap (अनंतफंदी घोलप) (1744-?): A shahir (शाहीर) poet commonly known by his first name अनंतफंदी.

  • Mangala Godbole
    Mangala Godbole
    Mangala Godbole is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. She has been writing for over 25 years. She wrote her first article soon after her marriage and sent it to Stree—the only feminist magazine in Marathi those days—which published it immediately...

     (मंगला गोडबोले)

  • Parashuram Ballal Godbole (पुरुषोत्तम बल्लाळ गोडबोले) (1799–1874): Translated into Marathi some Sanskrit literature such as UttarRamCharit (उत्तररामचरित), Shakuntal (शाकुंतल), and Mruchchhakatik (मृच्छकटिक). Compiled Navanit (नवनीत), a collection of poetry by earlier poets. Wrote a critic Kekadarsha (केकादर्श) on Kekavali (केकावली) by Moropant.

  • Manik Sitaram Godghate (माणिक सीताराम गोडघाटे) (b. 1940): Poet. Pen name Grace (ग्रेस). Chandramadhawiche Pradesh (चंद्रमाधवीचे प्रदेश), Rajaputra Ani Darling (राजपुत्र आणि डार्लिंग), and Sandhyakalachya Kawita ( संध्याकाळच्या कविता) are the titles of three of his poem collections.

  • Dattatraya Ganesh Godse
    Dattatraya Ganesh Godse
    Dattatraya Ganesh Godse was an Indian historian, playwright, art critic, art director, theater and costume designer, and illustrator...

    (दत्तात्रय गणेश गोडसे)

  • Vishnubhat Godse
    Vishnubhat Godse
    Vishnubhat Godse commonly known as Godse Bhataji was an Indian traveller and a Marathi writer. Godse is best known for his travelogue Majha Pravas , which is notable for the description of his "true and unique" experiences of the Indian mutiny of 1857 during his travel in North India...

     (विष्णुभट गोडसे) (1827–1904): Wrote an eyewitness account of the unsuccessful struggle of India in 1857 to overthrow the rule over it of British East India Company
    East India Company
    The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...

    : Majha Prawas (माझा प्रवास अथवा सन १८५७ सालच्या बंडाची हकिकत).

  • Mandakini Gogate
    Mandakini Gogate
    Mandakini Kamalakar Gogate was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.She was born on May 16, 1936 in Mumbai, and received her bachelor's degree from SNDT Women's University. She also had a G. D...

     (मंदाकिनी गोगटे)

  • Shakuntala Gogate (शकुंतला गोगटे) (1930–1991): Writer of short stories and novels.

  • Arvind Gokhale
    Arvind Gokhale
    Arvind Gokhale was a Marathi writer of short stories. He hailed from Maharashtra, India.-Authorship:Gokhale wrote 25 collections of his short stories...

    (अरविंद गोखले)

  • Dattatraya Narsinha Gokhale (दत्तात्रय नरसिंह गोखले) (1922 – ): Received in 1961 a Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

     for his biographical work Dr. Ketkar (डॉ. केतकर).

  • Vidyadhar S. Gokhale
    Vidyadhar Gokhale
    Vidyadhar S. Gokhale was a political activist, a Marathi playwright, and an editor of a Marathi newspaper, Loksatta , from Maharashtra, India....

    (विद्याधर गोखले)

  • Padma Gole
    Padma Gole
    Padma Gole was a Marathi poetess from Maharashtra, India. She was one of the many women from rich Indian families who were emboldened by the Gandhian movement to become feminist writers. Her poetry was heavily influenced by the writings of Ram Ganesh Gadkari, Tryambak Bapuji Thombre, and Yashwant...

    (पद्मा गोळे)

  • Narayan Ganesh Gore
    Narayan Ganesh Gore
    Narayan Ganesh Gore was a socialist leader and Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He was born in the town of Hindale in Konkan. He received his school and college education in Pune to earn a degree in law....

    (नारायण गणेश गोरे)

  • Chandrashekhar Gorhe (चंद्रशेखर गोर्‍हे) (1871–1937): Poet. Pen name Kavi Chandrashekhar (कवि चंद्रशेखर). Had been designated as Rajkavi (राजकवि) of Baroda.

  • Deepa Gowarikar (दीपा गोवारीकर): Writer of short stories. Majhe Pan Wishwa (माझे पण विश्व), Sashtanga Dhappa (साष्टांग धप्प), and Wasa (वसा) are the titles of her three books.

  • Gangadhar Balwant Gramopadhye (गंगाधर बळवंत ग्रामोपाध्ये) (1909–2002): Wrote on Marathi sant (संत) literature, medieval literature, and Marathi language.

  • Nilima Gundi (नीलिमा गुंडी): Poetess and literary critic.
  • Ramchandra Bhikaji Gunjikar
    Ramchandra Bhikaji Gunjikar
    Ramchandra Bhikaji Gunjikar was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He was born on April 10, 1843 in the town of Jamboti in Belgaum District....

    (रामचंद्र भिकाजी गुंजीकर)

  • Narayan Murlidhar Gupte (नारायण मुरलीधर गुप्ते): Wrote poems under the pen name Bee.

  • Vasant Gurjar (वसंत गुर्जर): Poet. Aranya (अरण्य) is the title of a collection of his poems.

  • Viththal Sitaram Gurjar (विठ्ठल सीताराम गुर्जर) (1885–1962): Wrote short stories and poetry. Translated Rakhaldas Banerjee's Shashank into Marathi.

  • Shriniwas Hemade : writes satire and Philosophical writings in Marathi. Conferred Anant Kanekar Puraskar by Marathi Sahitya Parishad for his write up in Purush Spanadan Diwali 2009 :Maitrichi Baajarpeth : Maitri Vikatach Ghyavayachi Asate.

  • Vitthal Waman Hadap (विठ्ठल वामन हडप) (1899–1960): Wrote semihistorical novels about the 18th century rule of Peshawe in Maharashtra, including Peshawaitil Paschim Digwijay (पेशवाईतील पश्चिमदिग्विजय) and Kadambarimay Peshawai (कादंबरीमय पेशवाई).

  • Lakshmanshastri Moreshwarshastri Halbe (लक्ष्मणशास्त्री मोरेश्वरशास्त्री हळबे) (1831–1904). Wrote novel Muktamala (मुक्तामाला) (1861).

  • Madhukar Dattatreya Hatakananglekar
    Madhukar Dattatreya Hatakananglekar
    Madhukar Dattatreya Hatakananglekar is a Marathi literary critic from Maharashtra, India.He was born on February 1, 1927 in the town of in Hatakananagle in Kolhapur district....

    (मधुकर दत्तात्रेय हातकणंगलेकर)

  • Prakash Holkar (प्रकाश होळकर): Poet. Korade Nakshatra (कोरडे नक्षत्र) is the title of his poem collection.

  • Hemant V. Inamdar (हेमंत वि. इनामदार): Writer of books on sant literature (संतवाङ्मय).

  • Nagnath S. Inamdar
    Nagnath S. Inamdar
    Nagnath S. Inamdar was a Marathi novelist.He was born in a village in Satara district of Maharashtra, India.He wrote sixteen historical novels...

    (नागनाथ सं. इनामदार)

  • Pratima Ingole (प्रतिमा इंगोळे): Writer of short stories and novels.

  • Suhasini Irlekar (सुहासिनी इर्लेकर): Poetess and literary critic.

  • R. G. Jadhav
    R. G. Jadhav
    R. G. Jadhav is a Marathi literary critic from Maharashtra, India.For some years, he served as a professor of Marathi literature, first in a college in Amravati, then in Elphinstone College in Mumbai, and lastly in Milind College in Aurangabad...

    (रा. ग. जाधव)

  • Balshastri Jambhekar
    Balshastri Jambhekar
    Balshastri Jambhekar is also known as Father of Marathi journalism for his efforts in starting journalism in Marathi language with the first newspaper in the language named 'Darpan' in the early days of British Rule in India....

    (आचार्य बाळशास्त्री जांभेकर) (1810–1846): Started the first Marathi newspaper Mumbai Darpan (मुंबई दर्पण) in 1832 at his age 22.

  • Janabai
    Janabai
    Janābāi was a Marāthi religious poetess in the Hindu tradition in India, who was born likely in the seventh or the eighth decade of the 13th century. According to folklore, she died in 1350....

    (जनाबाई)

  • Anand Vinayak Jategoankar (आनंद विनायक जातेगांवकर): Wrote play Jyacha Tyacha Vithoba (ज्याचा त्याचा विठोबा).

  • Shankar Dattatraya Javdekar
    Shankar Dattatraya Javdekar
    Shankar Dattatraya Javdekar , popularly known as Acharya Javdekar, was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India....

    (शंकर दत्तात्रय जावडेकर)

  • Ramchandra Shripad Jog
    Ramchandra Shripad Jog
    Ramchandra Shripad Jog was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Thane in 1960.The following is a partial list of Jog's literary works:...

    (रामचंद्र श्रीपाद जोग)

  • Hemant Jogalekar (हेमंत जोगळेकर): Poet.

  • Yogini Jogalekar (योगिनी जोगळेकर) (1925–2005): Wrote 50 novels, 39 collections of short stories, and some collections of poems, including poems for children.

  • Chintaman Vinayak Joshi
    Chintaman Vinayak Joshi
    Chintaman Vinayak Joshi was a Marathi humorist and a researcher in Pali literature. He hailed from Maharashtra, India.-Early life and career:Joshi was born on January 19, 1892 in Pune...

    (चिंतामण विनायक जोशी)

  • Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi
    Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi
    Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.-Biography:He was born in the town of Pimpalner in Dhule District on January 27, 1901....

    (लक्ष्मणशास्त्री बाळाजी जोशी)

  • Mahadevshastri Joshi
    Mahadevshastri Joshi
    Mahadevshastri Joshi was a Marathi writer.Joshi was born on January 12, 1906 in the town of Ambede in Goa...

    (महादेवशास्त्री जोशी)

  • Prahlad Narhar Joshi
    Prahlad Narhar Joshi
    Prahlad Narhar Joshi is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.Joshi was born on April 24, 1924 in the town of Kharshi in Satara District. He received his Ph.D...

    (प्रह्लाद नरहर जोशी)

  • R. B. Joshi (रा. भि. जोशी) (1903–1992): Wrote travelogue Watchal (वाटचाल); and Sathawani (साठवणी), Uthaw (उथव), Jhamman (झम्मन), and Majal Darmajal (मजल दरमजल).

  • Ram Jagannath Joshi (राम जगन्नाथ जोशी) (1758–1813): A shahir (शाहीर) poet popularly known as रामजोशी.

  • Sanjay Joshi (संजय जोशी): Novelist. http://www.rasik.com/cgi_bin/display_author.cgi?authorId=a7648&lang=marathi

  • Shrikrishna Janardan Joshi (श्रीकृष्ण जनार्दन जोशी)

  • Shripad Raghunath Joshi
    Shripad Raghunath Joshi
    Shripad Raghunath Joshi was a Marathi author from Maharashtra, India.Joshi was born in the Kolhapur district of Maharashtra....

    (श्रीपाद रघुनाथ जोशी)

  • Sudhakar Dattatraya Joshi (सुधाकर दत्तात्रय जोशी): Coedited with G. Y. Kamat and Anand Nadkarni Keshavsut Samiksha (केशवसुत समीक्षा).

  • Vaman Gopal Joshi (वामन गोपाळ जोशी) (1881–1956): A journalist and playwright. Wrote play Rakshasi Mahatwakansha (राक्षसी महत्त्वाकांक्षा).
  • Vaman Malhar Joshi
    Vaman Malhar Joshi
    Vaman Malhar Joshi was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.Joshi was born on January 21, 1882 in the town of Tale in the Konkan region of Maharashtra...

    (वामन मल्हार जोशी)

  • Yashwant Gopal Joshi (यशवंत गोपाळ जोशी) (1901–1963): Writer of short stories. Editor/Publisher of monthly Prasad (प्रसाद). Chaired Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in 1947. Shewagyachya Shenga (शेवग्याच्या शेंगा), Dudhachi Ghagar (दुधाची घागर), Tarang (तरंग), and Kimaya Kagadachi (किमया कागदाची) are the titles of collections of his short stories and essays.

  • Baba Kadam (बाबा कदम): Writer of short stories and novels.

  • Asavari Kakde (आसावरी काकडे): Poetess.
  • Chandrakant Kakodkar (चंद्रकान्त काकोडकर)(1921–1988): Wrote novels, including Shyama (श्यामा) (1963).

  • Keshav Narayan Kale (केशव नारायण काळे) (1904–1974): Critic, translator, film script writer, and actor associated with Prabhat Studio (प्रभात स्टुडिओ) .

  • Shripad Ramkrushna Kale (श्रीपाद रामकृष्ण काळे) (d. 1999): Writer of short stories.

  • Vasant Purushottam Kale (वसंत पुरुषोत्तम काळे)

  • R. A. Kalele (रा. अ. काळेले): Poet. Collection of poems: Roopmati (रूपमती). Had been designated as Rajkavi (राजकवि). Wrote the critique Tambe: Ek Adhyayan (तांबे: एक अध्ययन) concerning the works of poet Bhaskar Ramchandra Tambe.

  • Dattatreya Balkrushna Kalelkar (दत्तात्रेय बालकृष्ण कालेलकर) (popularly known as काका कालेलकर)

  • Narayan Govind Kalelkar
    Narayan Govind Kalelkar
    Narayan Govind Kalelkar was a linguist from Maharashtra, India.He was born in the village of Bambuli in Ratnagiri District. He received his early college education in Baroda and Mumbai with specialization in French language, and a D.Lit...

    (नारायण गोविंद कालेलकर)

  • Madhusudan Kalelkar (मधुसूदन कालेलकर) (b. 1924): Poet and playwright.

  • Satish Kalsekar (सतीश कळसेकर): Poet. Indriyopawishad (इंद्रियोपविषद) is the title of a collection of his poems.

  • Namdev Kamble (नामदेव कांबळे): Wrote novels Sanjarang (सांजरंग), Oon Sawali (ऊनसावली), and RaghawaWel (राघववेल), the last one receiving a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1995.

  • Pandurang Vaman Kane
    Pandurang Vaman Kane
    Bharat Ratna Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane was a notable Indologist and Sanskrit scholar. He received India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 1963. He was born in a conservative Chitpavan Brahmin family in the Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra, India. Eminent Historian Professor R.S...

    (पांडुरंग वामन काणे)

  • Anant Kanekar
    Anant Kanekar
    Anant Atmaram Kanekar was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He was born in Mumbai on December 2, 1905.-Education and career:...

    (अनंत काणेकर)

  • Shirish Kanekar
    Shirish Kanekar
    Shirish Kanekar is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.The following is a partial list of his books:* इरसालकी* खटलं आणि खटला* गाये चला जा* गोतावळा* चापलूसकी* चापटपोळी* फटकेबाजी* लगाव बत्ती* सूरपारंब्या* चहाटळकी...

    (शिरीष कणेकर)

  • Shankar Keshav Kanetkar (शंकर केशव कानेटकर) (1893–1974): Wrote poetry under the pen name Girish (गिरीश). He was a member of Ravikiran Mandal, (रविकिरण मंडळ), a group of poets. (Father of playwright Vasant Kanetkar and classical singer Madhusudan Kanetkar.)

  • Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (वसंत शंकर कानेटकर)

  • Kanhopatra
    Kanhopatra
    Kanhopatra or Kanhupatra was a 15th century Marathi saint-poetess, venerated by the Varkari sect of Hinduism.Little is known about Kanhopatra. According to most traditional accounts, Kanhopatra was a courtesan and dancing-girl...

    (कान्होपात्रा)

  • Kashibai Kanitkar
    Kashibai Kanitkar
    Kashibai Kanitkar was the first major woman writer in Marathi from Maharashtra, India since the 15th century "sant" poetess Kanhopatra ....

    (काशीबाई कानिटकर)

  • Madhav Kanitkar (माधव कानिटकर): Writer of short stories, novels, and literature for children.

  • Vasudeo Govind Kanitkar (वासुदेव गोविंद कानिटकर): Presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

     (मराठी साहित्य सम्मेलन) in Pune in 1906.

  • V. R. Kant (वा. रा. कांत) (1913–1991): Poet. Marangandha (मरणगंध), Welanti (वेलांटी), and Wajali Wijechi Tali (वाजली विजेची टाळी) are the titles of his three poem collections.

  • Raghunath Pandurang Karandikar (रघुनाथ पांडुरंग करंदीकर): Presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

     (मराठी साहित्य सम्मेलन) in Satara in 1905.

  • Vinayak Janardan Karandikar
    Vinayak Janardan Karandikar
    Vinayak Janardan Karandikar was a major poet of the Marathi language of India. He is considered part of the early twentieth century renaissance in literature and poetry of the Marathi Language in the Indian state of Maharashtra due to his contribution to the revival of ancient poetry forms from...

    (विनायक जनार्दन करंदीकर) (1872–1909): Wrote poems under the pen name Kavi Vinayak (कवि विनायक).

  • Govind Vinayak Karandikar
    Vinda Karandikar
    Govind Vināyak Karandikar , better known as Vindā Karandikar , was a well-known Marathi poet and writer. He was also an essayist, literary critic, and a translator....

    (गोविंद विनायक करंदीकर) popularly known as विंदा करंदीकर

  • Madhu Mangesh Karnik
    Madhu Mangesh Karnik
    Madhu Mangesh Karnik is a Marathi literary activist from Maharashtra, India.He was born on April 28, 1931, in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra.He was the president of Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Ratnagiri in 1990....

    (मधु मंगेश कर्णिक)

  • Irawati Karve
    Irawati Karve
    Irawati Karve was an Indian anthropologist, educationist, and a writer from Maharashtra, India. She was born at Irawati to G. H. Karmarkar, engineer in Myingyan, Burma, so as to commemorate birth place secrede river iravati, she was given name 'Iravati'...

    (इरावती कर्वे)

  • Janardan Nilkanth Karve (जनार्दन नीळकंठ कर्वे): Wrote popular science articles.

  • Madhav Keshav Katdare (माधव केशव काटदरे) (1892–1958): Kavi Madhav Yanchi Kavita (कवि माधव यांची कविता) is a collection of his poems.

  • Yashodhara Katkar (यशोधरा काटकर) (b 1954): Wrote Banjaryache Ghar (बंजार्‍याचे घर), Apporva, Alaukik, Ekameva (अपूर्व, अलौकिक, एकमेव), Prawas-Paryatanache Nawe Pailoo (प्रवासपर्यटनाचे नवे पैलू), Swayam Shikshit, Swayam Prakashit (स्वयं शिक्षित, स्वयं प्रकाशित), Moolmantra Kariarcha (मूलमंत्र करिअरचा), and Third Person.

  • Dattatray Raghunath Kavthekar
    Datta Raghunath Kavthekar
    Dattatreya Raghunath Kavthekar Dattatreya Raghunath Kavthekar Dattatreya Raghunath Kavthekar ((Devanagari: दत्तात्रेय रघुनाथ कवठेकर) (1901 – 1979) was a Marathi novelist from Maharashtra, India.He was born in 1901 in Wai, Maharashtra. He lost both of his parents at an early age. After his high...

    (दत्त रघुनाथ कवठेकर)

  • Madhukar Keche
    Madhukar Keche
    Madhukar Keche was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.His writings include:* Biographies Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj and Shri Sant Gadge Maharaj...

    (मधुकर केचे)

  • Anant Viththal Keer
    Anant Viththal Keer
    Anant Viththal Keer was a biographer from Maharashtra, India. He wrote biographies in English and Marathi under the pen name Dhananajay Keer .Keer was born on April 23, 1913 in Ratnagiri...

    (अनंत विठ्ठल कीर): Pen name Dhananjay Keer (धनंजय कीर).

  • Girija Keer
    Girija Keer
    Girija Keer is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.She started her career as a school teacher in a village....

    (गिरिजा कीर)

  • Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar
    Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar
    Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar is a linguist and critical Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He received a master's degree in English and French literature from Pune University, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from Cornell University in the US. For a few years, he served as a professor at Agra University...

    (अशोक रामचंद्र केळकर)

  • Dattatraya Keshav Kelkar (दत्तात्रय केशव केळकर): Wrote Sanskruti Sangam (संस्कृति-संगम), Kawyalochan (काव्यालोचन), and Wadali Ware (वादळी वारे).

  • Digambar Gangadhar Kelkar (दिगंबर गंगाधर केळकर) (1896–1990): Wrote poems under the pen name Adnyatwasi (अज्ञातवासी).

  • Diwakar Krushna Kelkar
    Diwakar Krushna Kelkar
    Diwakar Krushna Kelkar was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He wrote short stories, plays, and novels under the name Diwakar Krushna ....

    (दिवाकर कृष्ण केळकर)

  • G. K. Kelkar (केळकर): Wrote Marathi Sahityache Simhavalokan (मराठी साहित्याचे सिंहावलोकन) (1966).

  • Girijabai Kelkar (गिरिजाबाई केळकर): Writer of short stories in the early part of the 20th century. (Daughter of Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar.)

  • Manohar Mahadev Kelkar (मनोहर महादेव केळकर) (1913–1994): Edited literary monthly Vangmay-Shobha (वाङ्‌मयशोभा) for many years starting in 1939. The book Te Maajhe Ghar (ते माझे घर) contains a collection of his articles.

  • Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar
    Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar
    Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar was a literary and political figure from Maharashtra, India.He was born on August 24, 1872 in the town of Modnimb near Miraj...

    (नरसिंह चिंतामण केळकर)

  • Y. N. Kelkar (य. न. केळकर): Historian. Compiled Marathi ballads from earlier times in Aitihasik Powade (ऐतिहासिक पोवाडे) in two volumes. He also wrote Wasaicha Sangram (वसईचा संग्राम).

  • Mahesh Keluskar (महेश केळुसकर): Poet. Jhinajhinat (झिनझिनाट) is the title of a collection of his poetry.

  • Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar
    Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar
    Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar was a sociologist, historian and novelist from Maharashtra, India...

    (श्रीधर वेंकटेश केतकर)

Kulkarni Ashok Dattatraya : Author . " Maharana Pratapancha Rajvansh " detail history of states of Rajsthan and Mevar Dynasty.
  • Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar
    Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar
    Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar ((Devanagari: कृष्णाजी प्रभाकर खाडिलकर) (1872 - 1948) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.Khadilkar was born on November 25, 1872 in Sangli. At age 15, he wrote a novel, and the next year he wrote a...

    (कृष्णाजी प्रभाकर खाडिलकर)

  • D. P. Khambete
    D. P. Khambete
    D. P. Khambete was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.Khambete wrote short stories, some of them being of the humorous kind...

    (द. पां. खांबेटे)

  • Rajan Khan (राजन खान)

  • Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
    Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
    Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar was an eminent Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.-Early life:...

    (विष्णु सीताराम खांडेकर)

  • Chintamani Tryambak Khanolkar
    Chintamani Tryambak Khanolkar
    Chintamani Tryambak Khanolkar was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He wrote poetry under the name “Arati Prabhu” and prose under his own name...

    (चिंतामणी त्र्यंबक खानोलकर)

  • Shankar Ramchandra Kharat (शंकर रामचंद्र खरात)

  • Ganesh Hari Khare (गजानन हरि खरे): A historian member of Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal (भारत इतिहास संशोधक मंडळ), Pune. ShivaShahir Babasaheb Purandare (शिवशाहीर बाबासाहेब पुरंदरे) is his disciple.

  • Sandeep Khare
    Sandeep Khare
    Sandeep Khare is a Marathi poet, songwriter, Copywriter and singer from Pune, Maharashtra, India. So far he has published 3 of his books which are poetry collections, namely, 'Kadhi He..Kadhi Te..', 'Maunachi Bhashantare' which has had record breaking sales with 7 editions sold out in just 3...

    (संदीप खरे)

  • Suresh Khare (सुरेश खरे): Playwright.

  • Vasudevshastri Khare (वासुदेवशास्त्री खरे) (1858–1924): A historian and playwright. (There is a chapter on him in Chintamanrao Kolhatkar's Bahurupi (बहुरूपी) book.)

  • Shrinivas Kharkar (श्रीनिवास खारकर): Poet.

  • Jagadish Khebudkar
    Jagadish Khebudkar
    A Marathi litterateur and noted lyricist of Marathi cinema "Jagdish Khebudkar" .Having written seven songs for V. Shantaram's Marathi film Pinjra, he was felicitated the V...

    (जगदीश खेबुडकर) (b. 1932): Poet. Has written over 2,500 lyrics for over 300 Marathi movies, and over 3,500 poems.

  • Visoba Khechar (विसोबा खेचर): A sant (संत) poet.

  • B. D. Kher (भ. दा. खेर): Historical novelist.

  • Chandrakant Khot (चंद्रकांत खोत): Wrote Sanyashyachi Sawali (संन्याशाची सावली), Bimba Pratibimba (बिंब प्रतिबिंब), Anathancha Nath (अनाथांचा नाथ), and Apabhraunsha (अपभ्रंश).

  • Madhav Vinayak Kibe
    Madhav Vinayak Kibe
    Madhav Vinayak Kibe was a scholar from Maharashtra, India. He was from Kibe family founded by Vithalrao Mahadeo Kibe, known as Tantya Jog, the Prime Minister to Maharaja Malhar Rao Holkar....

    (माधव विनायक किबे)

  • Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar
    Annasaheb Kirloskar
    Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar , popularly known as Annasaheb Kirloskar, was a Marathi playwright from Maharashtra, India.Kirloskar was born on March 31, 1843 in Gurlhosur in Belgaum district....

    (बळवंत पांडुरंग किर्लोस्कर)

  • Vinayak Janardan Kirtane (विनायक जनार्दन कीर्तने) (1840–1891): Wrote historic play "Thorale Madhavrao Peshwe (थोरले माधवराव पेशवे) (1861).

  • Kanhoba Ranchhodadas Kirtikar (कान्होबा रणछोडदास कीर्तिकर): Presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

     (मराठी साहित्य सम्मेलन) in Baroda in 1909. Wrote the elegy Wilap Lahari (विलापलहरी).

  • Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar
    Arun Kolatkar
    Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar was a poet from Maharashtra, India. Writing in both Marathi and English, his poems found humor in many everyday matters. His poetry had an influence on modern Marathi poets...

    (अरुण बालकृष्ण कोलटकर)

  • Achyut Vaman Kolhatkar (अच्युत वामन कोल्हटकर) (1879–1931): Assumed the name Achyut Balawant Kolhatkar (अच्युत बळवंत कोल्हटकर). Founded daily newspaper Sandesh (संदेश).

  • Balkrushna Hari Kolhatkar (बाळकृष्ण हरी कोल्हटकर) (1926–1994): Playwright and poet who used the name बाळ कोल्हटकर.

  • Chintaman Ganesh Kolhatkar (चिंतामण गणेश कोल्हटकर) (1891–1959): Founded Balwant Natak Company (बळवंत नाटक कंपनी) with Dinanath Mangeshkar and Krishnarao Kolhapure. Received in 1958 a Sahitya Akademi Award for his autobiographical Bahuroopi (बहुरूपी).

  • Shripad Krushna Kolhatkar
    Shripad Krushna Kolhatkar
    Shripad Krushna Kolhatkar was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He was born on June 29, 1871 in Nagpur. While in high school, he wrote a play named Sukha Malika...

    (श्रीपाद कृष्ण कोल्हटकर)

  • Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte
    Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte
    Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte was a Marathi writer and researcher of old Marathi literature. He hailed from Maharashtra, India.-Life:...

    (विष्णु भिकाजी कोलते)

  • Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle
    Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle
    Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle is an educationist and Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. Currently, he is the vice chancellor of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, whose seat is in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.-Early life and education:He was born on March 29, 1948 in the town of Mukhed...

    (नागनाथ लालुजीराव कोट्टापल्ले)

  • Sumati Kshetramade
    Sumati Kshetramade
    Sumati Kshetramade is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.A major theme of her novels is exploitation of women.Kshetramade is a physician by profession.Her novels include:* Shrāvaṇadhārā...

    (सुमती क्षेत्रमाडे)

  • Shrikrushna Keshav Kshirsagar
    Shrikrushna Keshav Kshirsagar
    Shrikrushna Keshav Kshirsagar was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He was born on November 6, 1901 in the town of Pali in Satara District. After finishing his high school education in Tembhurni, he obtained his college education at Fergusson College in Pune...

    (श्रीकृष्ण केशव क्षीरसागर)

  • Viththal Anant Kshirasagar (विठ्ठल अनंत क्षीरसागर) (1628–1690): Poet with pen name Viththal (विठ्ठल). Wrote Panchali Stawan (पांचालीस्तवन), Rukmini Swayamwar (रुक्मिणीस्वयंवर), Sita Swayamwar (सीतास्वयंवर), Draupadi Wastraharan (द्रौपदीवस्त्रहरण), Widwajiwan (विद्वजीवन), and Bithanacharitra (बिथनचरित्र).

  • Anjali Kulkarni
    Anjali Kulkarni
    Anjali Kulkarni, née Marathe is an Indian playback singer and Hindustani vocalist. Anjali learned classical music from her mother Anuradha Marathe who is herself a renowned classical and light vocalist and conducts stage shows of Marathi as well as Hindi songs. Anjali, a psychology graduate wanted...

    (अंजली कुलकर्णी): Poetess and essayist.

  • Dattatreya Bhikaji Kulkarni (born 1934) (दत्तात्रेय भिकाजी कुलकर्णी): Critic. Wrote Samikshechi Sarahadda (समीक्षेची सरहद्द), Kadambari : Swarup Wa Samiksha (कादंबरी : स्वरुप व समीक्षा), Himvantichi Sarovare (हिमवंतीची सरोवरे) and Parthivateche Udayast (पार्थिवतेचे उदयास्त).

  • Krushnaji Pandurang Kulkarni
    Krushnaji Pandurang Kulkarni
    Krushnaji Pandurang Kulkani was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.In 1952, he presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, which was held in Amalner.The following is a partial list of Kulkarni's works:...

    (कृष्णाजी पांडुरंग कुलकर्णी)

  • Gurunath Abaji Kulkarni (गुरुनाथ आबाजी कुलकर्णी)

  • Narayan Kulkarni-Kavthekar (नारायण कुलकर्णी-कवठेकर): Poet.

  • Rohini Kulkarni (रोहिणी कुलकर्णी): Writer of short stories and novels. http://www.rasik.com/cgi_bin/display_author.cgi?authorId=a52141&lang=marathi

  • Shrinivas Vinayak Kulkarni  (श्रीनिवास विनायक कुलकर्णी) (b. 1936): Essayist and editor. His books include Doh (डोह), Koradi Bhiksha (कोरडी भिक्षा), Panyache Pankh (पाण्याचे पंख), and Sonyacha Pimpal (सोन्याचा पिंपळ) .

  • Waman Lakshman Kulkarni
    Waman Lakshman Kulkarni
    Waman Lakshman Kulkarni is a Marathi literary critic from Maharashtra, India.He served during 1959-79 as the head of the department of Marathi in Marathwada University, which was later renamed as Dr...

    (वामन लक्ष्मण कुलकर्णी)

  • W. M. Kulkarni (वि. म. कुलकर्णी): Poet. Wrote Wrutte Wa Alankar (वृत्ते व अलंकार).

  • Gora Kumbhar
    Gora Kumbhar
    Sant Gora Kumbhar was one of the notable Kumhar/prajapati saints in history. He was a Maharashtra based saint.Sant Gora Kumbhar and other saints also wrote and sung hundreds of Abhangs. The central ideology of this sect was chanting of Namas-kirtana daily. This sampardaya attached least importance...

    (गोरा कुंभार): A sant (संत) poet.

  • Kunjavihari (कुंजविहारी): Poet.

  • Mahadeo Moreshwar Kunte (महादेव मोरेश्वर कुंटे) (1835–1888): Poet.

  • Pankaj Kurulkar  (पंकज कुरुळकर): A writer of short stories.

  • Narhar Ambadas Kurundkar
    Narhar Ambadas Kurundkar
    Narhar Ambadas Kurundkar was a Marathi scholar, critic and writer who wrote on political philosophies in general and cultural matters and historical events in Maharashtra, India....

    (नरहर अंबादास कुरुंदकर)

  • Jyoti Lanjewar (ज्योती लांजेवार): Poetess. Wrote the book Marathi Dalit Kadambaritil Stri Chitran (मराठी दलित कादंबरीतील स्त्री चित्रण).

  • Sanjiv Latkar (संजीव लाटकर): Novelist and short story writer. Password/Not For Sale (पासवर्ड/ नॉट फॉर सेल), Ganj/Take Over (गंज/टेक ओव्हर), Ani Vidyechya Bailala (आणि विद्येच्या बैलाला), and Tamaso Ma (तमसो मा) are his four books.

  • Viththal Bhagawant Lembhe (विठ्ठल भगवंत लेंभे): Poet.

  • Gopal Gangadhar Limaye (गोपाळ गंगाधर लिमये) (1891-?): Writer of short stories and humorous essays in the early part of the 20th century. Juna Bajar (जुना बाजार) is one collection of his humorous essays.

  • Narayan Gangadhar Limaye (नारायण गंगाधर लिमये): Poet.

  • Padma Lokur (पद्मा लोकूर) (b. 1931): Poetess.

  • M. G. Londhe (मो. ग. लोंढे): Poet.

  • Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar (गजानन दिगंबर माडगूळकर)

  • Vyankatesh Digambar Madgulkar (व्यंकटेश दिगंबर माडगूळकर)

  • Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar (गजानन त्र्यंबक माडखोलकर)

  • Kavita Mahajan (कविता महाजन): Writer of short stories, novels, and poems.

  • H. R. Mahajani (ह. रा. महाजनी): Participated in India's freedom struggle during British rule. Believed in socialist philosophy. Past editor of Lokasatta (लोकसत्ता) newspaper. Wrote Apale Arthik Niyojan (आपलें आर्थिक नियोजन) (1955).

  • Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani
    Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani
    Rao Bahadur Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani was a Marathi poet and playwright from Maharashtra, India.-Biography:...

    (विष्णु मोरेश्वर महाजनी)

  • Namdev Dhondo Mahanor (नामदेव धोंडो महानोर): Poet. Received in 2000 Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award
    Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...

     for his collection of poems Panzad (पानझड). Palaskhedachi Gani (पळसखेडची गाणी) and Pawasali Kawita (पावसाळी कविता) are two other collections of his poems.

  • Mahipati
    Mahipati
    Mahipati was an author who wrote in Marāthi biographies of the prominent Hindu saints who had lived between the 13th and the 17th centuries in Mahārāshtra, India....

    (महीपती)

  • Savanta Mali (सावंता माळी): A sant (संत) poet.

  • Sakharam Gangadhar Malshe (सखाराम गंगाधर मालशे) (1921–1992): Researcher and Critic. Wrote scholarly Gata Shatak Shodhatana (गत शतक शोधताना) and Taratamya (तारतम्य) concerning the 19th century. Coedited भाषाविज्ञान परिचय and भाषाविज्ञान : वर्णनात्मक आणि ऐतिहासिक . Wrote critical works Awad Niwad (आवडनिवड), Agale Wegale (आगळेवेगळे), and Nirkshar (निरक्षर). Also wrote Runanubandhanchya Gathi (ऋणानुबंधांच्या गाठी).

  • Laxman Bapu Mane
    Laxman Mane
    Laxman Bapu Mane is a Marathi writer and a social activitist from Maharashtra, India. Mane came to sudden fame after publishing his autobiography Upara, , in 1980...

    (लक्ष्मण बापू माने)

  • Madhav Manohar (माधव मनोहर): Playwright. Wrote the book Panchamwedh (पंचमवेध).

  • Shyam Manohar (श्याम मनोहर): Novelist. Received in 2008 a Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Utsukatene Mi Zopalo (उत्सुकतेने मी झोपलो).

  • Yashwant Manohar (यशवंत मनोहर): Poet. Utthan Gumpha (उत्थान गुंफा) and Jiwanayan (जीवनायन) are the titles of his collections of poems. Manohar also wrote critical Bal Sitaram Mardhekar (बाळ सीताराम मर्ढेकर).

  • Ramesh Mantri
    Ramesh Mantri
    Ramesh Mantri was a Marathi writer primarily of humor from Maharashtra, India.He attended Rajaram College in Kolhapur from where he graduated...

    (रमेश मंत्री)

  • H. M. Marathe
    H. M. Marathe
    H. M. Marathe is a Marathi journalist, novelist, and writer of short stories from Maharashtra, India.A list of 16 books by Marathe H. M. Marathe (Devanagari: ह. मो. मराठे) is a Marathi journalist, novelist, and writer of short stories from Maharashtra, India.A list of 16 books by Marathe H. M....

    (ह. मो. मराठे)

  • Sanjivani Marathe (संजीवनी मराठे) (1916–2000): Poetess.

  • Bal Sitaram Mardhekar (बाळ सीताराम मर्ढेकर)

  • Shripad Mahadev Mate
    Shripad Mahadev Mate
    Shripad Mahadev Mate was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.Mate served for some years as a teacher at Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya and then as a professor at S. P...

    (श्रीपाद महादेव माटे)

  • Ratnakar Ramkrushna Matkari
    Ratnakar Matkari
    Ratnakar Ramkrushna Matkari is a Marathi writer, a movie and play producer/director, and a self-taught artist from Maharashtra, India....

    (रत्नाकर रामकृष्ण मतकरी)

  • Vasudeo Govind Maydeo (वासुदेव गोविंद मायदेव): Poet. Bhawa Tarang (भावतरंग) is the title of his poem collection.

  • P. L. Mayekar (प्र. ल. मयेकर): Playwright. Wrote Deep Stambh (दीपस्तंभ) and Agni Pankh (अग्निपंख).

  • Gajanan Bhaskar Mehendale: (गजानन भास्कर मेहेंदळे): Historian.

  • Keshav Tanaji Meshram
    Keshav Meshram
    Keshav Tanaji Meshram was a Marathi dalit poet, critic, novelist, and short-story writer from Maharashtra, India. He wrote about 40 books.-Early life:...

    (केशव तानाजी मेश्राम)

  • Bhujang Meshram (भुजंग मेश्राम) (d. 2007): Poet. Ulgulan (ऊलगुलान) and Abhuja Maad (अभुज माड) are the titles of his two poetry collections.

  • Arun Mhatre (अरुण म्हात्रे): Poet.

  • Dattaram Maruti Mirasdar (दत्ताराम मारुती मिरासदार)

  • Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi
    Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi
    Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi was a prominent Indologist of the 20th century. He hailed from Maharashtra, India.-Career:After a brilliant educational career at the University of Bombay, Mirashi was appointed in 1919 to the Sanskrit chair at Morris College in Nagpur. He was appointed principal of the same...

    (वासुदेव विष्णु मिराशी)

  • Ambarish Mishra (अंबरीश मिश्रा): Wrote Gangemadhya Gagan Witalale (गंगेमध्ये गगन वितळले).

  • Kashinath Hari Modak (काशीनाथ हरि मोडक) (1872–1918): Wrote poetry under the pen name Madhavanuj (माधवानुज).

  • Gangadhar Ramchandra Mogare (गंगाधर रामचंद्र मोगरे) (1857–1915): Poet.

  • Sudhir Moghe (सुधीर मोघे): Poet. Wrote Ganari Wat (गाणारी वाट ) and Anubandh (अनुबंध).

  • Digambar Balkrushna Mokashi (दिगंबर बाळकृष्ण मोकाशी) (1915-?): Writer of short stories, three of his compilations being Mokashi Yanchi Katha (मोकाशी यांची कथा), Jara Jaoon Yeto (जरा जाऊन येतो), and Sat Laksha Paval.n (सात लक्ष पावलं).

  • Sadanand More (सदानंद मोरे): Received in 1998 a Sahitya Akademi Award for his work Tukaram Darshan (तुकाराम दर्शन).

  • Muktabai
    Muktabai
    Muktabai or Muktai was a saint in the Varkari tradition. She was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family and was the younger sister of Dnyaneshwar, the first Varkari saint. Muktabai wrote forty-one Abhang throughout her life span. "Tati ughada dnaneshwara" is one her most insightful works, being a...

    (मुक्ताबाई): 13th century poetess. Sister of Dnyaneshwar (ज्ञानेश्वर).

  • Mukteshwar
    Mukteshwar
    Mukteshwar is a town and tourist destination in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand, India. It sits high in the Kumaon Hills at an altitude of 2286 meters , 51 km from Nainital, 72 km from Haldwani, and 395 km from Delhi....

    (मुक्तेश्वर) (1609–c.1660): Translated Mahabharata into Marathi.

  • Sharchchandra Muktibodh
    Sharchchandra Muktibodh
    Sharchchandra Muktibodh was a Marathi literary critique and poet from Maharashtra, India.-Novels:* Sarahadda * Jan He Wolatu Jethe * Kshipra...

    (शरच्चंद्र मुक्तिबोध)

  • Mukundraj
    Mukundraj
    Marathi literature scholars generally regard Mukundraj , who lived probably during 1128 - 1200 , as the first poet—indeed the first writer—in Marathi...

    (मुकुंदराज)

  • Vasanti Muzumdar
    Vasanti Muzumdar
    Vasanti Muzumdar was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.She was born in 1939 in Karad, Maharashtra....

    (वासंती मुझुमदार)

  • Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni (ज्ञानेश्वर नाडकर्णी) (b 1928): Story writer, novelist, biographer, and literary and art critic. Has written 25 books, including Ashwatthachi Salsal (अश्वत्थाची सळसळ); and Walayankit (वलयांकित), a biographical book about Bal Gandharva (बालगंधर्व).

  • Namdev
    Namdev
    Sant Namdeo or Bhagat Namdeo was born on October 29, 1270 in the state of Maharashtra village of Narasi-Bamani, in Hingoli district . His father, a calico printer/tailor, was named Damshet and his mother's name was Gonabai...

    (नामदेव)

  • Shantaram Nandgaonkar (शांताराम नंदगांवकर) (1934–2009): Poet and playwright.

  • Sudha Narawane (सुधा नरवणे): Writer of short stories. Wrote Laman Diwa (लामणदिवा) (1970), Saranam Gachchami (सरणं गच्छामि), and Janani Mata Kanya Matrutwa (जननी माता कन्या मातृत्व).

  • Shanta Nashikkar (शांता नाशिककर): Novelist.

  • Gopal Narhar Natu (गोपाळ नरहर नातू) (1911–1999): Poet with pen name Manmohan (मनमोहन). Aditya (आदित्य) (1971) is a collection of his poems.

  • Shankar Narayan Navare (शंकर नारायण नवरे) (b. 1927): Has written short stories, novels, plays, newspaper columns, and scripts for movies and TV serials. Manatale Kans/Ekamek (मनातले कंस/एकमेक) is a collection of his short stories.

  • Ashok Naigaonkar (अशोक नायगांवकर): Writer of comic poetry and short stories.

  • Bhalchandra Nemade
    Bhalchandra Nemade
    Bhalchandra Vanaji Nemade is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.-Life:Nemade was born in 1938 in the village of Sangavi in Khandesh. He received his bachelor's degree from Fergusson College in Pune and Master's degree in Linguistics from Deccan College in Pune and English Literature from...

    (भालचंद्र नेमाडे)

  • K. B. Nikumbh (कृ. ब. निकुंभ): Poet.

  • Waman Nimbalkar (वामन निंबाळकर): Poet. GawkusaBaheril Kawita (गावकुसाबाहेरील कविता) is the title of his poem collection.

  • Jai Nimbkar (जाई निंबकर): Story writer and novelist. Daughter of Irawati Karve
    Irawati Karve
    Irawati Karve was an Indian anthropologist, educationist, and a writer from Maharashtra, India. She was born at Irawati to G. H. Karmarkar, engineer in Myingyan, Burma, so as to commemorate birth place secrede river iravati, she was given name 'Iravati'...

     and sister of Gauri Deshpande
    Gauri Deshpande
    Gauri Deshpande was a novelist, short story writer, and poet from Maharashtra, India. She wrote in Marathi and English....

    .

  • Gangadhar Bhaskar Nirantar (गंगाधर भास्कर निरंतर): Wrote Marathi Wangmayacha Paramarsha (मराठी वाङ्मयाचा परामर्ष) (1964).

  • Manohar Shankar Oak (मनोहर शंकर ओक)

  • Shyamrao Oak (श्यामराव ओक) !907-?): Playwright.

  • Baba Padamji (बाबा पदमजी) (1831–1906): Wrote the first Marathi novel devoted to social reform in 1857 titled Yamuna Paryatan (यमुना पर्यटण).

  • Mangesh Keshav Padgaonkar (मंगेश केशव पाडगांवकर)

  • V. S. Padgaonkar (पाडगांवकर): Writer of short stories.

  • Prabhakar Narayan Padhye
    Bhau Padhye
    Prabhakar Narayan Padhye , popularly known as Bhau Padhye , was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India....

    (प्रभाकर नारायण पाध्ये) (भाऊ पाध्ये)

  • Prabhakar Atmaram Padhye (प्रभाकर आत्माराम पाध्ये) (1909–1984): Journalist, editor, story writer, critic, novelist. Edited periodical Dhanurdhari (धनुर्धारी). Received in 1982 a Sahitya Akademi Award for his work ’'Saundaryanubha”' (सौंदर्यानुभव). (His wife Kamal wrote her memoirs after his death.)

  • Mangesh Bhagawant Padki (मंगेश भगवंत पदकी) (1923–1999): Writer of short stories, novels, and plays. His short story collections include Vibhoot (विभूत), Kharichi Pille (खारीची पिल्ले), and Yakshagan (यक्षगण). His novels include Kashabhat (काशाभट) and Jiwalag Maj Kahinche (जिवलग मज काहींचे). Wrote the play Rao Jagdeo Martand (राव जगदेव मार्तंड).

  • Sarita Padki (सरिता पदकी) (b. 1928): Writer of short stories, poetry, and literature for children. Wrote Kalokhachi Lek (काळोखाची लेक), Badha (बाधा) (1955), Bara Ramanche Deool (बारा रामांचं देऊळ) (1963). Anganat Majhya (अंगणात माझ्या) and Lagangandhar (लगनगंधार) are the titles of two collections of her poems. (Wife of Mangesh Bhagawant Padki.)

  • Setu Madhavrao Pagdi
    Setu Madhavrao Pagdi
    Setu Madhavrao Pagdi was a historian from India.He was educated in Gulbarga, Usmanabad, and Pune. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Banaras Hindu University in 1930 and Master of Arts degree from Allahabad University three years later.He was well-versed in Urdu and Persian.-In...

    (सेतु माधवराव पगडी)

  • Shirish Pai
    Shirish Atre-Pai
    Shirish Pai is a social worker and a writer from Maharashtra, India. She has written in Marathi and English, primarily the former.Shirish is the elder daughter of Acharya Atre. She has a college degree in Law....

    (शिरीष पै)

  • Dadoba Pandurang (दादोबा पांडुरंग) (1814–1882): Wrote a critic Yashoda-Pandurangi (यशोदा-पांडुरंगी) (1875) on Kekavali (केकावली) by Moropant.

  • Laxman Ramchandra Pangarkar (लक्ष्मण रामचंद्र पांगारकर) (1872–1941): Wrote and edited books on Marathi sant (संत) literature. Ran a periodical named Mumukshu (मुमुक्षु) in the 1920s. Wrote Bhakti-Marga-Pradip (भक्तिमार्गप्रदीप).

  • Gangadhar Pantavane (गंगाधर पानतावणे) (b. 1937): Dalit
    Dalit
    Dalit is a designation for a group of people traditionally regarded as Untouchable. Dalits are a mixed population, consisting of numerous castes from all over South Asia; they speak a variety of languages and practice a multitude of religions...

     writer and critic. Founded Asmitadarsha (अस्मितादर्श) quarterly magazine in 1968. पत्रकार डॉ.बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर, डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांचे निवडक लेख, दलित वैचारिक वाङ्मय, अर्थ आणि अन्वयार्थ, चैत्य, स्मृतिशेष, and लेणी are the titles of some of his books.

  • Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi
    Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi
    Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi , popularly known as either Balasaheb Pant Pratinidhi or Bhawanrao Balasaheb Pant Pratinidhi was the enlightened ruler during November 4, 1909 - August 15, 1947 of the tiny princely state of Aundh in...

    (भवानराव श्रीनिवासराव पंतप्रतिनिधी)

  • Shrikrushna Damodar Panwalkar (श्रीकृष्ण दामोदर पानवलकर) (1928–1985): Kanchan (कांचन), Sanjari (संजारी), Shooting (शूटिंग), Audumbar (औदुंबर), Surya (सूर्य), and Shri. Da. Panwalkar Yanchi Katha (श्री. दा. पानवलकर यांची कथा) are the titles of collections of his short stories.

  • Tulashi Parab (तुळशी परब): Poetess. Hillol (हिल्लोळ) is the title of a collection of her poetry.

  • Moropant RamjI Paradkar
    Moropant
    Moreshwar Ramji Paradkar , popularly known in Maharashtra as Moropant or Mayur Pandit , was a Marathi poet who was the last among those classified by Marathi literary scholars as pandit poets...

    (मोरोपंत रामजी पराडकर)

  • Shivram Mahadev Paranjape
    Shivram Mahadev Paranjape
    Shivram Mahadev Paranjape was an eminent Marathi writer, scholar, orator, journalist and freedom fighter from Maharashtra...

    (शिवराम महादेव परांजपे)

  • Shakuntala Paranjapye (शकुंतला परांजप्ये)(1906–2000): Writer and social worker. Wrote (भिल्लिणीची बोरे). (Daughter of Wrangler Raghunath Purushottam Paranjape and mother of film director Sai Paranjape.)

  • Parasharam (परशराम) (c.1754-1844): A shahir (शाहीर) poet.

  • Dattatray Balwant Parasnis
    Dattatray Balwant Parasnis
    Dattatray Balwant Parasnis was a historian from Maharashtra, India, who lived during the British Raj days.He authored many books about Indian history...

    (दत्तात्रय बळवंत पारसनीस)

  • V. S. Pargaonkar
    V. S. Pargaonkar
    V. S. Pargaonkar was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He wrote twenty-five books, including novels and collections of his short stories, critiques, and essays.-Authorship:...

    (वि. शं. पारगावकर)

  • Godavari Shyam Parulekar (गोदावरी श्याम परुळेकर) (1908-?): Received in 1972 a Sahitya Akademi Award for her autobiographical Jevha Manus Jaga Hoto (जेव्हा माणूस जागा होतो).

  • Rajani Parulekar (रजनी परुळेकर): Poetess. Chitra (चित्र) is the title of the collection of her poetry.

  • Rajaram Bhalchandra Patankar (राजाराम भालचंद्र पाटणकर) (b. 1927): Received in 1975 a Sahitya Akademi Award for his work Soundarya Mimansa (सौंदर्य मीमांसा).

  • Yusufkhan Mohamadkhan Pathan
    Yusufkhan Mohamadkhan Pathan
    Yusufkhan Mohamadkhan Pathan is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He has a doctorate in Marathi literature, which he obtained in 1958 from Pune for his thesis on "Marathi bakharitil Pharasiche-swarup , for which he won the Paranjape award for the best dissertation in Marathi...

    (युसुफखान मोहमदखान पठाण)

  • Ranganath Pathare (रंगनाथ पठारे): Received in 1999 a Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Tamrapat (ताम्रपट). Kalap (कळप), Bhandar Bhog (भंडारभोग), and Haran (हारण)

  • Anand Patil (आनंद पाटील): Wrote literary criticisms Kahi Deshi Kahi Videshi (काही देशी काही विदेशी) and Srujanatmak Lekhan (सृजनात्मक लेखन).

  • Anuradha Patil (अनुराधा पाटील): Poetess.

  • Ganesh Hari Patil (गणेश हरी पाटील): Poet.

  • Nalesh Patil (नलेश पाटील): Poet.

  • Nivruttinath Raoji Patil (निवृत्तिनाथ रावजी पाटील) (d. 1997): A poet. Pen name P. Savlaram (पी. सावळाराम).

  • Purushottam Patil (पुरुषोत्तम पाटील): Poet. http://www.rasik.com/cgi_bin/display_author.cgi?authorId=a18312&lang=marathi

  • Shankar Babaji Patil
    Shankar Babaji Patil
    Shankar Babaji Patil was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.Patil was born in 1926 in Pattan-Kodoli in Kolhapur District. He attended high school in Gadhinglaj and college in Kolhapur to earn his B.A. and B.T...

    (शंकर बाबाजी पाटील)

  • Vishwas Mahipati Patil (विश्वास महीपती पाटील)

  • Vasudha Patil
    Vasudha Patil
    Vasudha Patil is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.She started writing in the 1970s Marathi short stories and one-act plays, some of which pertain to the contemporary change in the role of women in Marathi-speaking society, economic and intellectual freedom of women, and assertion of...

    (वसुधा पाटील)

  • Gangadhar Patwardhan (गंगाधर पटवर्धन): Presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

     (मराठी साहित्य सम्मेलन) in Mumbai in 1915.

  • Madhav Trimbak Patwardhan
    Madhav Julian
    Madhav Julian was the pen name which Madhav Trimbak Patwardhan used in writing Marathi poetry.He hailed from Maharashtra, India.-Biography:...

    (माधव त्रिंबक पटवर्धन): Pen name Madhav Julian (माधव जूलियन).

  • Ram Patwardhan (राम पटवर्धन): Critic. Editor of Satyakatha (सत्यकथा) magazine.

  • Vasundhara Patwardhan (वसुंधरा पटवर्धन) (1917–2010): Wrote Hay (हाय)

  • Daya Pawar
    Dagdu Maruti Pawar
    Daya Pawar or Dagdu Maruti Pawar was born to a Mahar Dalit family in Dhamangaon , was a Marathi author and poet known for his contributions to Dalit literature that dealt with the atrocities experienced by the dalits or untouchables under the Indian caste system.-Baluta:He gained fame for his...

    (दया पवार)

  • G. M. Pawar (गो. मा. पवार): Received in 2007 a Sahitya Akademi Award for his Charitra: Viththal Ramji Shinde (चरित्र : विठ्ठल रामजी शिंदे). Coauthored with M. D. Hatkananglekar Nivadak Marathi Samiksha (निवडक मराठी समीक्षा).

  • Jayant Pawar (जयंत पवार): Playwright.

  • Pradnya Daya Pawar
    Pradnya Daya Pawar
    Pradnya Daya Pawar, also known as Pradnya Lokhande is a Marathi poet. She is a member of Maharashtra State Literary and Cultural Board.-Poetry collections:* Antahstha * Utkat Jiwaghenya Dhagiwar...

    (प्रज्ञा दया पवार)

  • Urmila Pawar (उर्मिला पवार): Writer of short stories. Wrote autobiographical Ayadan (आयदान).

  • Prabhakar Pendharkar (प्रभाकर पेंढारकर) (b. 1932): Wrote novels Wagharu (वाघरू), Trishanku (त्रिशंकू), Shodha Yatra (शोधयात्रा), and Madhya Latapatit (मध्य लटपटीत)

  • Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar
    Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar
    Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India. He wrote poetry under the pen name Yashwant ....

    (यशवंत दिनकर पेंढरकर). Kawi Yashwant (कवि यशवंत)

  • Shankar Damodar Pendse
    Shankar Damodar Pendse
    Shankar Damodar Pendse was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He chaired Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Pandharpur in 1955.-Literary work:The following are Pendse's major works:...

    (शंकर दामोदर पेंडसे)

  • Shripad Narayan Pendse
    Shripad Narayan Pendse
    Shripad Narayan Pendse was a writer of several Marathi novels. He hailed from Maharashtra, India.His novel Rathachakra received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963....

    (श्रीपाद नारायण पेंडसे)

  • Meghana Pethe (मेघना पेठे): Wrote novel Naticharami (नातिचरामि). Her short story books include Hans Akela (हंस अकेला) and Andhalyachya Gayi (आंधळ्याच्या गायी).

  • Kamala Phadke (कमला फडके) (1916–1980): Writer of short stories and novels. Wrote Jethe Na Umalati Shabda Phule (जेथे न उमलती शब्द फुले) and Teri Chup Meri Chuup (तेरी चूप मेरी चूप). Jointly published with her husband Narayan Sitaram Phadke short story collections titled Bajuband (बाजुबंद) and Attar-Gulab (अत्तर-गुलाब).

  • Narayan Sitaram Phadke (नारायण सीताराम फडके)

  • Yashawant Dinkar Phadke (यशवंत दिनकर फडके)

  • Nirmalkumar Phadkule (निर्मलकुमार फडकुले) (1928–2006): Critic and scholar of sant (संत) literature.

  • Narahar Raghunath Phatak (नरहर रघुनाथ फाटक)

  • Padmaja Phatak (पद्मजा फाटक): Writer of short stories. Wrote together with Madhav Nerurkar Barala Daha Kami (बाराला दहा कमी),

  • Vasant Narhar Phene
    Vasant Narhar Phene
    Vasant Narhar Phene is a Marathi language author. Mr. Phene was born on April 28, 1926 in India. He is well-known in Maharashtra for his novels and articles. In 2004, he received the N.S. Phadke Award for his work...

    (वसंत नरहर फेणे)

  • Jyotiba Phule (ज्योतिबा फुले)

  • Vikas Damodar Pingale
    Vikas Damodar Pingale
    Vikas Damodar Pingale is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.-Works:Collections of poems:* विरह* झोपडीतला जीव* मन* गावशीव* ऊन-सावल्या* निसटते क्षणBiographies:* लहुजी वस्ताद* संत गाडगेबाबा* अण्णाभाऊ साठे* मामा मोहोळ...

    (विकास दामोदर पिंगळे)

  • Ravindra Pinge
    Ravindra Pinge
    Ravindra Pinge was a Marathi writer.His family hailed from the Konkan region of Maharashtra, India. Though he grew up in Mumbai, his writings depicted his love for Konkan...

    (रविंद्र पिंगे)

  • Dwarkanath Madhav Pitale
    Dwarkanath Madhav Pitale
    Dwarkanath Madhav Pitale was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He wrote under the pen name Nath Madhav historical and social novels, the latter dealing with encouragement of women’s education and remarriages of widows, condemnation of the abhorrent practice of arranged marriages of...

    (द्वारकानाथ माधव पितळे) (नाथमाधव)

  • Anuradha Potdar (अनुराधा पोतदार): Poetess.

  • Datto Vaman Potdar
    Datto Vaman Potdar
    Dattatray Vaman Potdar , better known as Datto Vaman Potdar, was an eminent Indian historian, writer, and orator. He was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Pune during 1961 - 1964....

    (दत्तो वामन पोतदार)

  • Shrikrushna Powale (श्रीकृष्ण पोवळे): Poet. Agni kawya (अग्निकाव्य) is the title of the collection of his poetry.

  • Baban Prabhu (बबन प्रभू) (1929–1981): Wrote farcical plays Jhopi Gelela Jaga Jhala (झोपी गेलेला जागा झाला) (1958) and Dinuchya Sasubai Radhabai (दिनूच्या सासूबाई राधाबाई) (1960).

  • Ganesh Prabhakar Pradhan (गणेश प्रभाकर प्रधान) (b. 1922): Biographist.

  • Vidhyadhar Gangadhar Pundalik  (विद्याधर गंगाधर पुंडलीक) (1924–1989): Critic and writer of short stories and plays.

  • Babasaheb Purandare
    Babasaheb Purandare
    Balwant Moreshwar Purandare , popularly known as Shivshahir Babasaheb Purandare is a historian, writer and theatre personality from Maharashtra, India. His works are mostly based on the events related to the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj...

    (बाबासाहेब पुरंदरे)

  • Keshav Jagannath Purohit
    Keshav Jagannath Purohit
    Keshav Jagannath Purohit is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He wrote using the pen name Shantaram ....

    (केशव जगन्नाथ पुरोहित)

  • Raghunath Pandit
    Raghunath Pandit
    Raghunath Pandit was a Marathi poet who was active around the year 1800.Marathi poetry went through a phase where text drew heavily on religious mythology and was dominated by language influenced by Sanskrit, a language which few in contemporary times understand. This literature is called...

    (रघुनाथपंडित)

  • B. Raghunath (रघुनाथ): Dramatist, short story writer, and poet from Marathwada.

  • Mangesh Viththal Rajadhyaksha (मंगेश विठ्ठल राजाध्यक्ष): A literary critic. Bhasha Wiwek (भाषाविवेक), Smaran Sawalya (स्मरणसावल्या), Khardeghashi (खर्डेघाशी), Ajkalche Wangmay (आजकालचे वाङ्मय), and Wad Wiwad (वाद-संवाद: निषाद आणि शमा)

  • Vijaya Rajadhyaksha
    Vijaya Rajadhyaksha
    Vijaya Rajadhyaksha is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.She studied at Rajaram College in Kolhapur, and obtained her doctorate from Mumbai University....

    (विजया राजाध्यक्ष) (b 1933): Writer, critic. Has written short stories, a book discussing Mardhekar's poetry (मर्ढेकरांची कविता), which received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993, and a book evaluating Sunita Deshpande's autobiographical आहे मनोहर तरी. (Vijaya Rajadhyaksha is the wife of Mangesh Viththal Rajadhyaksha.)

  • Shailaja Raje (शैलजा राजे): Writer of short stories and novels.

  • Krushnashastri Rajwade (कृष्णशास्त्री राजवाडे): Presided over the second Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

     (मराठी साहित्य सम्मेलन) in Pune in 1885.

  • Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade
    Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade
    Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade , popularly known as Itihasacharya Rajwade, was an eminent historian, scholar, writer, commentator and orator from Maharashtra...

    (विश्वनाथ काशीनाथ राजवाडे)

  • Shankar Ramani (शंकर रामाणी) (1922–2003): Poet. Palan (पालाण)

  • Ramdas
    Samarth Ramdas
    Ramdas was a prominent Marathi saint and religious poet in the Hindu tradition in Maharashtra, India. Samarth Ramdas was a devotee of Lord Hanuman and Lord Rama...

    (रामदास)

  • Mahadev Govind Ranade
    Mahadev Govind Ranade
    Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade was a distinguished Indian scholar, social reformer and author. He was a founding member of the Indian National Congress and owned several designations as member of the Bombay legislative council, member of the finance committee at the centre, and the judge of Bombay...

    (महादेव गोविंद रानडे): Presided over the first Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
    Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

     (मराठी साहित्य सम्मेलन) in Pune in 1878.

  • Bal Rane (बाळ राणे) (b. 1940): Writer of poetry, novels, short stories, biographies, and autobiography. http://www.saahityicbalrane.com/

  • Kumudini Rangnekar (कुमुदिनी रांगणेकर) (d. 1999): Writer of short stories and novels.

  • Motiram Gajanan Rangnekar (मोतीराम गजानन रांगणेकर) (1907-?): Wrote plays Kulawadhu (कुलवधू), Ashirwad (आशिर्वाद), Majhe Ghar (माझे घर), Kanya Dan (कन्यादान), Vahini (वहिनी), Nandanvan (नंदनवन), Alankar (अलंकार), and Rambha (रंभा).

  • Paththe Bapurao Redrekar (पठ्ठे बापूराव रेद्रेकर) (1866–1945): A shahir (शाहीर) poet.

  • Purushottam Shivaram Rege (पुरुषोत्तम शिवराम रेगे)

  • Sadanand Shantaram Rege (सदानंद शांताराम रेगे) (b. 1923): Poet and writer of short stories.

  • Eknath Pandurang Rendalkar (एकनाथ पांडुरंग रेंदाळकर): Poet. Wrote the poem अजुनी चालतोची वाट.

  • Vasant Sabnis
    Vasant Sabnis
    Vasant Sabnis was a Marathi writer from Maharastra, India.Sabnis was born on December 6, 1923. He received his high school education in Pandharpur and college education in Pune...

    (वसन्त सबनीस)

  • Arun Sadhu
    Arun Sadhu
    Arun Sadhu is a writer and a freelance journalist from Maharashtra, India. He has written in Marathi, Hindi, and English....

    (अरुण साधु)

  • Gangadhar Narayan Sahasrabuddhe (गंगाधर नारायण सहस्रबुद्धे): Writer of short stories in the early part of the 20th century.

  • Indira Sahasrabuddhe (इंदिरा सहस्रबुद्धे) (born c. 1890-?): one of the feminist novelist from the early part of the 20th century.

  • Purushottam G. Sahasrabuddhe (पुरुषोत्तम ग. सहस्रबुद्धे): Wrote biographical Lokamanya Tilak (लोकमान्य टिळक)

  • Harihar Gurunath Salgalkar (हरिहर गुरुनाथ सलगलकर): Wrote poetry under the pen name Kawyawihari (काव्यविहारी) in the early part of the 20th century.

  • Anant Samant (अनंत सामंत): Writer of novels and short stories.

  • Bal Gangadhar Samant
    Bal Samant
    Bal Gangadhar Samant was an Indian writer. He wrote around 80 books in Marathi on a wide range of topics from fiction, biography, Marathi dramas and history...

    (बाळ गंगाधर सामंत)

  • Geeta Janardan Sane
    Geeta Sane
    Geeta Janardan Sane was a feminist writer from Maharashtra, India.-Early life:Sane was born in Amravati. Her father was a teacher who later trained to be a lawyer. Both parents of Sane were progressive in their thinking. They conducted their daughters' weddings without any religious rituals...

    (गीता जनार्दन साने)

  • Pandurang Sadashiv Sane
    Pandurang Sadashiv Sane
    Pandurang Sadashiv Sane , affectionately known as Sane Guruji to his students and followers was a famous Marathi author, teacher, social activist, and freedom fighter from Maharashtra, India...

    (पांडुरंग सदाशिव साने)

  • Saniya (सानिया): Tyanantar (त्यानंतर) and Shodh (शोध) are two of her fictional works besides those listed in http://www.rasik.com/library/author_list.asp?AuthorOId=99965.

  • Indira Sant
    Indira Sant
    Indira Sant was a Marathi poetess from Maharashtra, India.She was born on January 4, 1914, as Indira Dikshit in the small town of India, Karnataka....

    (इंदिरा संत)

  • Narayan M. Sant (नारायण मा. संत) (c. 1913-1946): Writer of short essays and poetry. (Husband of Indira Sant.)

  • Prakash Narayan Sant (प्रकाश नारायण संत): Has written four books: Vanavas (वनवास), Sharada Sangeet (शारदा संगीत), Pankha (पंख), and Jhumbar (झुंबर). (Son of Indira and Narayan Sant.)

  • Vilas Sarang
    Vilas Sarang
    Vilas Sarang is one of the most significant modernist Indian writer, critic and translator to emerge in the post-independence period....

    (विलास सारंग)

  • Gangadhar Balkrushna Sardar
    Gangadhar Balkrushna Sardar
    Gangadhar Balkrushna Sardar was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He served as the head of Marathi department of SNDT Women's University....

    ( गंगाधर बाळकृष्ण सरदार)

  • Govind Sakharam Sardesai
    Govind Sakharam Sardesai
    Govind Sakharam Sardesai , popularly known as Riyasatkar Sardesai , was an eminent historian from Maharashtra, India....

    (गोविंद सखाराम सरदेसाई)

  • Lakshman Sardesai (लक्ष्मण सरदेसाई) (1904-?): Kalpawrukshanchya Chhayet (कल्पवृक्षांच्या छायेत), Sagarachya Lata (सागराच्या लाटा), Wadalatil Nauka (वादळातील नौका), Dhasalalele Buruj (ढासळलेले बुरूज), and Aneeteche Diwya (अनीतेचे दिव्य) are his collections of short stories. Mandawi, Tu Ka Atalees? (मांडवी, तू का आटलीस?) (1945) is his novel.

  • Tryambak Vinayak Sardeshmukh (त्र्यंबक विनायक सरदेशमुख) (1922–2005): Novelist and poet. Uttar Ratra (उत्तररात्र) is the title of his poem collection. Sasemira (ससेमिरा), Bakhar Eka Rajachi (बखर एका राजाची), "Uchchad" (उच्छाद), and Dangora Eka Nagaricha (डांगोरा एका नगरीचा) are the titles of his novels, the last one receiving in 2003 a Sahitya Akademi Award. http://www.loksatta.com/old/daily/20051213/evru.htmhttp://www.loksatta.com/old/daily/20051213/mp06.htm http://www.rasik.com/cgi_bin/display_book.cgi?bookId=b50920&lang=marathi

  • Ambika Sarkar (अंबिका सरकार): Writer of short stories. http://erasik.com/books/by/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%20%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE/page1/

  • Bharat Sasane (भारत सासणे): Wrote Rahichya Swapnancha Ulagada (राहीच्या स्वप्नांचा उलगडा), Chiradah (चिरदाह), and Don Mitra (दोन मित्र).

  • Annabhau Sathe
    Annabhau Sathe
    Annabhau Sathe Annabhau Sathe Annabhau Sathe (Devanagari: (अण्णाभाऊ साठे) (1 August 1920 – 18 July 1969) was a social reformer and writer from Maharashtra, India.- Early life :Sathe was born in the village of Wategaon near Sangli in a family belonging to the Dalit Mang community...

    (अण्णाभाऊ साठे)

  • Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
    Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
    Vināyak Dāmodar Sāvarkar was an Indian freedom fighter, revolutionary and politician. He was the proponent of liberty as the ultimate ideal. Savarkar was a poet, writer and playwright...

    (विनायक दामोदर सावरकर)

  • Indrayani Savkar (इंद्रायणी सावकार) (born 1934): Writer of novels and short stories, particularly of the humor genre. http://erasik.com/books/by/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%20%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80/page1/

  • Shivaji Sawant
    Shivaji Sawant
    As per Mr. Mandar Rane opinion Shivaji Sawant was an acclaimed Indian writer in Marathi. He was born in a small farmer family of Aajra village in Kolhapur district...

    (शिवाजी सावंत)

  • Shaila Saynakar (शैला सायनाकर): Writer of poems and short stories. Beej (बीज) and Ganyacha Tas (गाण्याचा तास) are the titles of her books.

  • Madhuri Shanbhag (माधुरी शानभाग): Writer of short stories. Punarwasan (पुनर्वसन) is one of her books besides those listed in http://www.erasik.net/books/by/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%97%20%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A7%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80/page1/

  • Shankar Balaji Shastri (शंकर बाळाजी शास्त्री): Poet. Wrote Rati Rangi Range Dhyana (रतीरंगी रंगे ध्याना) and some lyrics, including Marmabandhatali Theva Hi (मर्मबंधातली ठेव ही), in V. D. Savarkar's plays.

  • Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
    Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
    Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar was an award-winning historian and essayist.-Biography:...

    (त्र्यंबक शंकर शेजवलकर)

  • Shanta Janardan Shelke
    Shanta Shelke
    Shanta Janardan Shelke was a gifted Marathi poetess and writer. Apart from this she has been a journalist, a professor, composer, story writer, translator, written child literature, presided over literature gatherings and more.Some of her compositions became immortal as either stand-alone poetic...

    (शांता जनार्दन शेळके)

  • Uddhav Jayakrushna Shelke (उद्धव जयकृष्ण शेळके) (1930–1992): Writer of novels and short stories. http://erasik.com/books/by/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%20%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B5/page1/ http://books.google.com/books?id=70BGGQnYpWQC&dq=Uddhav+Shelke++By+Anand+Patil&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=Ri_010nRD9&sig=UwERkZC7Hoe0CSbMWxIVZqJZkYY&hl=en&ei=szRhSsmxLMK_lAfJlryuDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

  • Hari Shridhar Shenolikar (हरी श्रीधर शेणोलीकर) (1920–2003): Novelist and critic.

  • VamanPandit Sheshe (वामनपंडित शेषे) (1608–1695): A pandit (पंडित) poet.

  • Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar (राम बाळकृष्ण शेवाळकर)

  • Arun Shewate (अरुण शेवते): Writer of novels and short stories. Alikade Palikade (अलीकडे पलीकडे) and Snehankit (स्नेहांकित) are his two books besides those listed in http://www.rasik.com/cgi_bin/display_author.cgi?authorId=a40761&lang=marathi

  • F. M. Shinde
    F. M. Shinde
    F. M. Shinde is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He has published thus far 24 collections of his poetry, three compilations of his literary critiques, a collection of his one-act plays, a translation of a book, and a collection of his humorous essays...

    (फ. मुं. शिंदे): Poet.

  • Anandibai Shirke (आनंदीबाई शिर्के): Writer of short stories in the early part of the 20th century.

  • Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (विष्णु वामन शिरवाडकर): Poet. Pen name Kusumagraj (कुसुमाग्रज).

  • Shridhar
    Shridhar
    Shridhar is an Indian name. The name may refer to a number of persons or things:-Given name:* Shridhar Chillal, world record holder for having the longest fingernails on a single hand* Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar, Indian scholar...

    (श्रीधर) (1658–1729): A pandit kavi (पंडितकवि). Last name Deshpande (देशपांडे). Wrote Pandava Pratap (पांडवप्रताप), Harivijay (हरिविजय), Ramvijay (रामविजय), and Shivaleelamrut (शिवलीलामृत).

  • S. A. Shukla (स. अ. शुक्ल): Poet.

  • Urmila Sirur (उर्मिला सिरुर): Writer of short stories.

  • Anjali Soman (अंजली सोमण): Literary critic and novelist. http://erasik.com/books/by/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%A3%20%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80/page1/

  • Narhari Sonar (नरहरी सोनार): A 19th century sant (संत) poet.

  • Father Stephens (फादर स्टिव्हन्स) (1549–1619): His Krista Puran (क्रिस्तपुराण) was the first printed book in Marathi.

  • Narayan Gangaram Surve (नारायण गंगाराम सुर्वे)

  • Gopinath Talwalkar (गोपिनाथ तळवलकर): Writer of books for children.

  • Mukund Taksale (मुकुंद टाकसळे): Humorist. http://www.rasik.com/cgi_bin/display_author.cgi?authorId=a14285&lang=marathi

  • Bhaskar Ramchandra Tambe
    Bhaskar Ramchandra Tambe
    Bhaskar Ramchandra Tambe was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.Tambe was born on November 27, 1874 in the town of Mugawali near Gwalior....

    (भास्कर रामचंद्र तांबे)

  • Narayan Dhondopant Tamhankar (नारायण धोंडोपंत ताम्हणकर) (1893–1969): Wrote novels Ratnakar (रत्नाकर), Mani (मानी), Avikshit (अविक्षित), Ankush (अंकुश), Neelangi (नीलांगी), Nari Mahadev (नरी महादेव), Bahin Bhau (बहिणभाऊ); and books for children, including Gotya (गोट्या) and Daji (दाजी).

  • Dadoba Pandurang Tarkhadkar (दादोबा पांडुरंग तर्खडकर) (1814–1882): Wrote Bhashantar Pathmala (भाषांतर पाठमाला), which served as the standard textbook for learning English by Marathi-speaking people for a hundred years.

  • Anand Krushnaji Tekade (आनंद कृष्णाजी टेकाडे): Poet. Anand Geet (आनंद गीत) is the title of the collection of his poetry.

  • Priya Tendulkar
    Priya Tendulkar
    Priya Tendulkar was an actress, social activist and a writer of Marathi origin, who is most known for her eponymous role in the television series Rajani.-Life:...

    (प्रिया तेंडुलकर)

  • Ramesh Tendulkar

  • Vijay Dhondo Tendulkar
    Vijay Tendulkar
    Vijay Tendulkar was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi...

    (विजय धोंडो तेंडुलकर)

  • Anjali Thakar (अंजली ठकार): Poetess and novelist. http://erasik.com/books/by/%E0%A4%A0%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%20%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80/page1/.

  • Yadunath Dattatray Thatte
    Yadunath Thatte
    Yadunath Dattatray Thatte was a Marathi journalist, editor, biographer, social worker and socialist leader from Maharashtra, India....

    (यदुनाथ दत्तात्रय थत्ते)

  • Gajanan Lakshman Thokal (गजानन लक्ष्मण ठोकळ) (1909–1984): Poet and writer of short stories based on village life in Maharashtra.

  • Tryambak Bapuji Thombre (त्र्यंबक बापुजी ठोंबरे) (1890–1918): Poet. Pen name Balkavi (बालकवि).

  • Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    Lokmanya Tilak –, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer and independence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities derogatorily called the great leader "Father of the Indian unrest"...

    (बाळ गंगाधर टिळक)

  • Kamalabai Tilak (कमलाबाई टिळक): Novelist.

  • Lakshmibai Tilak
    Lakshmibai Tilak
    Lakshmibai Tilak was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.Lakshmibai was born in 1869 .According to the social custom of her times, after her receiving limited formal education, she was married off by her parents at her age 11 to one Narayan Waman Tilak.Narayan Waman Tilak was an accomplished...

    (लक्ष्मीबाई टिळक)

  • Narayan Waman Tilak
    Narayan Waman Tilak
    Narayan Vaman Tilak was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.Tilak was born on 1861 in a Hindu family in the village of Karajhgaon in Ratnagiri District of Maharashtra....

    (नारायण वामन टिळक)

  • Madhukar Todarmal (मधुकर तोडरमल) (b. 1932): Wrote Tarun Turk, Mhatare Ark (तरुण तुर्क, म्हातारे अर्क).

  • Tukaram
    Tukaram
    Sant Tukaram was a prominent Varkari Sant and spiritual poet during a Bhakti movement in India.Sant Tukaram was born and lived most of his life in Dehu, a town close to Pune in Mahārāshtra, India. He was born to a couple with the family name "More", the descendent of the Mourya Clan with first...

    (तुकाराम)

  • Shankar Gopal Tulpule (शंकर गोपाळ तुळपुळे) (1914-?): Wrote यादवकालीन मराठी भाषा, प्राचीन मराठी कोरीव लेख, मराठी वाड्.मयाचा इतिहास भाग १, लिळाचरित्र पूर्वार्ध भाग १, महानुभाव पंथ आणि त्यांचे वाङ्मय, संतवाणीतील पंथराज, and A Dictionary of Old Marathi (Co-compiler Anne Feldhaus)

  • Niranjan Ujagare (निरंजन उजगरे) (?-2004): Poet and translator. http://www.rasik.com/cgi_bin/display_author.cgi?authorId=a98888&lang=marathi

  • Jayakrishna Keshav Upadhye (जयकृष्ण केशव उपाध्ये) (1882–1937): Poet. Wrote Popatpanchi (पोपटपंची) and a parody of Bhagwad Geeta.

  • Prabhakar Waman Urdhwareshe (प्रभाकर वामन ऊर्ध्वरेषे): Received in 1989 Sahitya Akademi Award for his autobiographical Harawalele Diwas (हरवलेले दिवस).

  • Vijaya Vad (विजया वाड): Writer of short stories, novels, and literature for children. Awel (आवेळ) is the title of her short story collection besides those listed in http://erasik.com/books/by/Vad%20Vijaya/page1/. http://www.rasik.com/cgi_bin/display_author.cgi?authorId=a42653&lang=marathi

  • Anuradha Vaidya (अनुराधा वैद्य): Poetess. http://www.rasik.com/cgi_bin/display_author.cgi?authorId=a21755&lang=marathi

  • Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya
    Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya
    Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He chaired in 1908 Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held in Pune.The following is a list of the titles of his major works:...

    (चिंतामण विनायक वैद्य)

  • Sarojini Vaidya
    Sarojini Vaidya
    Sarojini Shankar Vaidya was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.She was born on June 15, 1933 in Aklujkar family in Akluj, Maharashtra.She wrote critical books and biographies...

    (सरोजिनी वैद्य)

  • Shankar Vaidya (शंकर वैद्य): Poet and critic. Wrote poetry under the pen name Aditya (आदित्य). (Husband of Sarojini Vaidya.)

  • Tara Vanarase (तारा वनारसे) (b. 1930): Writer of poems, short stories, and novels. Wrote travelogue Tila Tila dar Ughad (तिळा तिळा दार उघड) besides the books listed in http://www.rasik.com/cgi_bin/display_author.cgi?authorId=a44573&lang=marathi

  • Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar
    Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar
    Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.Varterkar was born in 1883 in Chiplun in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. He attended high schools in Malvan, Dapoli, and Ratnagiri...

    (भार्गवराम विठ्ठल वरेरकर)

  • S. V. Vartak (वर्तक) (1885–1950): Wrote plays Andhalyanchi Shala (आंधळ्यांची शाळा), Lapandav (लपंडाव), and Takshashila (तक्षशीला), all in 1933. (Andhalyanchi Shala was the first Marathi play to have a female actor. Its stage presentation also introduced to Marathi theater naturalistic sets and natural acting, and background music and modern lighting.)

  • Vandana Vitankar (वंदना विटणकर): Poetess.

  • Ramchandra Shankar Walimbe (रामचंद्र शंकर वाळिंबे) (1911–1989): Critic.

  • V. S. Walimbe (वि. स. वाळिंबे) (1928-): Historical novelist. http://erasik.com/books/by/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B3%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%87%20%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF.%20%E0%A4%B8./page1/

  • Anant Waman Warti (अनंत वामन वर्टी) (1911–1987):

  • Keshav Narayan Watwe (केशव नारायण वाटवे): Wrote प्राचीन मराठी पंडिती काव्य, रसविमर्श, पाच मराठी कवी, संस्कृत काव्याचे पंचप्राण, and संस्कृत विनोद.

  • Anand Ratan Yadav
    Anand Yadav
    Anand RatanYadav is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.He was born on November 30, 1935 in the village Kagal near Kolhapur, Maharastra in a poor family. His illiterate farmer father was not in favor of educating him...

    (आनंद रतन यादव)

  • Karuna Gokhale ( करूणा गोखले ) http://erasik.com/books/by/Gokhale%20Karuna/page1/

  • Vidyasagar Mahajan ( विद्यासागर धुंडिराज महाजन )

  • Datta Walvekar
    Datta Walvekar
    Dr. Datta Walvekar was an Indian Marathi singer and Music DirectorDatta Walvekar was not only a well-known Marathi Singer, Music Director, but also a good Teacher, Literature, Photographer, Painter, and an expert Homeopath...


  • Sudhir Bharate (Novel -"Tarunyache Wadal")


P. V. Vartak
siddheshwar ghule Sendriya prasbag.,
Ashadhi vanaspati lagwad
  • Prashant Gangawane ( प्रशांत ग़ंगावणे ):Poet. "प्रस्थापितांची फुसकी चळवळ" (Prasthapitanchi Phusaki Chalval )is the title of his poem collection.
  • Vaishali Bhosale (वैशाली भोसले ):Poetess."भेट"(Bhet) is the title of her poem collection.
  • [V.S.Bendre]]Bold text-[V.S.Bendre {श्री वा.सी.बेंद्रे }थोर मराठा इतिहास संशोधक आणि लेखक great historian who researched and wrote much of the Maratha history as we know it today.

Prashant Gangawanehttp://www.freado.com/users/books/28611/prashant-gangawane

External links

  • http://www.culturopedia.com/Literature/marathi_literature.html
  • http://www.nd.edu/~milind/posts/marathi.html
  • https://www.manase.org/en/maharashtra.php?mid=68&smid=21&did=0&dsid=0&pmid=0&id=474
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  • https://www.manase.org/en/maharashtra.php?mid=68&smid=21&id=489
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=QA1V7sICaIwC&pg=PA470&lpg=PA470&dq=Inamdar+marathi+writer&source=bl&ots=iZp9c1YJAe&sig=PDWNp8MV1n2pqrpW955zUhJBDPI&hl=en&ei=XItPStLeMJHUtgODt-iqDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=vfSPI2irzUgC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&dq=Inamdar+marathi+writer&source=bl&ots=gJBtBNx5Y3&sig=op6ZbxlbdZNDnW9UFGukxdgM_Oc&hl=en&ei=R41PSra3CI2GsgP0hYGrDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6
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