Nagorao Ghanashyam Deshpande (Devanagari

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: नागोराव घनश्याम देशपांडे) (1909–2000) was a Marathi

Marathi people

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 poet from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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, India

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He was born on August 21, 1909 in the town of Shendurjan in Buldhana District

Buldhana district

-Buldhana district is a district in the Amravati division of Maharashtra state in western India. It is situated at the westernmost border of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra and is 500 km from the state capital, Mumbai...

 of Maharashtra.

He lived most of his life in the town of Mehkar, also in Buldhana District. Because of his premature birth, he suffered considerable sickness through much of his life of 91 years.

Deshpande received in 1986 a Sahitya Akademi

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Award for his collection of poems Khoon Gathi (खूणगाठी).

The following are the titles of the five collections of his poems:

• Sheel (शीळ) (1954)
• Abhisar (अभिसार) (1963)
• Khoon Gathi (खूणगाठी) (1985)
• Gumphan (गुंफण) (1996)
• Kanchanicha Mahal (कंचनीचा महाल) (1996)