Vasant Abaji Dahake
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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.
His writings show an influence of existentialist writers like Kafka. His poetry is often dark and provocative.
He is associated with the little magazine movement
in Marathi during the mid- fifties and the sixties.
Dahake is married to Prabha Ganorkar (प्रभा गानोरकर), also a writer.
He also has a son Ritwik who is married to Tahira Thekaekara and a daughter Rahee.
Fiction
Essays & Literary Criticism
Other Works
Marathi language
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...
poet, playwright, short story writer, artist, and critic from Amaravati district in the Maharashtra state of India. He is awarded Sahitya Akademi
Sahitya Akademi
The Sahitya Akademi ', India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India...
Award for his collection ` Chitralipi' for the year 2009.
His writings show an influence of existentialist writers like Kafka. His poetry is often dark and provocative.
He is associated with the little magazine movement
Little magazine movement
Little magazines, often called "small magazines" are literary magazines which publish experimental and non-conformist writings of relatively unknown writers. They are usually noncommercial in their outlook. They are often very irregular in their publication...
in Marathi during the mid- fifties and the sixties.
Dahake is married to Prabha Ganorkar (प्रभा गानोरकर), also a writer.
He also has a son Ritwik who is married to Tahira Thekaekara and a daughter Rahee.
Works
Poetry- Yogabhrashta (1972). (Translated into English as “A Terrorist of the Spirit' by Ranjit Hoskote and Mangesh Kulkarni.)
- Shubha-Wartaman (1987)
- Shunah-Shepa (1996)
- Chitralipi
Fiction
- Adholoka (1975)
- Pratibaddha Ani Martya” (1981)
Essays & Literary Criticism
- Yatra Antaryatra (1999)
- Kavita Mhanje Kay? (1991)
- Samakaleen Sahitya (1992)
- Kavitevishayi (1999)
Other Works
- Nivadak Sadanand Rege (1996) (A selection of Sadanand Rege’s poetry)
- Shaleya Marathi Shabdakosh (1997) (A Marathi dictionary for primary and secondary school students).
- Sankshipta Marathi Vangmayakosh (1998) (Co-editor of an encyclopaedia of Marathi literature)
- Kavita Visavya Shatakachi (2000) (Co-editor of an encyclopaedia of 20th century Marathi poetry)
- Vangmayin Samdnya-Sankalpana Kosh (Co-editor)