Viththal Dattatreya Ghate
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Viththal Dattatreya Ghate (Devanagari
Devanagari
Devanagari |deva]]" and "nāgarī" ), also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...

: विठ्ठल दत्तात्रेय घाटे) (1894–1978) was an educationist and a Marathi
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 writer from Maharashtra
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, India
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. 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. He spent one year in London and later revisited there after 30 years.

His books include:
  • दिवस असे होते Autobiography, 1961
  • विचार-विलसिते
  • पांढरे केस, हिरवी मने”
  • काही म्हातारे व एक म्हातारी


He 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...

 in Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad
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 in 1953.

He was the son of Marathi poet Dattatreya Ghate who wrote poetry under the pen name Kavi Datta (कवी दत्त).
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