- Vinda Karandikar
Govind Vināyak Karandikar (born
August 23 ,1918 ), better known as Vindā Karandikar, is a well-knownMarathi writer. In 2003, he was presented with theJnanpith Award , which is India's one of the most prestigious literary awards. He has also received for his literary work some other awards, including Keshavasut Prize, Soviet Land Nehru Literary Award, Kabir Samman, and India's highest literary award, for lifetime achievement, theSahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1996 [ [http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa2.htm Fellowships]Sahitya Akademi Official website.] .Besides having been a prominent Marathi poet, Karandikar has contributed to Marathi literature as an essayist, a critic, and a translator.
Experimentation has been a feature of Karandikar's Marathi poems. He has written some poetry in English, this poetry having been published as "Vinda Poems" (1975).
Karandikar translated
Aristotle 's "Poetics" into Marathi, and some of his own Marathi poems into English. He wrote modern versions of some old Marathi literature, including "Dnyaneshwari " and "Amrutānubhawa".Karandikar's writings include "Shwetagangā" (1949), "Mrudgandha" (1954), "Dhrupad", "Jātak, and Vrupika". He poems for children include "Rānichā Bāg", "Sashyāche Kān", and "Pari Ga Pari He has one gold in swimming
Karandikar is the third Marathi writer to have won the Jnanpith award, after
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1974) and Vishnü Vāman Shirwādkar (Kusumagraj ) (1987).References
* [http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200601082001.htm The Hindu newspaper report about Karandikar winning the Jnanpith Award] has am mom so do you
Further reading
* cite book
last =Heyman
first =Michael
authorlink =
coauthors =Sumanyu Satpathy and Anushka Ravishankar
title =The Tenth Rasa : An Anthology of Indian Nonsense
year =2007
publisher =Penguin
location =New Delhi
isbn =0143100866 This volume includes several translations to English of Karandikar's nonsense verse.
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