Govind Karandikar | |
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| Born | (1918-08-23)23 August 1918 Dhalavali,Bombay Province,British India |
| Died | 14 March 2010(2010-03-14) (aged 91) Mumbai, India |
| Pen name | Vindā Karandikar |
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| Nationality | British Indian (1918–1947) Indian (1947–2010) |
| Education | M.A. |
| Notable awards | Sahitya Akademi Fellowship (1996) Jnanpith Award (2003) |
| Spouse | Sumati Karandikar |
| Children | 3 |
Govind Vinayak Karandikar (23 August 1918[1] – 14 March 2010), better known asVindā, was an Indian poet, writer, literary critic, and translator in theMarathi-language.
Karandikar was born on 23 August 1918, in Dhalavali village in the Devgad taluka present-daySindhudurg district of Maharashtra.
Karandikar's poetic works includeSvedgangā (River of Sweat) (1949),Mrudgandha (1954),Dhrupad (1959),Jātak (1968), andVirupika (1980).[2] Two anthologies of his selected poems,Sanhita (1975) andAdimaya (1990) were also published. His poetic works for children includeRānichā Bāg (1961),Sashyāche Kān (1963), andPari Ga Pari (1965). Experimentation has been a feature of Karandikar's Marathi poems. He also translated his own poems in English, which were published as "Vinda Poems" (1975). He also modernized old Marathi literature likeDnyaneshwari andAmrutānubhawa.
Besides having been a prominent Marathi poet, Karandikar has contributed to Marathi literature as an essayist, a critic, and a translator. He translatedPoetics of Aristotle andKing Lear ofShakespeare in Marathi. Karandikar's collections of short essays includeSparshaachi Palvi (1958) andAkashacha Arth (1965).Parampara ani Navata (1967), is a collection of his analytical reviews.[3]
The trio of poetsVasant Bapat, Vinda Karandikar andMangesh Padgaonkar provided for many years public recitals of their poetry in different towns inMaharashtra. Along with Vasant Bapat and Padgaonkar, Karandikar travelled across Maharashtra in the 1960s and 1970s reciting poetry.[4] Karandikar was also a member of a Marathi literary group called "Murgi club", loosely fashioned after theAlgonquin Round Table. In addition to Karandikar, it included Vasant Bapat, Mangesh Padgaonkar,Gangadhar Gadgil, Sadanand Rege and Shri Pu Bhagwat. They met every month for several years to eat together, engaging each other in wordplay and literary jokes.[5]
Karandikar was conferred the 39thJnanpith Award in 2006, which is the highest literary award in India.[6] He was the third Marathi writer to win theJnanpith Award, afterVishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1974) and Vishnü Vāman Shirwādkar (Kusumagraj) (1987). Karandikar also received some other awards for his literary work including the Keshavasut Prize, the Soviet Land Nehru Literary Award, the Kabir Samman, and theSahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1996.[7]
Vinda Karandikar died on 14 March 2010 at the age of 91 inMumbai following a brief illness.[8][9]
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