Vasant Abaji Dahake

Vasant Abaji Dahake (born March 30, 1942) is a Marathi poet, playwright, short story writer, artist, and critic from Amaravati district in the Maharashtra state of India. In 2009, ee was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection Chitralipi.^[1]

He was associated with the little magazine movement in Marathi during the mid-1950s and the 1960s. Dahake was the President of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Chandrapur in 2012.^[2] He is married and has two children.

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)

maltekdivarun (2009) 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)

References

^ "Poets dominate 2009 Sahitya Akademi Awards". The Hindu. 24 December 2009. Archived from the original on 27 December 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
^ "85 marathi sahitya sammelan in chandrapur - महाविद्यालयीन अभ्यासक्रमांत मराठी अनिवार्य करा - प्रा. वसंत आबाजी डहाके - दिव्या मराठी | Divya Marathi". divyamarathi.bhaskar.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

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[1] "Poets dominate 2009 Sahitya Akademi Awards". The Hindu. 24 December 2009. Archived from the original on 27 December 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2011.

[2] "85 marathi sahitya sammelan in chandrapur - महाविद्यालयीन अभ्यासक्रमांत मराठी अनिवार्य करा - प्रा. वसंत आबाजी डहाके - दिव्या मराठी | Divya Marathi". divyamarathi.bhaskar.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

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