Vinda Karandikar
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Govind Vinâyak Karandikar (born August 23, 1918), better known as Vindâ Karandikar is a famous Marathi poet. He is the winner of the 39th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award. Karandikar is said to be the most experimental and the most comprehensive of all modern Marâthi poets. He has also contributed to Marâthi literature as an essayist, critic and translator (he translated Aristotle’s poetry into Marâthi). He has translated his own poems into English and also written poetry in English (Vindâ poems of 1975). He has also modernised old literature like Dnyaneshwari and Amrutânubhav.
His collections include Shwetagangâ (1949), Mrudgandha (1954), Dhrüpad, Sahita and Vrupika. He is also known for writing children’s poems like Rânichi Bâg, Sashyâche kân and Pari ga Pari.
Karandikar is the third Marâthi writer to have won the Jnanpith award, after Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1974) and Vishnü Vâman Shirwâdkar i.e. Kusumagraj (1987). Karandikar has been the recipient of many other awards including Keshavsût Prize, Soviet Land Nehru Literary Award, Kabir Samman and Senior Fellowship of Sahitya Akademi.
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