Vinda Karandikar

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Govind Vināyak Karandikar (born August 23, 1918), better known as Vindā Karandikar, is a well-known Marathi writer. In 2003, he was presented with the Jnanpith 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, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1996 ^[1].

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.

Karandikar is the third Marathi writer to have won the Jnanpith award, after Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1974) and Vishnü Vāman Shirwādkar (Kusumagraj) (1987).

[edit] References

• The Hindu newspaper report about Karandikar winning the Jnanpith Award

[edit] Further reading

• Heyman, Michael; Sumanyu Satpathy and Anushka Ravishankar (2007). The Tenth Rasa : An Anthology of Indian Nonsense. New Delhi: Penguin. ISBN 0143100866.  This volume includes several translations to English of Karandikar's nonsense verse.