Gauri Deshpande

Gauri Deshpande (Devanagari: गौरी देशपांडे) (1942–2003) was a novelist, short story writer, and poet from Maharashtra, India. She wrote in Marathi and English.

She was born in Pune in 1942 to Irawati Karve and Dinkar Karve, her father being one of the sons of Dhondo Keshav Karve. After finishing her high school education at Ahilyadevi School in Pune, she attended Fergusson College, also in Pune, to receive an M.A. in English Literature. She then received her PhD in English from Pune University.

Works

The following are the titles of some of Deshpande's books:

• Ekek Pan Galawaya (1980)
• Teruo Te Ani Kahi Door Paryant (1985)
• Ahe He Ase Ahe (1986)
• Niragathi Ani Chandrike Ga Sarike Ga (1987)
• Dustar Ha Ghat Ani Athang (1989)
• Mukkam (1992)
• Vinchurniche Dhade (1996)
• Goph (1999)
• Utkhanan (2002)
• The Lackadaisical Sweeper (1997) (in English)
• --and Pine for What Is Not (English translation of Sunita Desapande's Ahe Manohar Tari...)
• Diary of a decade of agony (English translation of Avinash Dharmadhikari's Aswastha dashakachi diary)
• She also translated the ten volumes of "Arabian Nights" written by Sir Richard Burton from English to Marathi. The volumes were published in 1976-77.

Collections of poems (in English)

• "Between Births" (1968)
• Lost love (1970)
• Beyond the Slaughterhouse (1972)

Family

Deshpande had two daughters with her first husband, Avinash Deshpande; and one daughter with naval architect Surindar Singh.