Shripad Narayan Pendse

Shripad Narayan Pendse (January 5, 1913 – March 24, 2007) was one of the finest writers of several Marathi novels.[1] He hailed from Maharashtra, India. He was born at village Murdi Taluka Dapoli Dist. Ratnagiri in a chittapavan Konkanastha Brahman Community.

His novel Rathachakra (The Chariot-Wheel) received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963.

His novel Garambacha Bapu was translated in 1969 into English with the title Wild Bapu of Garambi as a part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, which had been organized with Sahitya Akademi collaboration.

Haddapar (The Outcast) and Tumbadche Khot (The Khots of Tumbad) are Pendse's other two popular novels.

He was offered a Rockfeller Foundation Scholarship under which he travelled Europe and United States in order to study and exchange his views with other novelists and learned people. He travelled for more than one year with his wife with the help of this scholarship. In his tour to England, France and the US, he met many well known writers, including E. M. Forster.

Works

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Novels

Dramas

Short stories

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Footnotes

  1. Snell, Rupert; Raeside, Ian, eds. (1998). Classics of Modern South Asian Literature. p. 181.

This information is taken from his autobiography written in 1974 and published by Mauj Prakashan 228.


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