Bhalchandra Nemade
| Bhalchandra Nemade | |
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| Born |
27 May 1938 Sangavi, Yawal Maharashtra |
| Occupation | Marathi writer |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Notable awards | Padma Shri – 2011, Maharashtra foundation |
Bhalchandra Vanaji Nemade (born 1938) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He is famous for his books Hindu and Kosala. Also he is known for his novel Hindu jagnyachi samrudhha adgal. He is a recipient of the civilian honour of Padma Shri (2011) and the Jnanpith Award (2014).
Nemade was born in 1938 on May 27 in the village of Sangavi in the Khandesh region of Maharashtra. He received his bachelor's degree from Fergusson College in Pune and master's degree in Linguistics from Deccan College in Pune and English Literature from the Mumbai University in Mumbai. He received PhD and D.Lit. degrees from North Maharashtra University.
Nemade taught English, Marathi, and comparative literature at various universities including the School of Oriental and African Studies at London. He retired from Mumbai University's Gurudeo Tagore Chair for comparative literature studies. In the 1960s, Nemade edited Marathi magazine Vacha (वाचा). He received a Sahitya Akademi Award for year 1990 for his critical work Teeka Svayanwar (टीका स्वयंवर). .He has been conferred with highest award in Indian literature "Jnanpith" on 06 FEB 2015.
Nemade wrote his first novel Kosala (कोसला) in 1963. It is a fictitious autobiographical novel of one Pandurang Sangvikar, a youth from rural Maharashtra who studies in a college in Pune; but it is loosely based on Nemade's own life in his youth.
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