Vinda Karandikar
| Govind Vinayak Karandikar | |
|---|---|
| Born |
23 August 1918 |
| Died | 14 March 2010 (aged 91) Mumbai |
| Occupation | Writer, Poet, Essayist and Critic |
| Spouse | Sumati Karandikar |
23 August 1918
Dhalavali,Taluka [Devgad]
Govind Vinayak Karandikar (August 23, 1918 – March 14, 2010), better known as Vindā Karandikar, was a well-known Marathi poet, writer, literary critic, and translator.
He was conferred the 39th Jnanpith Award in 2003, which is the highest literary award in India. He also received some other awards for his literary work including the Keshavasut Prize, the Soviet Land Nehru Literary Award, the Kabir Samman, and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1996.
Karandikar was born on August 23, 1918, in Dhalavali village in the Devgad taluka present-day Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra.
Karandikar's poetic works include Svedgangā (River of Sweat) (1949), Mrudgandha (1954), Dhrupad (1959), Jātak (1968), and Virupika (1980). Two anthologies of his selected poems, Sanhita (1975) and Adimaya (1990) were also published. His poetic works for children include Rānichā Bāg (1961), Sashyāche Kān (1963), and Pari Ga Pari (1965).
Experimentation has been a feature of Karandikar's Marathi poems. He also translated his own poems in English, which were published as "Vinda Poems" (1975). He also modernized old Marathi literature like Dnyaneshwari and Amrutānubhawa.
Besides having been a prominent Marathi poet, Karandikar has contributed to Marathi literature as an essayist, a critic, and a translator. He translated Poetics of Aristotle and King Lear of Shakespeare in Marathi.
Karandikar's collections of short essays include Sparshaachi Palvi (1958) and Akashacha Arth (1965). Parampara ani Navata (1967), is a collection of his analytical reviews.
Karandikar was the only third Marathi writer to have won Jnanpith Award. On 14th Jan 2006, Marathi poet maestro called Ashtadarshane (poetry), after Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1974) and Vishnü Vāman Shirwādkar (Kusumagraj) (1987).
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