Marathi poet Vinda passes away at 92
Mumbai: Marathi poet Govind Vinayak Karandikar passed away here on Sunday following a brief illness. He was 92.
The famous Marathi poet, born on August 23, 1918, breathed his last at the Bhabha hospital here. Karandikar, who was also known as
Vinda, was the winner of the 39th Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary recognition. He was the most experimental and comprehensive among all the modern Marathi poets. He was also an essayist, critic and translator. He translated Aristotle’s poetry into Marathi. He also translated his own poems into English and wrote poetry. He was the third Marathi writer to have won the Jnanpith award after Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1974) and Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (1987). —PTI
The famous Marathi poet, born on August 23, 1918, breathed his last at the Bhabha hospital here. Karandikar, who was also known as
Vinda, was the winner of the 39th Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary recognition. He was the most experimental and comprehensive among all the modern Marathi poets. He was also an essayist, critic and translator. He translated Aristotle’s poetry into Marathi. He also translated his own poems into English and wrote poetry. He was the third Marathi writer to have won the Jnanpith award after Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1974) and Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (1987). —PTI
