Vasant Abaji Dahake

Vasant Abaji Dahake (born March 30, 1942) is a Marathi poet, playwright, short story writer, artist, and critic from Amaravati district in the Maharashtra state of India. He is awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection Chitralipi for 2009.^[1]

His writings show an influence of existentialist writers like Kafka. His poetry is often dark and provocative.

He is associated with the little magazine movement in Marathi during the mid-1950s and the 1960s. Dahake was the President of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Chandrapur in 2012.^[2]

Works

Poetry

• Yogabhrashta (1972). (Translated into English as “A Terrorist of the Spirit' by Ranjit Hoskote and Mangesh Kulkarni.)
• Shubha-Wartaman (1987)
• Shunah-Shepa (1996)
• Chitralipi

Fiction

• Adholoka (1975)
• Pratibaddha Ani Martya” (1981)

Essays & Literary Criticism

• Yatra Antaryatra (1999)
• Kavita Mhanje Kay? (1991)
• Samakaleen Sahitya (1992)
• Kavitevishayi (1999)

maltekdivarun (2009) Other Works

• Nivadak Sadanand Rege (1996) (A selection of Sadanand Rege’s poetry)
• Shaleya Marathi Shabdakosh (1997) (A Marathi dictionary for primary and secondary school students).
• Sankshipta Marathi Vangmayakosh (1998) (Co-editor of an encyclopaedia of Marathi literature)
• Kavita Visavya Shatakachi (2000) (Co-editor of an encyclopaedia of 20th century Marathi poetry)
• Vangmayin Samdnya-Sankalpana Kosh (Co-editor)

External links

• His poems on Poetry International Web
• Amitabh Bachchan at Little Mag
• Bio at India - Poetry International Web

maltekadivarun (2009)

References