Kusumagraj
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Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (27 February 1912 – 10 March 1999), popularly known by his pen name, Kusumāgraj, was a Marathi poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer, who wrote of freedom, justice and emancipation of the deprived.
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Vinony's link graph records 222 inbound references to Kusumagraj, and connects out to Padma Bhushan, Jnanpith Award and Akhlaq Mohammed Khan.
It is catalogued under topics including 1912 births, 1999 deaths and 20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The Saint in the Cellar
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Maharashtra
- Active from
- 1912-02-27
- Active to
- 1999-03-10
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 21
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Key facts
- Person.name
- Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar
- Person.image
- Vishnu Vāman Shirwādkar.jpg
- Person.imagesize
- 200
- Person.alt
- 5
- Person.caption
- Portrait of Kusumagraj
- Person.honorific_prefix
- Kusumāgraj
- Person.birth_place
- Poona, Bombay Presidency, British India(present day Pune, Maharashtra, India)
- Person.death_place
- Shirwade Wani, Nashik, Maharashtra, India
- Person.occupation
- Poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, humanist
- Person.notable_works
- VishakhaNatsamrat
- Person.awards
- Padma Bhushan (1991)Jnanpith Award (1987) Sahitya Akademi Award (1974)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dominion of India
- Place of birth
- Pune
- Place of death
- Nashik
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Marathi
- Award
- Jnanpith Award
- Image
- Stamp of India - 2003 - Colnect 158296 - Kusumagraj 1912-1999.jpeg
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1912-02-27
- date of death
- 1999-03-10
- Commons category
- Kusumagraj
- writing language
- Marathi
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Early life and education
- Career
- Awards and recognition
- Death
- Writings
- Works in translation
- Visualisation of works of Kusumagraj
- See also
- References
- External links
Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (27 February 1912 – 10 March 1999), popularly known by his pen name, Kusumāgraj, was a Marathi poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer, who wrote of freedom, justice and emancipation of the deprived.
In a career spanning five decades starting in India's pre-independence era, he wrote 16 volumes of poems, three novels, eight volumes of short stories, seven volumes of essays, 18 plays and six one-act plays. His works like the Vishakha (1942), a collection of lyrics, inspired a generation into the Indian freedom movement, and is today considered one of the masterpieces of Indian literature.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kusumagraj” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.