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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- Works
- 1
Top works
- The Saint in the Cellar
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Maharashtra
- Active from
- 1912-02-27
- Active to
- 1999-03-10
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- 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)
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- 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
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- date of birth
- 1912-02-27
- date of death
- 1999-03-10
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- Kusumagraj
- writing language
- Marathi
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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.