Vinda Karandikar
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Govind Vinayak Karandikar (born August 23, 1918), better known as Vinda Karandikar is a famous Marathi poet. He is the winner of the 39th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award. Karandikar is said to be the most experimental and the most comprehensive of all modern Marâthi poets. He has also contributed to Marâthi literature as an essayist, critic and translator (he translated Aristotle's Poetics into Marathi). He has translated his own poems into English and also written poetry in English (Vinda poems of 1975). He has also modernised old literature like Dnyaneshwari and Amrutânubhav.
His collections include Shwetaganga (1949), Mrudgandha (1954), Dhrupad, Sahita and Vrupika. He is also known for writing children’s poems like Raanichi Baag, Sashyache kaan and Pari ga Pari.
Karandikar is the third Marathi writer to have won the Jnanpith award, after Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1974) and Vishnü Vaman Shirwâdkar i.e. Kusumagraj (1987). Karandikar has been the recipient of many other awards including Keshavsut Prize, Soviet Land Nehru Literary Award, Kabir Samman and Senior Fellowship of Sahitya Akademi.
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