Govind Vinayak Karandikar

Writer

Govind Vinayak Karandikar

Born: 23 August 1918

Died: 14 March 2010

He better known as Vindā, was a well-known Marathi poet, writer, literary critic, and translator.
Karandikar’s poetic works include Svedgangā (River of Sweat) (1949), Mrudgandha (1954), Dhrupad (1959), Jātak (1968), and Virupika (1980).
Two anthologies of his selected poems, Sanhita (1975) and Adimaya (1990) were also published.
His poetic works for children include Rānichā Bāg (1961), Sashyāche Kān (1963), and Pari Ga Pari(1965). Experimentation has been a feature of Karandikar’s Marathi poems.
He also translated his own poems in English, which were published as “Vinda Poems” (1975).
He also modernized old Marathi literature like Dnyaneshwari and Amrutānubhawa.
Besides having been a prominent Marathi poet, Karandikar has contributed to Marathi literature as an essayist, a critic, and a translator.
He translated Poetics of Aristotle and King Lear of Shakespeare in Marathi. Karandikar’s collections of short essays include Sparshaachi Palvi (1958) and Akashacha Arth (1965).
Parampara ani Navata (1967), is a collection of his analytical reviews.
He has conferred the 39th Jnanpith Award in 2006, which is the highest literary award in India.
He was the third Marathi writer to win the Jnanpith Award, after Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (1974) and Vishnü Vāman Shirwādkar (Kusumagraj) (1987).
He also received some other awards for his literary work including the Keshavasut Prize, the Soviet Land Nehru Literary Award, the Kabir Samman, and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1996.