: मधु मंगेश कर्णिक) (b. 1931) is a Marathi

Marathi people

The Marathi people or Maharashtrians are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, that inhabit the Maharashtra region and state of western India. Their language Marathi is part of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages...

 literary activist from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

.

He was born on April 28, 1931, in Sindhudurg district

Sindhudurg district

Sindhudurg is an administrative district in the state of Maharashtra in India, which was carved out of the erstwhile Ratnagiri District. The district headquarters are located at Oros . The district occupies an area of 5207 km² and has a population of 868,825 of which 9.47% were urban...

 of Maharashtra.

He was the president of Marathi Sahitya Sammelan

Marathi Sahitya Sammelan

Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

at Ratnagiri in 1990.

In 2006, he was appointed as the president of the Maharashtra State Literary and Cultural Board.

The following is a partial list of his books:

• झुंबर
• जुईली
• सोबत
• देवकी
• कातळ
• समर्पण
• पांघरूण
• उत्तरायण
• काळवीट
• लागेबांधे
• हृदयंगम
• संधिकाल
• सनद/सूर्यफूल
• माहिमची खाडी
• शाळेबाहेरील सौंगडी
• कॅलिफोर्नियात कोकण
• जगन नाथ आणि कंपनी
• गवळण आणि इतर कथा
• शब्दांनो, मागुती या (काव्यसंग्रह)

External links

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzBBQIN-G_I
• http://news.oneindia.in/2006/04/28/madhu-mangesh-karnik-appointed-president-of-cultureliterary-board-1146240352.html