: शंकर बाबाजी पाटील) (1926 - July 30, 1994) was 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...

 writer 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...

.

Patil was born in 1926 in Pattan-Kodoli in Kolhapur District

Kolhapur District

Kolhapur district is located in Maharashtra state. The city of Kolhapur is the district headquarters. The district had a population of 3,523,162 of which 29.81% were urban as of 2001...

. He attended high school in Gadhinglaj

Gadhinglaj

Gadhinglaj is a Town in Kolhapur district in the state of Maharashtra, India. It is governed by a municipal council.-Geography:Gadhinglaj is located at...

 and college in Kolhapur to earn his B.A. and B.T. degrees.

He served for some time as a member of Maharashtra state government's committee on high school textbooks and curricula research.

Patil presided over 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 Nanded

Nanded

Nanded is the second largest city in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra, India. It is also headquarters of Nanded district in the Marathwada Division of the state. It is an important holy place for the Sikh faith and is famous for the Hazur Sahib Gurudwara. It is the district headquarters once...

 in 1985.

Collections of short stories

• वळीव (१९५८)
• भेटीगाठी (१९६०)
• आभाळ (१९६१)
• धिंड (१९६२)
• ऊन (१९६३)
• वावरी (१९६३)
• खुळ्याची चावडी (१९६४)
• खेळखंडोबा (१९७४)
• Patlanchi Chanchi
• Natak

Movie scripts

• वावटळ
• युगे युगे मी वाट पाहिली
• गणगौळण
• भोळीभाबडी
• पाहुणी
• पिंजरा
• भुजंग
• एक गाव बारा भानगडी