As per Mr. Mandar Rane opinion Shivaji Sawant (August 31, 1940 – September 18, 2002) was an acclaimed India

India

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n writer in Marathi

Marathi language

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...

. He was born in a small farmer family of Aajra village in Kolhapur district. He worked with Rajaram Prashala, Kolhapur as a teacher for 20 years and afterwords as editor with Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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 education department's monthly magazine Lokshikshan for six years in Pune (1974 – 1980).

After extensive research he wrote a book Mrityunjay

Mrityunjay

Mrityunjay may refer to* Mahamrityunjaya Mantra* The Jnanpith Award-winning 1979 Assamese novel by Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya* The Marathi novel by Shivaji Sawant...

(English: Triumph Over Death) based on Karna

Karna

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, one of the leading characters of the epic Mahabharat. This book was translated in Hindi

Hindi

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 (1974), English

English language

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 (1989), Kannada (1990), Gujarati

Gujarati language

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 (1991), Malayalam (1995) and received numerous awards and accolades. In 1980 he wrote a book Chhava based on Sambhaji

Sambhaji

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's life.

He held the post of the vice-president of Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad since 1995. He was president of Baroda Sahitya Sammelan in 1983.

Mr. Shivaji Sawant died of massive cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest

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 in Goa

Goa

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 while campaigning for the post of President of 76th 'All India Marathi Sahitya Sammelan'. He was one of the three contestants contesting for the post of President, the other two were Subhash Bhende from Mumbai

Mumbai

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 and Jawahar Mutha from Aurangabad.

Books

• Mrityunjay
• Chhava
• Yugandhar
• Kanchan Kan
• Ladhat
• Ashi Mane Ase NamuneKan
• Kavadase
• Krantis ihachi Gavran Boli (compilation)
• Purushottamnama

Dramas

• Mrityunjay
• Chhava

he was not only a historical writer but also a political writer