Govind Vināyak Karandikar (August 23, 1918 – March 14, 2010), better known as Vindā Karandikar , was a well-known 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...

 poet and writer. He was also an essayist, literary critic, and a translator.

He was conferred with 39th Jnanpith Award

Jnanpith Award

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 in 2003, which is the highest literary award in India. He also received some other awards for his literary work including Keshavasut Prize, Soviet Land Nehru Literary Award, Kabir Samman, and the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship

Sahitya Akademi Fellowship

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 in 1996
Karandikar was born on August 23, 1918, at Dhalval village in the present-day Sindhudurg district

Sindhudurg district

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 of Maharashtra.

Karandikar's poetic works include Svedgangā (River of Sweat) (1949), Mrudgandha (1954), Dhrupad (1959), Jātak (1968), and Virupika (1980).