Manya Joshi

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Manya Joshi (born 1972) is a Marathi poet based in Mumbai.

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He has a Master's in Marathi literature from Mumbai University and a Master's in Library and Information Studies from the University of Oklahoma, USA. He works as a freelance library research advisor and copywriter. He also writes short fiction and literary criticism. [1] He is closely associated with the little magazine movement of the nineties, especially with the periodical Abhidhanantar . His collection of poems Jyam Maja is published by Abhidhanantar Publications.

Marathi literature is the body of literature of Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Maharashtra and written in the Devanagari script.

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The little magazine movement originated in the 1950s and 1960s in many Indian languages like Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam and Gujarati, as it did in the West, in the early part of the 20th century.

The literary critic Sachin Ketkar in his introduction to Live Update: An Anthology of Recent Marathi Poetry writes, "He is one of the most experimental poets writing today. He represents the post-modernist sensibility in Marathi today". [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Biodata on Poetry International Web.
  2. ↑ Sachin Ketkar ed. and trans. ` Live Update: An Anthology of Recent Marathi Poetry', Poetrywala, Mumbai, 2005, ISBN   81-89621-00-9.


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