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Shripad Narayan Pendse | |
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Native name | श्रीपाद नारायण पेंडसे |
Born | Murdi, Ratnagiri District, Bombay Presidency, British Raj | January 5, 1913
Died | March 23, 2007 94) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | (aged
Occupation | Novelist |
Genre | Novel |
Notable awards | Sahitya Akademi Award (1963) |
Shripad Narayan Pendse (5 January 1913 – 23 March 2007) was a Marathi writer. [1]
Shripad Narayan Pendse hailed from Maharashtra, India. He was born to a village Murdi, from Taluka Dapoli in Ratnagiri District. [ citation needed ]
His novel, Rathachakra (The Chariot-Wheel), received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963.[ citation needed ]
His novel, Garambicha Bapu, was translated in 1969 into English, titled –'Wild Bapu of Garambi', as a part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, which had been organized with Sahitya Akademi collaboration.[ citation needed ]
Haddapar (The Outcast) and Tumbadche Khot (The Khots of Tumbad) are Pendse's other two popular novels.[ citation needed ]
He was offered a Rockfeller Foundation Scholarship, under which he travelled Europe and United States in order to study and exchange his views with other novelists and learned people. He travelled for more than one year with his wife with the help of this scholarship. In his tour to England, France and the US, he met many well known writers, including E. M. Forster.[ citation needed ] EM Forster's letter to SN Pendse is reproduced in the autobiography of SN Pendse on page 243,244,245 SN Pendse "Lekhak Ani Manus" Ek Mitra published by Mouj publishers publication 228, in November 1974..
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This article is based on his autobiography, written in 1974, and published by Mauj Prakashan.
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