Vasant Abaji Dahake

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Vasant Abaji Dahake (born March 30, 1942) is a Marathi poet, playwright, short story writer, artist, and critic from Amaravati district in the Maharashtra state of India. In 2009, ee was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection Chitralipi. [1]

He was associated with the little magazine movement in Marathi during the mid-1950s and the 1960s. Dahake was the President of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Chandrapur in 2012. [2] He is married and has two children.

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Essays & Literary Criticism

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References

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  2. "85 marathi sahitya sammelan in chandrapur - महाविद्यालयीन अभ्यासक्रमांत मराठी अनिवार्य करा - प्रा. वसंत आबाजी डहाके - दिव्या मराठी | Divya Marathi". divyamarathi.bhaskar.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2022.