Muktabai Dixit (

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: मुक्ताबाई दीक्षित) (1901 or 1902 - 1977) was a

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writer from

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Biography

She was born in December 1901 in the town of Edalabad in

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. After finishing her high school education in ''

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'' girls' school in

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in 1922, she received her college education at S. P. College, also in Pune, to obtain her B.A. degree in philosophy and psychology from

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. After receiving a degree in teaching, she served as a teacher for seven years at Maharani High School in

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. In 1935, she obtained a master's degree in Marathi literature from

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and joined the faculty of Thackersey College of

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in Pune as a professor of Marathi. Her husband owned the shop 'International Book Service', which is located in the Deccan Gymkhana area of Pune.

Literary work

Collections of short stories

* Manas Lahari (मानस-लहरी) * Aniruddha Prawaha (अनिरुद्ध प्रवाह)

Plays

* Jugar (जुगार) (1950) (This play has been translated into

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and

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.) * Awaliya (अवलिया) (1956)

Critiques

* Dixit wrote critiques of the poetry of

Madhav Julian Madhav Julian ( mr, माधव जुलियन) (21 January 1894 – 29 November 1939) was the pen name which Madhav Tryambak Patwardhan ( mr, माधव त्र्यंबक पटवर्धन) used in writing Marathi poetry. He h ...

and Anant Kanekar, the collection of Kanekar's short stories ''Jagatya Chhaya'' (जागत्या छाया), and the play ''Gharabaher'' (घराबाहेर) of

Prahlad Keshav Atre Prahlad Keshav Atre () (13 August 1898 – 13 June 1969), popularly known as Āchārya Atre, was a prominent Marathi writer, poet, educationist, founder–editor of ''Maratha'' (a Marathi language newspaper), and above all, a noted orator. Biog ...

References

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