Sharchchandra Muktibodh (

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: शरच्चंद्र मुक्तिबोध) (1921 – 21 November 1984) was a

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poet, novelist and literary critic from

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Biography

Muktibodh was born in 1921. He completed his Master of Arts in 1947 from

Nagpur University Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU), formerly Nagpur University, is a Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Nagpur, Maharashtra. It is one of India's oldest universities, as well as th ...

. He started his career as a deputy director in the language department of government. In 1957, he joined Nagpur Mahavidyalaya as a lecturer, from where he retired in 1979. Muktibodh died on 21 November 1984. His elder brother

Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (गजानन माधव मुक्तिबोध) (13 November 1917 – 11 September 1964) was one of the most prominent Hindi poets, essayists, literary and political critics, and fiction writers of the 20th cen ...

was also a poet and writer of

Hindi literature Hindi literature ( hi, हिन्दी साहित्य, translit=hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Hindi language which have writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃ� ...

Literary works

Novels

* ''Sarahadda'' (सरहद्द) * ''Jan He Wolatu Jethe'' (जन हे वोळतु जेथे) * ''Kshipra'' (क्षिप्रा)

Collections of poems

* ''Nawi Malawat'' (नवी मळवाट) * ''Satyachi Jat'' (सत्याची जात) * ''Yatrik'' (यात्रिक) * ''Muktibodhanchi Niwadak Kavita'' (मुक्तिबोधांची निवडक कविता)

Awards

Muktibodh received the

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

in 1979 for his critical work ''Srushti, Saundarya Ani Sahityamoolya'' (सृष्टि, सौंदर्य आणि साहित्यमूल्य).

References

Marathi-language writers 1921 births 1984 deaths 20th-century Indian poets Indian male poets Poets from Maharashtra 20th-century Indian male writers Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi {{india-poet-stub