Vijaya Rajadhyaksha (
Devanagari: ) (born 1933) is a
Marathi
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*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
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writer from
Maharashtra
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India.
She studied at
Rajaram College in
Kolhapur, and obtained her doctorate from
Mumbai University
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Rajadhyaksha taught Marathi literature at
Elphinstone College affiliated with Mumbai University, and then served as the head of Marathi department in
SNDT Women's University, also in
Mumbai.
Her book received a
Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993. She presided over
Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at
Indore in 2001. Recently, she was awarded first
Vinda Karandikar Jeevan Gaurav Puraskar (2010) which carries a prize money of Rs 1,00,000/- and an honorary certificate.
Her husband
M.V. Rajadhyaksha (1913-2010) was also a noted Marathi writer.
Literary Work
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(February 2007)
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1933 births
Marathi-language writers
Living people
Presidents of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi