Manya Joshi (born 17th July, 1972) is a
Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*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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poet based in
Mumbai
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He has a Master's in
Marathi literature from
Mumbai University and a Master's in
Library and Information Studies
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from the
University of Oklahoma
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, USA. He works as a freelance library research advisor and copywriter. He also writes short fiction and literary criticism. He is closely associated with the
little magazine movement of the nineties, especially with the periodical ''
Abhidhanantar''. His collection of poems ''Jyam Maja'' is published by Abhidhanantar Publications.
The literary critic Sachin Ketkar in his introduction to ''Live Update: An Anthology of Recent Marathi Poetry'' writes, "He is one of the most experimental poets writing today. He represents the post-modernist sensibility in Marathi today".
[Sachin Ketkar ed. and trans. ` Live Update: An Anthology of Recent Marathi Poetry', Poetrywala, Mumbai, 2005, .]
Online poetry
An Announcement for Mr and Mrs Limaye
References
Indian male poets
Marathi-language poets
1972 births
Writers from Mumbai
Living people
Poets from Maharashtra
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