Anand Ratan Yadav (30 November 1935 – 27 November 2016) was a
Marathi
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*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
**Marathi people (Uttar Pradesh), the Marathi people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Mar ...
writer from
Maharashtra
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,
India
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. He is best known for his autobiography ''Zombi''.
Literary work
Yadav was one of the early writers of Marathi ''Gramin Sahitya'' (literature pertaining to rural life in Maharashtra). His novel "Zombi" (झोंबी) (meaning "fight against all odds") won a
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 1990. The novel is an autobiographical story of a young boy, his loving mother, his life of utter poverty, and his eagerness to receive education. Yadav wrote three sequels to autobiographical ''Zombi'' (झोंबी), ''Nangarani'' (नांगरणी) (meaning ''cultivation of the soil''), ''Gharabhinti'' (घरभिंती ) (meaning ''housewalls''), and ''Kachawel'' (काचवेल) (meaning ''a vine of pieces of glass''). The famous Marathi movie ''Natarang'' is based on Yadav's novel ''Natarang''. The lesson Gaavachi Sanskruti he Gaavache Vyaktimatva in Marathi textbook of
is taken from his book.
82nd Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
Yadav was elected as the president of the 82nd
Marathi Sahitya Sammelan
Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (All India Marathi Literary Conference) is an annual conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra State. The first Marathi Sahitya Sammelan was ...
which was held at
Mahabaleshwar
Mahabaleshwar () is a small town and a municipal council in Satara district, Maharashtra, India. It is a place of pilgrimage for Hindus because the Krishna River has its origin here. The British colonial rulers developed the town as a hill sta ...
in March 2009. However, he resigned from that position four days before the ''sammelan'' in response to protests primarily by members of the ''
varkari
Warkari ( ; Marathi: ; Pronunciation: ; Meaning: 'The one who performs the ''Wari) is a sampradaya (religious movement) within the bhakti spiritual tradition of Hinduism, geographically associated with the Indian state of Maharashtra. Wark ...
mahamandal'' against some of the material in his
biographical novel
The biographical novel is a genre of novel which provides a fictional account of a contemporary or historical person's life. Like other forms of biographical fiction, details are often trimmed or reimagined to meet the artistic needs of the fictio ...
''Santasurya
Tukaram
Tukaram (Marathi pronunciation: ̪ukaːɾam, also known as Tuka, Tukobaraya and Tukoba, was a Hindu Marathi saint of the Warkari sampradaya in Dehu village, Maharashtra in the 17th century. He was a '' bhakt'' of the god Vithoba, also kn ...
'' (संतसूर्य तुकाराम). The ''mahamandal'' members had demanded his resignation with a warning that they would disrupt the ''sammelan'' if their demand was not met.
References
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1935 births
2016 deaths
Writers from Maharashtra
Marathi-language writers
People from Kolhapur district
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi
Indian autobiographers
Presidents of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan