Sharchchandra Muktibodh (1921 – 21 November 1984) was a

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poet, novelist and literary critic from

Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...

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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 state university located in Nagpur, Maharashtra. It is one of India's oldest universities, as well as the second-oldest in Maharashtra. It is named ...

. 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 (13 November 1917 – 11 September 1964) was a prominent Hindi poet, essayist, literary and political critic, and fiction writer of the 20th century. Muktibodh is widely regarded as a pioneer of modern Hindi poetry in ...

was also a poet and writer of

Hindi literature Hindi literature () includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awad ...

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

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