Shripad Raghunath Joshi (1920 – 2002) was 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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author from
Maharashtra,
India
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Joshi was born in the
Kolhapur
Kolhapur () is a city on the banks of the Panchganga River in the southern part of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarter of the Kolhapur district. In, around 2 C.E. Kolapur's name was 'Kuntal'.
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district of
Maharashtra.
Under the leadership of
Mahatma Gandhi
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, he participated in the Indian struggle for freedom from the
British Raj
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. For his freedom activities, the British rulers had imprisoned him during 1942 - 1944 at ''Yerawada'' prison.
Joshi wrote mostly in
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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or
Hindi
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194 books on different topics, including one on various facets of Mahatma Gandhi's life, a seven-volume travelogue, and a book on
Muslim culture. He translated some
poetry into
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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Maharashtra state government honored Joshi with ''Santwan'' award in 1980.
He was awarded
Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize
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(1990) for his Marathi translation of Hindi Novel '
Rag Darbari' written by
Shrilal Shukla.
Works
* Ravīndranāth Āṇi Mahārāshṭra (1961)
* Chinārachyā Chhāyet (1962)
* Muslim Saṇ Āṇi Sãnskār (1962)
* Anantā, Kāy Re Kelãs Hẽ? (1962)
* Gāndhījī : Ek Jhalak (1962)
* Grāmīṇ Vikāsāchī Wāṭachāl (1962)
* Chīnachē Ākramaṇ Wa Gāndhīvād (1963)
* Vividha Bhāratī (1964)
* Tāmbaḍī Mātī, Hirave Māḍ (1964)
* Mī Bhūmiputra (1966)
* Mahatma, My Bapu (1968)
* Purvāñkalāchī Muśhāphirī (1969)
* Mahārāshṭrache Samāj-Sudhārak (1969)
* Vāḷavaṇṭātīl Chandrakor (1977)
* Jīvanda-Sugandha (1977)
* Ulagā-Ulag (1983)
* Turuṅgātale Divas (1985)
* Śrīmānas (1990)
* Vichārayātrā (1992)
* Akherachã Parva (2000)
* Abalānche Āsu
* Bhārat Bhraman
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1920 births
2002 deaths
Marathi-language writers
People from Kolhapur district
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation