Shripad Narayan Pendse


Shripad Narayan Pendse was a writer of several Marathi novels.

Biography

Shripad Narayan Pendse hailed from Maharashtra, India. He was born to a village Murdi, from Taluka Dapoli in Ratnagiri District.
His novel, Rathachakra, received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963.
His novel, Garambicha Bapu, was translated in 1969 into English, titled –'Wild Bapu of Garambi', as a part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works, which had been organized with Sahitya Akademi collaboration.
Haddapar and Tumbadche Khot are Pendse's other two popular novels.
He was offered a Rockfeller Foundation Scholarship, under which he travelled Europe and United States in order to study and exchange his views with other novelists and learned people. He travelled for more than one year with his wife with the help of this scholarship. In his tour to England, France and the US, he met many well known writers, including E. M. Forster.

Works

Novels
Dramas
Short stories
Other
Articles
Characterisation
Autobiography
Translation into other languages
This article is based on his autobiography, written in 1974, and published by Mauj Prakashan.