Arvind Gokhale
Aravind Gokhale (1919 - 1992) was a Marathi writer of short stories. He hailed from Maharashtra, India.
Aravind Gokhale received his M.Sc. in Botany from Bombay University. He received his M.S. in Agricultural Journalism from Wisconsin University. He taught and conducted research in Economic Botany for 20 years at the College of Agriculture in Poona. He later worked as a Fertilizer Executive with a firm in Bombay, The Dharamsi Morarji Chemical Co. Ltd. He lived in both Bombay (where he worked) and Poona (where his family lived).[citation needed]
He was one of the pioneers of the modern Marathi short story. He had written over 300 short stories in Marathi, collected in 20 books, by 1965. His stories have been translated in most of the Indian and European languages. He was the Editor of "Pick of the Year" a Marathi annual of short stories.[citation needed]
He received State Awards for three successive years for best short story collections.[citation needed]
He was awarded a prize (shared) for the best short story in an Afro-Asian Short Story competition organized by the London-based Encounter magazine.[citation needed]}
He wrote numerous film-scripts, radio skits and a travelogue on the U.S.[citation needed]
Authorship
Gokhale wrote 25 collections of his short stories. The following are some of them:
- Najarana (1944)
- Maher (1949)
- Mithila (1959)
- Anamika (1961)
- Nakoshi (1977)
- Mukta
- Manjula
- Rikta
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