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Vinda’s winning stroke Vinda’s
collections include Shwetaganga (1949), Mrudgandha (1954), Dhrupad,
Sahita and Vrupika. Vinda is known for writing children’s poems
like Ranichi Bag, Sashyache kan and Pari ga Pari. Vinda is the
third Marathi writer to have won the Jnanpith Award, after Vishnu Sakharam
Khandekar (1974) and Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar i.e. Kusumagraj (1987). The Grand
Old Man of Marathi literature has been the recipient of many other awards
including Keshavsut Prize, Soviet Land Nehru Literary Award and the Kabir
Samman.
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Govind Vinayak
Karandikar (born on August 23, 1918), better known as Vinda Karandikar, the
eminent Marathi poet is the winner of the 39th Jnanpith Award. He is said to be
the most experimental and comprehensive of all modern Marathi poets. Vinda has
also contributed to Marathi literature as an essayist, critic and translator
(he translated Aristotle’s poetry into Marathi). He translated his own poems
into English and has also written poetry in English (Vinda poems of 1975).
He also modernised old classics like Dnyaneshwari and Amrutanubhav.