Vasant Abaji Dahake
Vasant Abaji Dahake is a Marathi poet, playwright, short story writer, artist, and critic from Amaravati district in the Maharashtra state of India. He is awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection Chitralipi for 2009.
His writings show an influence of existentialist writers like Kafka. His poetry is often dark and provocative.
He is associated with the little magazine movement in Marathi during the mid-1950s and the 1960s. Dahake was the President of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Chandrapur in 2012.Works
Poetry
- Yogabhrashta.
- Shubha-Wartaman
- Shunah-Shepa
- Chitralipi
Fiction
- Adholoka
- Pratibaddha Ani Martya”
Essays & Literary Criticism
- Yatra Antaryatra
- Kavita Mhanje Kay?
- Samakaleen Sahitya
- Kavitevishayi
maltekdivarun
Other Works
- Nivadak Sadanand Rege
- Shaleya Marathi Shabdakosh .
- Sankshipta Marathi Vangmayakosh
- Kavita Visavya Shatakachi
- Vangmayin Samdnya-Sankalpana Kosh''