Vijaya Rajadhyaksha

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  Shripad Narayan Pendse

  श्री ना पेंडसेंचा जन्म ५ जानेवारी १९१3 मध्ये रत्नागिरी जिल्ह्य़ातील मुर्डी या गावी झाला. १९२४ मध्ये पेंडसे मुंबईला स्थायिक झाले ते कायमचे. वयाच्या ११ व्या वर्षांपर्यंत त्यांनी जो कोकण पाहिला होता, आपल्या मनात साठवला होता, त्यावर ते आयुष्यभर लिहीत राहिले. मग तो साकव असेल, व्याघ्रेश्वराचे देऊळ असेल, किंवा नारळी-पोफळीच्या बागा असतील. त्या त्यांच्या भावविश्वाचा अतूट भाग झालेल्या होत्या. श्री. ना. पेंडसेंना खाजगीत शिरूभाऊ म्हणत. खाजगीतील (कौटुंबिक) हे नाव त्यांच्या मित्रमंडळीत आणि पुढे लेखनाच्या क्षेत्रातही रूढ झाले. त्यांच्या नावाचा उल्लेख साहित्य प्रांतातही ‘पेंडसे’ असा होण्याऐवजी ‘शिरूभाऊ’ असाच होत होता, याची प्रचीती ‘श्री. ना. पेंडसे : लेखक आणि माणूस’ या त्यांच्या आत्मचरित्रातूनही येते.
  
  

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  Dan Brown

  Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels, including The Da Vinci Code, which has become one of the best selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. Brown’s novels are published in 56 languages around the world with over 200 million copies in print.
  
  In 2005, Brown was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine, whose editors credited him with “keeping the publishing industry afloat; renewed interest in Leonardo da Vinci and early Christian history; spiking tourism to Paris and Rome; a growing membership in secret societies; the ire of Cardinals in Rome; eight books denying the claims of the novel and seven guides to read along with it; a

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  Jeffrey Archer

  Jeffrey is published in 114 countries and more than 47 languages, with more than 750,000 5* reviews with international sales passing 275 million copies.
  
  He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (nineteen times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries).
  
  Jeffrey has been married for 53 years to Dame Mary Archer DBE. They have two sons, William and James, three grandsons and two granddaughters, and divide their time between homes in London, Cambridge and Mallorca.

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  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her themes include the Indian experience, contemporary America, women, immigration, history, myth, and the joys and challenges of living in a multicultural world. Her work is widely known, as she has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies. Her works have been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Hindi and Japanese. Divakaruni also writes for children and young adults.Her novels One Amazing Thing, Oleander Girl, Sister of My Heart and Palace of Illusions are currently in the process of being made into movies. http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/books.... Her ne

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  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik (born December 11, 1970) is an Indian physician turned leadership consultant, mythologist and author whose works focus largely on the areas of myth, mythology, and also management. He has written a number of books related to Hindu mythology, including Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology, a novel, The Pregnant King, and Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata (2010).
  He is the Chief Belief Officer of Future Group, one of India’s largest retailers, bringing the wisdom of Indian mythology into Indian business, especifically in human resource management. He also writes a column for the newspaper MID DAY.
  He has also written a novel based on a tale from the Mahabharata titled 'The Pregnant King' published b

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  Sudha Murty

  Sudha Murty was born in 1950 in Shiggaon in north Karnataka. She did her MTech in computer science, and is now the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation. A prolific writer in English and Kannada, she has written nine novels, four technical books, three travelogues, one collection of short stories, three collections of non-fiction pieces and two books for children.
  
  Her books have been translated into all the major Indian languages and have sold over three lakh copies around the country. She was the recipient of the R.K. Narayan's Award for Literature and the Padma Shri in 2006.

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  Vyankatesh Madgulkar

  Vyankatesh Digambar Madgulkar (Marathi: व्यंकटेश दिगंबर माडगूळकर) (1927–2001) was one of the most popular Marathi writers of his time. He became well-known mainly for his realistic writings about village life in a part of southern Maharashtra called Maandesh, set in a period of 15 to 20 years before and after India's Independence.
  
  Madgulkar wrote 8 novellas, over 200 short stories, about 40 screenplays, and some folk plays (लोकनाट्य), travelogues, and essays on nature. He translated some English books into Marathi, especially books on wild life, as he was an avid hunter.

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  Μαρία Ιορδανίδου

  Maria Iordanidou
  Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
  
  Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται

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  Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar

  In 1920, Khandekar started working as a school teacher in a small town.He worked in that school until 1938.While working as a teacher,Khandekar produced in his spare time abundant Marathi literature in various forms. In his lifetime, he wrote sixteen novels, six plays, around 250 short stories, 50 allegorical stories, 100 essays, and over 200 critiques.

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  V.P. Kale

  Vasant Purushottam Kale, popularly known as Va Pu, was Marathi writer who wrote short stories, novels, and biographical sketches.He authored more than 60 books. His well-known books include Partner, Vapurza, Hi Waat Ekatichi, and Thikri.

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  Anand Neelakantan

  Anand Neelakantan is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, and public speaker. He is known for writing mythological fictions and has authored ten books in English and one in Malayalam. He follows the style of telling stories based on the perspective of the antagonists or supporting characters of a larger work. His debut work Asura: Tale of the Vanquished (2012) was based on the Indian epic Ramayana, told from the perspective of Ravana—the first book in his Ramayana series. It was followed by series of books based on characters from Mahabharata and Baahubali. His books have been translated to different languages such as Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali , Gujarati, Assamese, English and Indonesian Bahasa.
  
  Anand's

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  Ratnakar Matkari

  Matkari's first work, the one-act play Wedi Manase,was presented in 1955 on All India Radio in Mumbai.His play Pahuni was presented the next year at another venue.
  
  Matkari worked as a columnist for newspapers and magazines in the 1970s. He wrote the column Soneri Savalya n Apale Mahanagar for four years.
  
  Matkari's 98 works thus far include 33 plays, 8 collections of his one-act plays, 18 books of his short stories, 3 novels, a book of poems for children, and 14 plays and three collections of plays for children.His works include Gudha Katha --mysteries—for adults which maintain realism.Matkari wrote a few plays in Indian languages other than Marathi.Many of Matkari's novellas have been adapted for the stage.

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  Shripad Narayan Pendse

  श्री ना पेंडसेंचा जन्म ५ जानेवारी १९१3 मध्ये रत्नागिरी जिल्ह्य़ातील मुर्डी या गावी झाला. १९२४ मध्ये पेंडसे मुंबईला स्थायिक झाले ते कायमचे. वयाच्या ११ व्या वर्षांपर्यंत त्यांनी जो कोकण पाहिला होता, आपल्या मनात साठवला होता, त्यावर ते आयुष्यभर लिहीत राहिले. मग तो साकव असेल, व्याघ्रेश्वराचे देऊळ असेल, किंवा नारळी-पोफळीच्या बागा असतील. त्या त्यांच्या भावविश्वाचा अतूट भाग झालेल्या होत्या. श्री. ना. पेंडसेंना खाजगीत शिरूभाऊ म्हणत. खाजगीतील (कौटुंबिक) हे नाव त्यांच्या मित्रमंडळीत आणि पुढे लेखनाच्या क्षेत्रातही रूढ झाले. त्यांच्या नावाचा उल्लेख साहित्य प्रांतातही ‘पेंडसे’ असा होण्याऐवजी ‘शिरूभाऊ’ असाच होत होता, याची प्रचीती ‘श्री. ना. पेंडसे : लेखक आणि माणूस’ या त्यांच्या आत्मचरित्रातूनही येते.
  
  

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