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"bio": "\nPurushottam Laxman Deshpande (alternatively written as Pu La Deshpande; 8 November 1919 – 12 June 2000), popularly known by his initials (\"Pu. La.\") or as P. L. Deshpande, was a Marathi writer and humorist from Maharashtra. He was also an accomplished film and stage actor, script writer, author, composer, musician, singer and orator. He was often referred to as \"Maharashtra's beloved personality\".\nDeshpande's works have been translated into several languages including English and Kannada.",
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"name": "Purushottam Yashwant Deshpande",
"bio": "Purushottam Yashwant Deshpande (popularly called P.Y. Deshpande, or simply P.Y), (December 1899 – 26, July 1986) was an Indian writer in Marathi. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Marathi language in 1962 for his philosophical work Anamikachi Chintanika (अनामिकाची चिंतनिका, Meditations of an anonymous person).\nDeshpande was known as a multi-faceted personality, who was at various times a novelist, journalist, political activist and a philosopher and commentator of Indian scriptures, besides being associated with the Krishnamurti school of philosophy. He also served as a member of the Provisional Parliament of India, between 1950 and 1952, representing Madhya Pradesh (which was formed out of the erstwhile Central Provinces and Berar, along with some princely states which acceded to India)\nHe was the father of Indian social activist and former member of the Upper House of the Indian parliament Nirmala Deshpande. His wife Vimalabai, also a poet,(p85) was a minister (parliamentary secretary) of Central Provinces and Berar, under the premiership of Ravishankar Shukla, at the time of Indian independence in 1947.",
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"name": "Sunita Deshpande",
"bio": "\nSunita Deshpande (née Thakur; 3 July 1926 – 7 November 2009) was an Indian writer. She was fondly called \"Sunitabai\".\nDeshpande began writing late in her life. She published her memoir Aahe Manohar Tari (आहे मनोहर तरी) in 1990. The book has been translated into Gujarati\n(\"Manohar chhe pan\" by Suresh Dalal, SNDT, Mumbai 1992), Hindi (\"Hai Sabse madhur phir bhi\" by Rekha Deshpande, Orient Longman 1996), Kannada (\"Balu Sogasadaru\", by Uma Kulkarni, Mahila Sahitya, Hubli) and English (\"..And Pine For What Is Not\", by Gauri Deshpande, Orient Longman, 1995).",
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"name": "Govind Ballal Deval",
"bio": "\nGovind Ballal Deval (1855–1916) was a Marathi playwright from Maharashtra, India.\nDeval was born in 1855 in a village in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, but he spent his childhood in Haripur near Sangli. He attended a high school in Belgaum, where he came in contact with, and was influenced by, playwright/actor Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar, who worked as a teacher in that school.",
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"name": "Narayan Dharap",
"bio": "Narayan Dharap (27 August 1925 – 18 August 2008) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.\nHe wrote more than 100 books in Marathi, primarily in the horror genre. Many of Dharap's novels and stories were inspired from contemporary American authors including Stephen King. Shapath was a story inspired by King's \"IT\" and \"Gramma\" (later made into the film Tumbbad). Narayan Dharap was also the first Marathi author to bring HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu to Marathi readers. \nDharap earned a B.Sc. (Tech) degree from Mumbai University.",
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"name": "Namdeo Laxman Dhasal",
"bio": "\n\nNamdeo Laxman Dhasal (15 February 1949 – 15 January 2014) was a Marathi poet, writer and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India. He was one of the founders of the Dalit Panthers in 1972, a social movement aimed at destroying caste hierarchy in Indian society. The movement was active in the 1970s and the 1980s during which time it popularised the usage of the term dalit in India. Dhasal was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sahitya Akademi in 2004.",
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"name": "Aruna Ramchandra Dhere",
"bio": "\nAruna Ramchandra Dhere (Devanagari: अरुणा रामचंद्र ढेरे) (b. 2 Feb 1957) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. She was the President of the 92nd Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Yavatmal in 2019.\nAruna is the daughter of Ramchandra Chintamani Dhere. She completed a M.A and a Ph.D in Marathi literature from Pune University. She was a lecturer and producer in the Educational Media Research Center at Pune University during 1983-1988, and then had a short stint in the Maharashtra State Education Institution. \nAruna Dhere has been a multi-disciplinary freelance writer and researcher in the field of Marathi literature, \ncredited with : About 40 books covering a wide spectrum of'",
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"name": "Ramchandra Chintamani Dhere",
"bio": "\nRamchandra Chintaman Dhere (21 July 1930 – 1 July 2016) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.\nDhere was born in the small village of Nigade in Pune district. He was orphaned at an early age of five. He studied at Municipal School, Pune, Poona English School, Poona Night School and graduated in 1966. During high school days he worked as a proof reader in the local press.",
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"bio": "Madhukar Vasudev Dhond (M. V. Dhond, In Devanagari: मधुकर वासुदेव धोंड, म. वा. धोंड) (3 October 1914 – 5 December 2007) was a literary and art critic from Maharashtra, India.\nHe wrote in Marathi on Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Tukaram, Ramdas, Vitthal, Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Ram Ganesh Gadkari, Bal Sitaram Mardhekar, Dattatraya Ganesh Godse, Anandi Gopal Joshi, Ranjit Desai's novel Swami, Vijay Tendulkar's play Sakharam Binder, and many other topics.\nDhond received in 1997 a Sahitya Akademi Award for his book Jnaneshwaritil Laukik Srushti.",
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"bio": "Raghunath Vaman Dighe (Marathi: रघुनाथ वामन दिघे) (23 March 1896 - 4 July 1980) was a Marathi writer from Bombay Presidency, India (some of his later works where created when the area was known as Bombay State or after the state was divided and the area became Maharashtra). He wrote notable novels pertaining to rural life in Maharashtra.\nDighe started his professional career as a lawyer in Pune, but later moved to the nearby small town of Khopoli and switched to full-time writing.\nA 1974 movie Kartiki (कार्तिकी) was made as based on the novel with the same name.",
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"name": "Muktabai Dixit",
"bio": "Muktabai Dixit (Devanagari: मुक्ताबाई दीक्षित) (1901 or 1902 - 1977) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.\nShe was born in December 1901 in the town of Edalabad in Khandesh. After finishing her high school education in Huzurpaga girls' school in Pune in 1922, she received her college education at S. P. College, also in Pune, to obtain her B.A. degree in philosophy and psychology from Mumbai University. After receiving a degree in teaching, she served as a teacher for seven years at Maharani High School in Baroda. In 1935, she obtained a master's degree in Marathi literature from Nagpur University and joined the faculty of Thackersey College of SNDT Women's University in Pune as a professor of Marathi. Her husband owned the shop 'International Book Service', which is located in the Deccan Gymkhana area of Pune.",
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