Rajan Gawas (राजन गवस)

Rajan Gawas

राजन गवस

Rajan Gawas is a Marathi novelist, short-story writer, poet and critic from the Kolhapur–Karnataka border country, whose agrarian life and border speech run through his fiction. Born on 21 November 1959 at Atyal in Gadhinglaj taluka of Kolhapur district, into a farming family, he studied at Atyal and Gadhinglaj, took his M.A. at Shivaji University in 1982, and wrote his M.Phil. and Ph.D. on the fiction of Bhau Padhye. He taught for twenty-three years at Mouni Vidyapeeth, Gargoti, then at the University of Pune, and from 2013 was professor of Marathi at Shivaji University, Kolhapur, retiring in 2019 as head of the department.

His novels include Chaundak (1985), Bhandarbhog (1988), Dhingana (1992), Kalap (1997), Tanakat (1998) and Ba Balicha (2012), and the stories of Rivanavayali Mungi draw on his own childhood. Tanakat, a detached picture of caste feeling in the rural mind drawn through several social layers and regional dialects, received the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2001 and has appeared in English as Weeds. Chaundak and Bhandarbhog, set in the Yellamma tradition of the border villages, supplied the story of the 2009 film Jogwa, which won National Film Awards.

Shabdalaya Prakashan published his critical studies Changdev Chatushtayasambandhi (2001) and Bhau Padhye Yanchi Kadambari (2006), the latter returning to the subject of his doctoral research.

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Sahitya Akademi Award 2001, for the novel Tanakat

Sanskruti Award, Sanskriti Pratishthan, New Delhi (1992)

Maharashtra State award for outstanding novel (1994)

Maharashtra Foundation Award, United States (2001)

Labhsetwar Award (2008)

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