Arun Kolatkar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Arun Kolatkar

Indian writer

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1932

Place of Birth: Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India

Date of Death: 25-Sep-2004

Profession: writer, poet, translator, author, linguist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (Marathi: ???? ???????? ??????) (1 November 1932 – 25 September 2004) was an Indian poet who wrote in both Marathi and English.
His poems found humor in many everyday matters.
He exerted profound influence on modern Indian poets including Ranjit Hoskote.
His first collection of English poetry, Jejuri won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1977.
His Marathi verse collection Bhijki Vahi won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005.
An anthology of his works, Collected Poems in English, edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, was published in Britain by Bloodaxe Books in 2010.
He was awarded the Commonwealth poetry price for his poetry "Jejuri" Trained as an artist from the J.
J.
School of Art, he was also a noted graphics designer.'The Bus' is a fine poem from epic Jejuri.In this poem the poet describes its journey by State Transport Bus in Maharashtra.The poet and other pilgrims are going to Jejuri to visit the temple of God Khandoba.