Narayan Gangaram Surve

Narayan Surve
Born Narayan Gangaram Surve
15 October 1926
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Died 16 August 2010
Thane, Maharashtra, India
Occupation Poet
Awards Padma Shri

Narayan Gangaram Surve (October 15, 1926 – August 16, 2010) was a Marathi poet from Maharashtra, India.

Life and career

He was born on October 15, 1926. Orphaned or abandoned soon after birth, he grew up in the streets of Mumbai, sleeping on the pavement and earning a meager livelihood by doing odd jobs. He taught himself to read and write, and in 1962, published his first collection of poems Aisa Ga Mi Brahma (ऐसा गा मी ब्रह्म ; Aisa Ga Mi Brahma). Majhe Vidyapeeth (माझे विद्यापीठ ; My University), the book he would be most known for appeared in 1966 while he stayed in Chinchpokli, Mahahrashtra. He received 11 prizes for his book Majhe Vidyapeeth Though he studied only till second standard and never climbed the steps of a college, he is known as one of the best poets of Marathi language.

Surve actively worked in the workers' union movement in Mumbai and supported himself as a schoolteacher. Surve who had lots of faith in Karl Marx won the 'Soviet Land Nehru Award' (for his book Majhe Vidyapeeth) from Soviet Russia in the year 1973 as communist people of Russia were very much fascinated by his views and they thought that he was just one among them. He became the editor of Lokvadmaygruha in the year 1972.

In the 1970s, he was often championed in India as well as in the Soviet Union and some Eastern bloc countries as a proletarian poet.

He died due to old age and after a brief illness on August 16, 2010.

Awards and recognition

Famous works

The following is a partial list of compilations of Surve's poems and essays:

References

  1. "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved July 21, 2015.
  2. "Narayan Gangaram Surve | Persistence Resistance". Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  3. "AWARDS OF MADHYA PRADESH GOVERNMENT". Retrieved 14 March 2013.
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