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Says Tuka-Selected poems of Tukaram
About the Book
1938″2009 was an outstanding bilingual poet Marathi and English, fiction writer, translator and critic, with numerous publications, honours and awards to his credit. In particular, he won the Sahitya Akademi Award 1994 for Ekoon Kavita ” 1, his book of Marathi poems, and the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 1994 for Says Tuka Penguin Classics, 1991, his English translation of Tukaram?s selected verse. From 2002 to 2009 he was honorary editor of the quarterly journal New Quest. He was also a recognized painter and film-maker.