Namdeo Dhasal
Namdeo Laxman Dhasal is a Marathi writer and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India.
Poetry
1) Golpitha (1973)
2) Tuhi Iyatta Kanchi
3) Khel
4) Moorkh Mhataryane
5) Priya Darshini
6) Ya Sattet Jiv Ramat Nahi
7) Gandu Bagichha
8) Mi Marale Suryachya Rathache Sat Ghode
9) Tuze Boat Dharoon Mi Chalalo Ahe
10) Dilip Chitre translated a selection of Dhasal's poems into English under the title Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underworld, Poems 1972-2006
Prose
Ambedkari Chalwal (1981)
Andhale Shatak (1997)
Hadki Hadavala
Ujedachi Kali Dunia
Sarva Kahi Samashtisathi
Buddha Dharma: Kahi Shesh Prashna
Awards and honors
Dhasal received Soviet Land Nehru Award (1974) for Golpitha.
He received the Maharashtra State Award for literature in 1973, 1974, 1982, and 1983; and Padma Shri award for literature from the Government of India in 1999.
In 2004, he received Sahitya Akademi's Golden Life Time Achievement Award
Poetry
1) Golpitha (1973)
2) Tuhi Iyatta Kanchi
3) Khel
4) Moorkh Mhataryane
5) Priya Darshini
6) Ya Sattet Jiv Ramat Nahi
7) Gandu Bagichha
8) Mi Marale Suryachya Rathache Sat Ghode
9) Tuze Boat Dharoon Mi Chalalo Ahe
10) Dilip Chitre translated a selection of Dhasal's poems into English under the title Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underworld, Poems 1972-2006
Prose
Ambedkari Chalwal (1981)
Andhale Shatak (1997)
Hadki Hadavala
Ujedachi Kali Dunia
Sarva Kahi Samashtisathi
Buddha Dharma: Kahi Shesh Prashna
Awards and honors
Dhasal received Soviet Land Nehru Award (1974) for Golpitha.
He received the Maharashtra State Award for literature in 1973, 1974, 1982, and 1983; and Padma Shri award for literature from the Government of India in 1999.
In 2004, he received Sahitya Akademi's Golden Life Time Achievement Award
