Jaywant Dalvi
Screenwriter, Film writer
– 1994
Who was Jaywant Dalvi?
Jaywant Dalvi was a prominent contemporary Marathi writer in Maharashtra, India, originally from Arawali in Maharashtra.
He worked as an assistant editor at Marathi newspapers Prabhāt and Lokmānya, and later with USIS. As part of USIS efforts to make good English literature available in other languages, Dalvi selected texts and able translators, and helped the cause. He took an early retirement to concentrate on writing novels.
He is best remembered for his dramas, and a humorous column on Marathi literary personalities which he wrote under the pseudonym : ThanthanpaaL. Jaywant Dalvi had a long time friendly relations with noted Marathi literary couple Pu La Deshpande and Sunita Deshpande.
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- Also known as
- जयवंत दाल्वी
- Nationality
- India
- Profession
- Died
- 1994
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on July 23, 2013
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