Aruna Ramchandra Dhere Explained

Aruna Ramchandra Dhere
Birth Date:1957 2, df=y
Birth Place:Mumbai
Nationality:Indian
Education:Doctorate from Pune University
Occupation:Writer
Relatives:Varsha Ganjedragadkar

Aruna Ramchandra Dhere (Devanagari: अरुणा रामचंद्र ढेरे) (b. 2 Feb 1957) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.[1] She was the President of the 92nd Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Yavatmal in 2019.[2]

Education

Career

Aruna is the daughter of Ramchandra Chintamani Dhere.[3] She completed a M.A and a Ph.D in Marathi literature from Pune University. She was a lecturer and producer in the Educational Media Research Center at Pune University during 1983-1988, and then had a short stint in the Maharashtra State Education Institution. Aruna Dhere has been a multi-disciplinary freelance writer and researcher in the field of Marathi literature, credited with : About 40 books covering a wide spectrum of'

Literary work

Starting around 1990, Dhere took up a full-time career as a writer. Her literary works include personal essays, short stories, novels, poems, travelogues, children’s stories, and books on sant literature, folk literature, and social history.

She has written on the lives especially of women from earlier times who rebelled against old traditions.

Some of her poems have been translated into other languages, including English.

She has written a few television screenplays and dialogues.

Dhere has edited over a dozen publications and magazines.

She has won about thirty awards from government bodies and literary associations for her literary work.

Memberships

Books

The following is a partial list of Dhere's books:

वैचारिक

कथासंग्रह

कवितासंग्रह

Awards

Aruna Dhere has received nearly 40 Awards and Prizes from state government bodies including some coveted ones like...

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Aruna Dhere . https://web.archive.org/web/20120226140648/http://www.womensworldindia.org/Author.aspx?id=51 . dead . 2012-02-26 . womensworldindia.org . 2009-08-11 .
  2. Web site: ९२व्या मराठी साहित्य संमेलनाध्यक्षपदी डॉ. अरुणा ढेरे. https://web.archive.org/web/20181030082650/https://www.loksatta.com/maharashtra-news/yavatmal-92nd-sahitya-sammelan-aruna-dhere-elected-as-president-1780032/. 30 October 2018. 28 October 2018.
  3. https://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/maharashtra/pune-news/historian-ramchandra-chintaman-dhere-died-at-87/articleshow/53000787.cms इतिहास संशोधक रा. चिं. ढेरे यांचं निधन