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          Arun Kolatkar () was a reputed bilingual Indian poet whose poetic sequence, Jejuri, was re-published in the New York Review of Books Classics series.

        1. Arun Kolatkar () was a reputed bilingual Indian poet whose poetic sequence, Jejuri, was re-published in the New York Review of Books Classics series.
        2. Arun Kolatkar was an Indian poet from Maharashtra who wrote in both Marathi and English.
        3. Graphic artist, poet and songwriter, storyteller of Bombay and world history, poet in Marathi, in English and in 'Americanese', non-committal.
        4. Arun Kolatkar is a Maharashtrian poet who has written poems both in English and.
        5. The document discusses Arun Kolatkar, an Indian poet who wrote in both English and Marathi.

          6. Graphic artist, poet and songwriter, storyteller of Bombay and world history, poet in Marathi, in English and in 'Americanese', non-committal.!

          Arun Kolatkar

          Indian poet (1932–2004)

          Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (1 November 1932 – 25 September 2004) was an Indian poet[1] who wrote in both Marathi and English.

          His poems are known for expressing the humour in everyday life. Kolatkar is the only Indian poet other than Kabir to be featured on the World Classics titles of New York Review of Books.

          His first collection of English poetry, Jejuri, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1977.[2] His Marathi verse collection Bhijki Vahi won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005.

          An anthology of his works, Collected Poems in English, edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, was published in Britain by Bloodaxe Books in 2010.

          Arun Kolatkar was born in in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.

          Trained as an artist from the J. J. School of Art, he was also a graphics designer.

          Life

          Kolatkar was born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, where his father, Tatya Kolatkar, worked as an officer in the education department.

          He lived in a traditional Hindu extended family, along with his uncle's family