Vasant Abaji Dahake

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Vasant Abaji Dahake (born March 30, 1942) is a Marathi poet, playwright, short story writer, artist, and critic from Amaravati district in the Maharashtra state of India. In 2009, ee was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection Chitralipi.^[1]

He was associated with the little magazine movement in Marathi during the mid-1950s and the 1960s. Dahake was the President of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Chandrapur in 2012.^[2] He is married and has two children.