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About Vasant Abaji Dahake
- 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.
- He is awarded Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection Chitralipi for 2009.His writings show an influence of existentialist writers like Kafka.
- His poetry is often dark and provocative. He is 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.
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