NARAYAN SURVE

     

Narayan surve

                                      -AACHAL BURANDE

                     Narayan Gangaram Surve was an outstanding Marathi poet who created a unique style of writing poems using the colloquial language of workers using a conversational prose-like style.
           Narayan Surveji  was born on October 15, 1926. Orphaned or abandoned soon after birth, he grew up in the streets of Mumbai, sleeping on the pavement and earning a meager livelihood by doing odd jobs. He taught himself to read and write. He actively worked in the workers' union movement in Mumbai and supported himself as a schoolteacher.

          In the 1970s, he was often championed in India as well as in the Soviet Union and some Eastern bloc countries as a proletarian poet.

           Narayan  Surve  received for his poetry Golden Lotus Award and Kabir Sammanin 1999 from the Madhya Pradesh government. He was a Convener of the Marathi Advisory Board of Sahitya Akademi. He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Parbhani in 1995.
In 1998, he received a Padma Shri award for excellence in Literature & Education.

         The following is a partial list of compilations of Narayan Surve's poems and essays:
          • Majhe Vidyapeeth (1966)
          • Jahirnama (1978)
          • Aisa Ga Mi Brahma
          • Sanad
          • Manush Kalawant
• Ani Samaj
• Sarva Surve (Editor: Vasant Shirwadkar)
• Mastaranchi savli