Gauri Deshpande

Gauri Deshpande (11 February 1942 – 1 March 2003) was a novelist, short story writer, and poet from Maharashtra, India. She wrote in Marathi and English.

Dr. Gauri Deshpande
Born	(1942-02-11)11 February 1942 Pune, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died	1 March 2003(2003-03-01) (aged 60) Pune, Maharashtra, India
Education	M.A., PhD
Occupation(s)	Writer, Poet

Biography

Deshpande was born in Pune to Irawati and Dinkar Dhondo Karve, youngest of three children.^{[citation needed]} She is also the granddaughter of the social reformer Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve.

Her daughter Urmila Deshpande is also an author and published the novels Kashmir Blues,^[1] A Pack of Lies,^[2] and Equal to Angels; the short story collection, Slither: Carnal Prose, and edited Madhouse: True stories of the Inmates of Hostel 4.^{[citation needed]}

Education

Deshpande finished her high school education at Ahilyadevi School in Pune.^{[citation needed]} She then attended Fergusson College to receive an M.A in English Literature. She eventually received her PhD in English from Pune University.^[1]

Professional life

Deshpande taught at the Department of English at Fergusson College^[3] and later as a professor at the department of English at the then University of Pune.

Death

Deshpande died in Pune on 1 March 2003 due to complications arising as a result of alcohol abuse.^[1] She is survived by two daughters from her first husband,^[2] one daughter from her second husband,^[2] three grandsons and a granddaughter.^{[citation needed]}

Works

Deshpande wrote in Marathi and English. Her works include fiction, non-fiction, short stories, articles and translations.

Marathi works

• Paus Ala Motha (1973)^[4]
• Ekek Pan Galawaya (1985) (fiction)^[5] ISBN 978-8174868510
  • translated to Gujarati as Ekek aa khare pandadun in 1989 by Jayantilal Mehta^[6]
• Teruo Te Ani Kahi Door Paryant (1985) (fiction)^[7] ISBN 978-8174868664
• Ahe He Ase Ahe (1986)^[8] ASIN B07H57L8RR
• Niragathi Ani Chandrike Ga Sarike Ga (1987) (fiction)^[9] ASIN B07NVXCTS6
• Dustar Ha Ghat Ani Thang (1989)(Marathi fiction)^[10] ISBN 978-8174867681
• Mukkam (1992) (fiction)^[11] ISBN 978-8174867445
• Vinchurniche Dhade (1996)(fiction)^[12] ASIN B00P97H35O
• Goph (1999) (fiction)^[13] ISBN 978-8174867605
• Utkhanan (2002) (fiction)^[14] ISBN 9788184989540
• She also translated the ten volumes of "Arabian Nights" written by Sir Richard Burton from English to Marathi. The volumes were published in 1976-77.^{[citation needed]}

English works

• "Between Births" (1968)^[15]
• Lost love (1970)^[16]
• The Murder (Article)^[17]
• Beyond the Slaughterhouse (1972) (poems)^[18]
• The position of women in India (1973) (Pamphlet)^[19]
• An anthology of Indo-English poetry (1974)^[20]
• Small is beautiful (Article)^[21]
• That's the way it is (1982)(Article published in Journal of South Asian literature)^[22] ISBN 9780226256092
• Collected Plays of Satish Alekar (1989) co-editor. Within the book, the story The Dread Departure was the english translation of the 1974 Marathi play Mahanirvan by Satish Alekar^[23][24][25]
• Right on, Sister! (1995) (Article co-authored with Vidyut Aklujkar published in Journal of South Asian literature)^[26]
• --and Pine for What Is Not (1995) (translation of Sunita Deshpande's Ahe Manohar Tari...)^{[citation needed]} ISBN 9780863115790
• The Lackadaisical Sweeper (1997) (short story collection)^[27] ISBN 9788186852040
• Diary of a decade of agony (translation of Avinash Dharmadhikari's Aswastha dashakachi diary)^{[citation needed]} ISBN 9780863116285
• The female of the Species (a short poem)^[28] ISBN 9780062320896

Influence

• In 1989, her book Ekek Pan Galawaya was translated to Gujarati as Ekek aa khare pandadun by Jayantilal Mehta^[6]
• In 2010, her book Niragathi Ani Chandrike Ga Sarike Ga was translated to English as Deliverance: a Novella by Shashi Deshpande^[29][30][31]
• In 2018, her book Paus Ala Motha was adapted into the Marathi film Aamhi Doghi.^[4]