Vishwas Patil

Vishwas Patil (born 28 November 1959) is an Indian author and an officer in Indian Administrative Service.^[1][2] He completed his masters M.A. in English Literature and a degree in Law.^{[citation needed]}

Vishwas Patil
Born	28 November 1959 Nerle, Kolhapur, India
Nationality	Indian
Education	M.A.
Occupation(s)	Writer, IAS Officer
Works	• Zadazadati • Panipat • Mahanayak • Chandramukhi
Awards	Sahitya Akademi Award (1992)

Works

• Lust for Lalbaug, novel about Great Bombay textile strike publisher Rajhans Prakashan, 2015
• Panipat, novel about Third Battle of Panipat
• Sambhaji, biographical novel about Sambhaji
• Ranangan, play based on novel Panipat
• Chandramukhi, novel based on relations between a politician and a "tamasha" dancer
• Not gone with the wind, novel based on the film industry personalities
• Pangira, novel about hardship of village people
• Mahanayak, biographical novel about Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
• Zadazadati (novel), a touching story of people displaced due to infrastructure projects like dams, it was honoured with Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992,^[3]

Awards

• 1989 Nath Madhav Award for Panipat
• 1990 Priyadarshini National Award for Zadazadati, Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award for Panipat, Vikhe Patil Award for Zadazadati
• 1992 Sahitya Akademi Award for Zadazadati^[4]
• 1998 Gadakri Award for Mahanayak