Biography
Atmaram Raoji Deshpande (Marathi: ???????? ????? ????????) was a Marathi poet from Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, India. He wrote poems under the pen name Anil (????). He was born on 11 September 1901 at Murtijapur in Akola district of Central India. He was married to Kusum Jayawant in 1929 who took the name Kusumavati Deshpande, was also a Marathi writer.
Deshpande introduced free style --Muktachhand (????????)-- poetry to Marathi literature. He also introduced in Marathi Dashapadi (?????), a new genre of sonnets comprising ten lines. His collection of poems with the same name Dashapadi (?????) received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1977. He was elected for Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1979.
He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (????? ??????? ???????) at Malvan in 1958.
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