Vijaya RajadhyakshaVIJAYA RAJADHYAKSHA is a celebrated Marathi writer known for her short stories, personal essays and literary criticism. She presided over the prestigious All India Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held in Indore in 2001. Among the several awards she has won re the Sahitya Akademi award in 1993 and the Janasthan Puraskar in 2017. Rajadhyaksha was a professor of Marathi literature at Elphinstone College in Mumbai and then at the SNDT University in the same city. She was also given an emeritus fellowship by the University Grants Commission in 1994-96. She was born in Kolhapur in 1933. Read More Read Less