What is Mangesh Padgaonkar?
[[File:Padgaonkar2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Padgaonkar in April 2012]] '''Mangesh Keshav Padgaonkar''' ([[Devanagari]]: मंगेश केशव पाडगांवकर; 10 March 1929 &ndash; 30 December 2015) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] poet from [[Maharashtra]], India. He was born on 10 March 1929 in [[Vengurla]], [[Sindhudurg District]] in Maharashtra. Padgaonkar has 40 publications to his credit. He began writing at the age of 14. The [[United States]] [[Library of Congress]] has 31 of his publications in their collection.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/mangeshpadgaonkar.html |title= The South Asian Literary Recording Project|publisher=Library of Congress, New Delhi|access-date=1 January 2010}}</ref> He has also translated works of Kabir and Surdas in Marathi along with [[Shakespeare]]'s plays ''[[The Tempest]]'', ''[[Julius Caesar]]'' and ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''. In 2008, his translation of the [[Bible]] was released. Padgaonkar died in [[Mumbai]] from a short illness at the age of 86.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/iconic-marathi-poet-mangesh-padgaonkar-passes-away-115123000159_1.html|title=Iconic Marathi poet Mangesh Padgaonkar passes away|first=Press Trust of|last=India|date=30 December 2015|via=Business Standard}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Padgaonkar, Mangesh}} [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Marathi people]] [[Category:20th-century Indian poets]] {{bio-stub}}