Aruna Ramchandra Dhere
Aruna Ramchandra Dhere (Devanagari: अरुणा रामचंद्र ढेरे) (b. 2 Feb 1957) is a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. She was the President of the 92nd Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held at Yavatmal in 2019. Career. Aruna Dhere has completed masters in art and a Ph.D. from Pune University in Marathi literature. She was a lecturer and producer in the Educational Media Research Center at Pune University during 1983-1988, and then had a short stint in the Maharashtra State Education Institution. She is daughter of Ramchandra Chintamani Dhere. Aruna Dhere has been a multi-disciplinary freelance  writer and researcher in the field of Marathi literature, credited with : About 40 books covering a wide spectrum of Literary work. Starting around 1990, Dhere took up a full-time career as a writer. Her literary works include personal essays, short stories, novels, poems, travelogues, children’s stories, and books on sant literature, folk literature, and social history. She has written on the lives especially of women from earlier times who rebelled against old traditions. Some of her poems have been translated into other languages, including English. She has written a few television screenplays and dialogues. Dhere has edited over  a dozen publications and magazines. She has won about thirty awards from government bodies and literary associations for her literary work. Books. The following is a partial list of Dhere's books: वैचारिक कथासंग्रह कवितासंग्रह Awards. Aruna Dhere has received nearly 40 Awards and Prizes from state government bodies including some coveted ones like...