death_place death_date birth_date spouse image article_title name
pune , india 07 november 2009 3 july 1926 purushottam laxman deshpande sunita deshpande.jpg sunita deshpande
 sunita deshpande
sunita deshpande

sunita deshpande -lrb- 3 july 1926 -- 7 november 2009 -rrb- was a marathi writer from maharashtra , india .
her maiden name was sunita thakur .
she met pu la deshpande -lrb- पु .
ल .
देशपांडे -rrb- in 1945 , and they were married the next year on 12 june 1946 .
sunita-bai was a prolific reader during her youth , but began writing rather late in her life .
she wrote her memoirs `` aahe manohar tari ... '' -lrb- आहे मनोहर तरी ... -rrb- in 1990 -lrb- mauj publ . -rrb- .
the book received many awards .
it has been translated into gujarati -lrb- manohar chhe pan by suresh dalal , sndt , mumbai 1992 -rrb- , hindi -lrb- hai sabse madhur phir bhi by rekha deshpande , orient longman 1996 -rrb- , kannada -lrb- balu sogasadaru , by uma kulkarni , mahila sahitya , hubli -rrb- and english -lrb- . .
and pine for what is not , by gauri deshpande , orient longman , 1995 -rrb- .
several years ago , she and her husband presented many public programs of reciting the works of poets including arati prabhu , -lrb- चीं त्र खानोलकर -rrb- -lrb- bal sitaram mardhekar , and balakrishna bhagwant borkar .
she has acted in marathi movies like vande maataram , navra bayko , and plays like sunder mee honaar , raajemaster , and rajamaataa jijaabai -lrb- solo show -rrb- the deshpande couple donated large sums of money to charitable causes .
pu la deshpande died on 12 june 2000 .
sunita-bai , as she was fondly known as , was also a prolific correspondent.her book '' प्रिय जी.ए . ''
-lrb- her collection of numerous letters written by her to her pen-pal and famous marathi writer g. a. kulkarni won her the first `` g a kulkarni award '' for her remarkable literary contributions and influence in 2008 .
sunitabai deshpande died on november 7 , 2009 due to old age at her residence in pune .
she was 83 years old .
