NARAYAN SURVE

                                               NARAYAN SURVE 

Narayan Gangaram Surve 15th October 1929 - 16th August 2010 was a Marathi poet . He was a capable, distinguished poet who grew up in the streets of Mumbai and began his life as a mill worker.Gangaram Surve and his writings are influenced by Marxism. Through his poems he vociferously proclaimed social revolution. He has created a unique style of poem writing using the colloquial language of workers using a conversational prose-like style.Majhe Widyapith, Jahirnama and Aisa Ga Mi Brahma are his major poems. He has been awarded with Padma Shri in 1998 for his excellence in Literature and education.. Orphaned or abandoned soon after birth, he grew up in the streets of Mumbai, sleeping on the pavement and earning a meager livelihood by doing odd jobs. He taught himself to read and write, and in 1962, published his first collection of poems Aisa Ga Mi Brahma 

the book he would be most known for appeared in 1966 while he stayed in Chinchpokli, Mahahrashtra. He received 11 prizes for his book Majhe Vidyapeeth Though he studied only till second standard and never climbed the steps of a college, he is known as one of the best poets of Marathi language.

Surve actively worked in the workers' union movement in Mumbai and supported himself as a schoolteacher. Surve who had lots of faith in Karl Marx won the 'Soviet Land Nehru Award' (for his book Majhe Vidyapeeth) from Soviet Russia in the year 1973 as communist people of Russia were very much fascinated by his views and they thought that he was just one among them. He became the editor of Lokvadmaygruha in the year 1972.

In the 1970s, he was often championed in India as well as in the Soviet Union and some Eastern bloc countries as a proletarian poet.

He died due to old age and after a brief illness on August 16, 2010.