30 January - 3 February 2025 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur
Vishwas Patil is an eminent novelist in Marathi literature. He has written thirteen novels on many realistic issues and adversities of the masses. At the age of thirty-two, Patil became the youngest recipient of that coveted Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Jhadazadati: A Dirge for the Dammed. He has also been awarded the Indira Goswami National Award and Priyadarshini National Award for literature. The author of critically acclaimed books like Not Gone with the Wind, Anna Bhahu: the Lion of Dalit Literature, Patil's famous play The Battlefield of Panipat, was directed by Waman Kendre and performed in India and USA.