Name(s) GOVIND PURUSHOTTAM DESHPANDE
Date of Birth 1938 (Date not known)
Date of Death October 16, 2013
Identity Marathi playwright and academic from Maharashtra, India.
Other Events & Developments
  • He was also known as GoPu (his Marathi initials), or GPD.
  • Born in Nashik, he taught at the Center for East Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi for many years.
  • He received the Maharashtra State Award for his collective work in 1977, and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for playwriting in 1996.
  • The U.S. Library of Congress has acquired twelve of his books, including a few on Chinese foreign policy.
  • Some of his works have been translated into English.
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