Raghunath Vaman Dighe (Marathi: रघुनाथ वामन दिघे) (23 March 1896 - 4 July 1980) was a Marathi writer from Bombay Presidency, India (some of his later works where created when the area was known as Bombay State or after the state was divided and the area became Maharashtra). He wrote notable novels pertaining to rural life in Maharashtra.

Dighe started his professional career as a lawyer in Pune, but later moved to the nearby small town of Khopoli and switched to full-time writing.

Raghunath Vaman Dighe

Works

Novels

Pankala (पाणकळा) (1939) Sarai (सराई) (1943) Poortata (पूर्तता) (1944) Nisargakanya Ranjai (निसर्गकन्या रानजाई) (1946) Ganlubdha Mruganayana (गानलुब्धा मृगनयना) (1947) Pad Re Panya (पड रे पाण्या) (1948) Aai Ahe Shetat (आई आहे शेतात) Kartiki (कार्तिकी) Sonaki (सोनकी) Ramya Ratri (रम्य रात्री)

Raghunath Vaman Dighe

A 1974 movie Kartiki (कार्तिकी) was made as based on the novel with the same name.

Raghunath Vaman Dighe

Dighe was a script writer of the movie Madhosh.

Play

Majha Sabud (माझा सबुद)

Collection of poems

Gatat Nachtat Dharatichi Lekare (गातात नाचतात धरतीची लेकरे)

References

https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&dq=R+V+dighe&pg=PA1044

1896 births

1980 deaths

Marathi people

Indian male novelists

Marathi-language writers

Marathi novelists

20th-century Indian novelists

Novelists from Maharashtra

20th-century Indian male writers