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VISHWAS PATIL, recipient of the 1992 Sahitya Akademi Award, is a prominent novelist and playwright in Marathi. Born on 28th November, 1959 of farmer parents in the small village of Nerle in Maharashtra, Mr. Patil is today an I.A.S. officer in the Maharashtra cadre. Jhadazadati, the novel that fetched him the Sahitya Akademi Award is based on the life and plight of the people displaced by the construction of big dams. Widely translated into almost all languages in India, Mr. Patil’s social and historical novels have a mass as well as a class appeal. Mahanayak was the result of an extensive study and research for seven years during which Mr. Patil traveled through Japan, Germany, England and Burma, where Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his Indian National Army had created history. The novel, which came out of a long arduous research, was originally published in Marathi and went into six editions.

Nadeem Khan has been a teacher of the English language and literature for over 40 years, at Nagpur and Amravati in Maharashtra. Comfortable with Hindi, Marathi and Urdu, he has several translations to his name. Six decades of voracious reading and avid film watching helped him transfer the substance of Vishwas Patil s Marathi original into English with felicity and authenticity. Nadeem Khan currently heads the Regional Centre of the Govt. of India run Indian Institute of Mass Communication at Amravati.