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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Narayan Surve<br />
| image =<br />
| birth_name = Narayan Gangaram Surve<br />
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], India<br />
| death_place =[[Thane]], [[Maharashtra]], India<br />
| occupation = [[Poet]]<br />
| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br />
|death_date = 16 August 2010|birth_date = 15 October 1926}}<br />
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'''Narayan Gangaram Surve''' (15 October 1926 – 16 August 2010 <ref>https://maharashtratimes.com/-/articleshow/6317725.cms</ref>) was a [[Marathi people|Marathi]] poet from [[Maharashtra]], India.<br />
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==Life and career==<br />
He was born on 15 October 1926. 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'' (ऐसा गा मी ब्रह्म ; ''Aisa Ga Mi Brahma''). ''Majhe Vidyapeeth'' (माझे विद्यापीठ ; ''My University''), 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''<br />
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.<br />
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Surve actively worked in the workers' union movement in Mumbai and supported himself as a schoolteacher. Surve, who had much faith in Karl Marx, won the 'Soviet Land Nehru Award' (for his book Majhe Vidyapeeth) from the Soviet Union in the year 1973 as communist people of Russia were fascinated by his views and considered him similar to them. He became the editor of ''Lokvadmaygruha'' in the year 1972.<br />
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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.<br />
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He died due to old age and after a brief illness on 16 August 2010.<br />
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==Awards and recognition==<br />
* He received 'Soviet Land Nehru Award' from Soviet Russia in 1973{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}<br />
* In 1998, he received a [[Padma Shri]] award from the Government of India for excellence in Literature & Education.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015}}</ref><br />
* In 2003, A Marathi Short Film named "Narayan Gangaram Surve" was awarded with 'Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal)', a certificate and cash prize during the 50th National Film Awards.<ref>{{cite web|title=Narayan Gangaram Surve {{!}} Persistence Resistance|url=http://www.persistenceresistance.in/festival2011/synopsis/narayan-gangaram-surve.html|access-date=14 March 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912175841/http://www.persistenceresistance.in/festival2011/synopsis/narayan-gangaram-surve.html|archive-date=12 September 2011}}</ref><br />
* In 1999, he was conferred Kabir Sammanin by the state government of [[Madhya Pradesh]].<ref>{{cite web|title=AWARDS OF MADHYA PRADESH GOVERNMENT|url=http://www.culturopedia.in/Awards/awards_state.html|access-date=14 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130331122935/http://www.culturopedia.in/Awards/awards_state.html|archive-date=31 March 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
* Narayan Surve was a Convener of the Marathi Advisory Board of [[Sahitya Akademi]].<br />
* He presided over [[Marathi Sahitya Sammelan]] at [[Parbhani]] in 1995.<br />
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==Famous works==<br />
The following is a partial list of compilations of Surve's poems and essays:<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120324203905/http://www.popularprakashan.com/-21.htm सुर्वे: नारायण सुर्वे यांच्या समग्र कविता] Publisher [[Popular Prakashan]]<br />
* माझे विद्यापीठ (''Majhe Vidyapeeth'') (1966)<br />
* जाहीरनामा (''Jahirnama'') (1978)<br />
* ऐसा गा मी ब्रह्म (''Aisa Ga Mi Brahma'') (1962)<br />
* सनद (''Sanad'')<br />
* मानुष कलावंत (''Manush Kalawant'')<br />
* आणि समाज (''Ani Samaj'')<br />
* सर्व सुर्वे (''Sarva Surve'') (संपादन: वसंत शिरवाडकर) (Editor: Vasant Shirwadkar)<br />
* "Mastaranchi Savli" (Book written by his wife, Krishnabai Surve)<br />
* ''On the Pavement of Life'' (1973) is a compilation of English translations of Surve's early poems.<br />
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