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{{Short description|Indian Marathi poet (1890–1918)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2014}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Trimbak Bapuji Thombre
| image = Trimbak Bapuji Thombre (Baalkavi) - (1890 – 1918).jpg
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1890|8|13}}
| birth_place = [[Patonda]], [[Khandesh district]], [[Bombay Presidency]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1918|5|5|1890|8|13}}
| death_place = Bhadli Railway Station, Jalgaon district
| native_name_lang = mr
| other_names = ''Balkavi ''([[pen name]])
| known_for = Poems in [[Marathi language]]
| notable_works =
| style =
| spouse = Parvati Bai<ref name=":0"/>
| occupation =
}}

'''Trimbak Bapuji Thombre''' ([[IAST]]:Trimbak Bāpūji Thombare; 13 August 1890 – 5 May 1918), (known popularly as '''Balkavi''' or '''Balkavi Thombre'''), was a [[Marathi language]] poet from [[Jalgaon district]] of Maharashtra, India.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=बालकवी |last=पवनीकर |first=श्रीकांत |url=https://maharashtratimes.com/maharashtra/nagpur/balkavi/articleshow/65722904.cms |access-date=2021-12-06 |website=[[Maharashtra Times]]|language=mr}}</ref>

==Biography==
Balkavi was born on 13 August 1889 in a [[Marathi people|Marathi]] [[Deshastha Brahmin]] family<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Modern Marathi Literature, 1800-1938|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yplHAAAAMAAJ|page=414|author=Govind Chimnaji Bhate|publisher=The author|year=1939|quote=TRIMBAK BĀPŪJI THOMBARE alias BĀLKAVI ( 1890-1918 ) Trimbak Bāpūji Thombare alias Bālkavi was born in 1890. His family belonged to a Deshastha Yajurvedi Brahmin časte.}}</ref> to Bapurao Devaram Thombre and Godatai in patonda near [[Dharangaon]] village in [[Khandesh district]] of [[Bombay Presidency]] in British India. His father was employed in police department. Due to frequent shuffling of postings of his father his education suffered a lot. Balkavi had an elder sister and also had an older and younger brother.<ref>{{Cite web|title=एक शापित गंधर्व|url=https://www.loksatta.com/lokprabha/vishesha/balkavi-tryambak-bapuji-thombre-2-1704845/|access-date=2021-12-06|website=[[Loksatta]]|language=mr}}</ref> Due to his father's job he spent his childhood in [[Jamner]], Yawal, [[Betawad]], Erandol towns of Jalgaon district. Till he went in fourth class he did not involved in poetry writing, in the fourth class he first time read the poems of Sridhar Mahipat.<ref name=":0" />

When Balkavi was 14 years old he traveled Kashmir, Aagra and Mathura with poet R. Vaidya. Balkavi's first ever poem was published at Erandol's ''Dasha kal'' weekly magazine, title as ''Mulans upadesh.'' When he was 17 he presented his poem in front of large audience at first ever poetic assembly of Maharashtra at Jalgaon. At this very gathering [[Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar]] bestowed him by Balkavi title.<ref name=":0" />

He spent a period of his childhood with writer and poet Narayan Tilak, a Marathi poet from the [[Konkan]] region of the [[Bombay Presidency]] in British Raj and a convert to Christianity. Narayan Tilak identified the talent within Tryambak and brought him to his home. Laxmibai Tilak had a motherly relationship with Balkavi. She mentioned some of her memories of Balkavi in her autobiography 'Smruti Chitre'.<ref name="Datta">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&q=BalKavi+Phulrani&pg=PA340|title=The Encyclopedia of Indian Literature|year=1987|access-date=2009-12-09 | first=Amaresh | last=Datta | isbn=978-81-260-1803-1 | publisher=Sahitya Akademi}}</ref>

==Notable work==
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Balkavi's poems are marked by exuberant language.<ref name=":0"/><ref name="Datta" /> Notable works include:
* {{Transliteration|mr|Phulrani}} ({{Langx|mr|फुलराणी}})
* {{Transliteration|mr|Audumber}} ({{Langx|mr|औदुंबर}})
* {{Transliteration|mr|Shraavan-Maasii Harshh Maanasii}} ({{Langx|mr|श्रावण मासी हर्ष मानसी}})
* {{Transliteration|mr|Anandi anand Gade, jikade tikade chohikade}} ({{Langx|mr|आनंदी आनंद गड़े जिकडे तिकडे चौहीकडे}})

== Legacy ==
Balkavi's poems was incorporated in [[Balbharati]] school text books.<ref name=":0" />

==References==
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[[Category:Marathi-language writers]]
[[Category:1890 births]]
[[Category:1918 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]
[[Category:Indian male poets]]
[[Category:Poets from Maharashtra]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]

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