{{Short description|Indian author and historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}} {{BLP sources|date=October 2012}} {{Infobox person | name = Vishwas Patil | image = | birth_date = 28 November 1959 | birth_place = Nerle, Kolhapur, India | citizenship = Indian | education = Shivaji University (M.A. L.L.B) | occupation = Writer, IAS Officer | works = • ''Zadazadati''<br/> • ''Panipat''<br/>• ''Mahanayak''<br/>• ''Chandramukhi'' | awards = Sahitya Akademi Award (1992) }}
'''Vishwas Patil''' (born 28 November 1959) is an Indian author and an officer in the Indian Administrative Service. He was born in the village of Nerle in Kolhapur district. He completed his MA in literature from Shivaji University Kolhapur.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/nation/story/20120102-1761-panipat-war-cost-the-marathas-rs-92-lakh-750131-2011-12-23|title=The Burden of Battle|last=Tare|first=Kiran|date=23 December 2011|publisher=India Today|access-date=19 November 2012}}</ref><ref name="Complaints of money distributed at Azmi’s rally">{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/58729/|title=Retrial at Red Fort|last= Deshmukh|first=Vinita|date=16 November 2004 |newspaper=The Indian Express|access-date=26 May 2018|location=Pune}}</ref> He completed his masters M.A. in English Literature and a degree in Law.{{citation needed|date=October 2012}}
==Works== *''Lust for Lalbaug'', novel about the Great Bombay textile strike, published by Rajhans Prakashan, 2015 *''Panipat'', novel about the Third Battle of Panipat *''Sambhaji'', biographical novel about Sambhaji *''Ranangan'', play based on novel ''Panipat'' *''Chandramukhi'', novel based on relations between a politician and a "tamasha" dancer *''Not gone with the wind'', novel based on the film industry personalities *''Pangira'', novel about hardship of village people *''Mahanayak'', biographical novel about Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose *''Zadazadati (novel)'', a touching story of people displaced due to infrastructure projects like dams, awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Patil|first1=Vishwas|last2=Ramachandra|first2=Keerti (English translator)|title=A Dirge for the Dammed|date=2014|publisher=Hachette India|location=Gurgaon, India|isbn=978-93-5009-590-4}}</ref>
==Awards== *1989 Nath Madhav Award for ''Panipat'' *1990 Priyadarshini National Award for ''Zadazadati'', Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award for ''Panipat'', Vikhe Patil Award for ''Zadazadati'' *1992 Sahitya Akademi Award for ''Zadazadati''<ref>[http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/showSearchAwardsResult.jsp?year=&author=Vishwas+Patil&awards=AA&language=SELECT Sahitya Akademi Awards Information]</ref> *1998 Gadakri Award for ''Mahanayak'' *2026 Presidentship of 99th Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Satara
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