Background
He was born on October 15, 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 was born on October 15, 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.
Majhe Vidyapeeth (माझे विद्यापीठ. My University), the book he would be most known for appeared in 1966 while he stayed in Chinchpokli, Mahahrashtra. Surve actively worked in the workers" union movement in Mumbai and supported himself as a schoolteacher.
He became the editor of Lokvadmaygruha in the year 1972.
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. He died due to old age and after a brief illness on August 16, 2010.
He received "Soviet Land Nehru Award" from Soviet Russia in 1973 In 1998, he received a Padma Shri award from the Government of India for excellence in Literature & Education. 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. In 1999, He was conferred Kabir Sammanin by the state government of Madhya Pradesh. Narayan Surve was a Convener of the Marathi Advisory Board of Sahitya Akademi. He presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Parbhani in 1995.
