Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (All India Marathi Literary Conference) is an annual conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra State. The first Marathi Sahitya Sammelan was held in Pune in 1878 under the chairmanship of Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade.
Conferences held Following is the list of the conferences with year and venue: Edition Year Location President 1st 1878 Pune Mahadev Govind Ranade - 1879–1884 No Conference 2nd 1885 Pune Krushna Shastri Rajwade 1886–1904 No Conference 3rd 1905 Satara Raghunath Pandurang Karandikar 4th 1906 Pune Govind Vaman Kanitkar 5th 1907 Pune Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani 6th 1908 Pune Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya 7th 1909 Vadodara Kanhoba Ranchhodadas Kirtikar - 1910–1911 No Conference 8th 1912 Akola Hari Narayan Apte - 1913–1914 No Conference 9th 1915 Mumbai Gangadhar Patwardhan - 1916 No Conference 10th 1917 Indore Ganesh Janardan Agashe - 1918–1920 No Conference 11th 1921 Vadodara Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar - 1922–1925 No Conference 12th 1926 Mumbai Madhav Vinayak Kibe 13th 1927 Pune Shripad Krushna Kolhatkar 14th 1928 Gwalior Madhav Shrihari Aney 15th 1929 Belgaum Shivram Mahadev Paranjape 16th 1930 Margao Vaman Malhar Joshi 17th 1931 Hyderabad Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar 18th 1932 Kolhapur Sayajirao Gaekwad III 19th 1933 Nagpur Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar 20th 1934 Vadodara Narayan Govind Chapekar 21st 1935 Indore Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi 22nd 1936 Jalgaon Madhav Trimbak Patwardhan - 1937 No Conference 23rd 1938 Mumbai Vinayak Damodar Savarkar 24th 1939 Ahmednagar Datto Vaman Potdar 25th 1940 Ratnagiri Narayan Sitaram Phadke 26th 1941 Solapur Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar 27th 1942 Nashik Pralhad Keshav Atre 28th 1943 Sangli Shripad Mahadev Mate 29th 1944 Dhule Bhargavaram Vitthal Warerkar - 1945 No Conference 30th 1946 Belgaum Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar 31st 1947 Hyderabad Narahar Raghunath Phatak - 1948 No Conference 32nd 1949 Pune Shankar Dattatraya Javdekar 33rd 1950 Mumbai Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar 34th 1951 Karwar Anant Priolkar 35th 1952 Amalner Krushnaji Pandurang Kulkarni 36th 1953 Ahmedabad Viththal Dattatreya Ghate 37th 1954 Delhi Lakshman Shastri Joshi 38th 1955 Pandharpur Shankar Damodar Pendse - 1956 No Conference 39th 1957 Aurangabad Anant Atmaram Kanekar 40th 1958 Malvan Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande 41st 1959 Miraj Shrikrushna Keshav Kshirsagar 42nd 1960 Thane Ramchandra Shripad Jog 43rd 1961 Gwalior Kusumavati Deshpande 44th 1962 Satara Narhar Vishnu Gadgil - 1963 No Conference 45th 1964 Margao Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar 46th 1965 Hyderabad Waman Lakshman Kulkarni - 1966 No Conference 47th 1967 Bhopal Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte - 1968 No Conference 48th 1969 Wardha Purushottam Shivaram Rege - 1970–1972 No Conference 49th 1973 Yavatmal Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar 50th 1974 Ichalkaranji Purushottam Laxman Deshpande 51st 1975 Karad Durga Bhagwat - 1976 No Conference 52nd 1977 Pune Purushottam Bhaskar Bhave - 1978 No Conference 53rd 1979 Chandrapur Vaman Krushna Chorghade 54th 1980 Barshi Gangadhar Balkrushna Sardar 55th 1981(February) Akola Gopal Nilkanth Dandekar 56th 1981(December) Raipur Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil 57th 1983 Ambejogai Vyankatesh Madgulkar 58th 1984 Jalgaon Shankarrao Kharat 59th 1985 Nanded Shankar Babaji Patil 60th 1986 Mumbai Vishram Bedekar - 1987 No Conference 61st 1988 Thane Vasant Kanetkar 62nd 1989 Amravati Keshav Jagannath Purohit 63rd 1990(January) Pune Yusufkhan Mohamadkhan Pathan 64th 1990(December) Ratnagiri Madhu Mangesh Karnik 65th 1992 Kolhapur Ramesh Mantri 66th 1993 Satara Vidyadhar Gokhale 67th 1994 Panaji Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar 68th 1995 Parbhani Narayan Gangaram Surve 69th 1996 Alandi Shanta Shelke 70th 1997 Ahmednagar Nagnath S. Inamdar 71st 1998 Parali Vaijnath Dattaram Maruti Mirasdar 72nd 1999 Mumbai Vasant Bapat 73rd 2000 Belgaum Yashawant Dinkar Phadke 74th 2001 Indore Vijaya Rajadhyaksha 75th 2002 Pune Rajendra Banhatti 76th 2003 Karad Subhash Bhende 77th 2004 Aurangabad R. G. Jadhav 78th 2005 Nashik Keshav Tanaji Meshram 79th 2006 Solapur Maruti Chitampalli 80th 2007 Nagpur Arun Sadhu 81st 2008 Sangli Madhukar Dattatreya Hatakananglekar 82nd 2009 Mahabaleshwar Anand Ratan Yadav 83rd 2010 Pune Dattatraya Bhikaji Kulkarni 84th 2011 Thane Uttam Kamble 85th 2012 Chandrapur Vasant Abaji Dahake 86th 2013 Chiplun Nagnath Lalujirao Kottapalle 87th 2014 Saswad F. M. Shinde 88th 2015 Ghuman, Punjab Sadanand More 89th 2016 Pimpri-Chinchwad Dr. Shripal Sabnis 90th 2017 Dombivli Akshaykumar Kale 91st 2018 Baroda Lakshmikant Deshmukh 92nd 2019 Yavatmal Aruna Ramchandra Dhere 93rd 2020 Osmanabad Francis D'Britto 94th 2021 Nashik Jayant Narlikar 95th 2022 Udgir Bharat Sasane96th 2023 Wardha Justice (Retd.) Narendra Chapalgaokar97th2024AmalnerRavindra Shobhane98th2025DelhiDr Tara Bhawalkar99th2026SataraVishwas Patil
Women presidents Only six women have been the presidents of the Sammelan to date: Year Location President 1961 Gwalior Kusumavati Deshpande 1975 Karad Durga Bhagwat 1996 Alandi Shanta Shelke 2001 Indore Vijaya Rajadhyaksha 2019 Yavatmal Aruna Ramchandra Dhere 2025 Delhi Dr. Tara Bhavalkar
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