Vilas Salunke is a retired Professor of English and literary translator from Nashik, Maharashtra. He holds a Ph.D. on Robert Frost s poetry. He has published several research articles in reputed journals on modern British and American poets and authors.

On a Cambridge University scholarship, he studied at Cambridge, U.K. in l993. Of late, he has been an active translator of Marathi poetry and fiction into the English.

His published works are Blooms of the Earth (Writers Workshop, Kolkata, 1999), a selection of poems in English translation by Kusumagraj, a Gwyneth Award-winning litterateur.

He is now busy translating a contemporary Marathi novel into the English. Vilas can be contacted at [email protected].