Vishwas Patil is one of the most acclaimed and highest selling Marathi writers today. He has written iconic novels like Mahanayak, Chandramukhi, Pangira, Zadazadati, Panipat, Sambhaji, Nagkeshar and Lust for Lalbaug. He has received the Priyadarshini National Award, the Vikhe Patil Award and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Zadazadati and the Gadkari Award for Mahanayak. Panipat has received thirty- eight awards since its publication in 1988 and was released as an English translation by Westland. Nagkeshar was made into a television serial. In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious Dr Indira Goswami (Mamoni Raisom Goswami) National Literature Award. English translations of three of his novels (Mahanayak, Panipat and Sambhaji) were published by Westland Publications Private Limited and will be published by Westland Books (Pratilipi) in September 2022. Panipat and Sambhaji have sold over 100,000 copies in Marathi.
