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:[1][2]

Edition Year Location President
1st 1878 Pune Mahadev Govind Ranade[3]
- 1879–1884 No Conference
2nd 1885 Pune Krushna Shastri Rajwade[3]
1886–1904 No Conference
3rd 1905 Satara Raghunath Pandurang Karandikar[3]
4th 1906 Pune Govind Vaman Kanitkar[3]
5th 1907 Pune Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani[3]
6th 1908 Pune Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya[3]
7th 1909 Baroda Kanhoba Ranchhodadas Kirtikar[3]
- 1910–1911 No Conference
8th 1912 Akola Hari Narayan Apte[4][3]
- 1913–1914 No Conference
9th 1915 Mumbai Gangadhar Patwardhan[3]
- 1916 No Conference
10th 1917 Indore Ganesh Janardan Agashe
- 1918–1920 No Conference
11th 1921 Baroda 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 Gayakwad
19th 1933 Nagpur Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar
20th 1934 Baroda 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[5]
24th 1939 Ahmednagar Datto Vaman Potdar
25th 1940 Ratnagiri Narayan Sitaram Phadke
26th 1941 Solapur Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
27th 1942 Nashik Prahlad Keshav Atre
28th 1943 Sangli Shripad Mahadev Mate
29th 1944 Dhule Bhargavaram Viththal Varerkar
- 1945 No Conference
30th 1946 Belgaum Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar
31st 1947 Hyderabad Narahar Raghunath Phatak
- 1948 No Conference
32nd 1949 Pune Shankar Dattatraya Javdekar io
33rd 1950 Mumbai Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar
34th 1951 Karwar Anant Kakba Priyolkar
35th 1952 Amalner Krushnaji Pandurang Kulkarni
36th 1953 Ahmedabad Viththal Dattatreya Ghate
37th 1954 Delhi Laxmanshastri Balaji 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 Narahar 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 Shivram Rege
- 1970–1972 No Conference
49th 1973 Yavatmal Gajanan Digambar Madgulkar
50st 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[6]
56th 1981
(December)		 Raipur Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil
57th 1983 Ambejogai Vyankatesh Digambar Madgulkar
58th 1984 Jalgaon Shankar Ramchandra Kharat
59th 1985 Nanded Shankar Babaji Patil
60th 1986 Mumbai Vishram Bedekar[6]
- 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[6][7]
68th 1995 Parbhani Narayan Gangaram Surve
69th 1996 Alandi Shanta Shelke[8]
70st 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[6]
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[9]
86th 2013 Chiplun Nagnath Kottapalle[10]
87th 2014 Saswad F. M. Shinde[11][12]
88th 2015 Ghuman, Punjab Dr. Sadanand More[13][14][15][16][17][18]
89th 2016 Pimpri-Chinchwad Dr. Shripal Sabnis [19]
90th 2017 Dombivli Dr. Akshaykumar Kale[20][21][22]
91st 2018 Baroda[23][24] Lakshmikant Deshmukh[25]
92nd 2019 Yavatmal[26] Aruna Ramchandra Dhere[27]
93rd 2020 Osmanabad Francis D'Britto[28]
94th 2021 Nashik Jayant Narlikar[29]
95th 2022 Udgir Bharat Sasane[30]
96th 2023 Wardha Justice (Retd.) Narendra Chapalgaokar[31]

Women presidents

Only five women have been the presidents of the Sammelan to date:

Year Location President
1961 Gwalior Kusumavati Deshpande[6]
1975 Karad Durga Bhagwat[6]
1996 Alandi Shanta Shelke[6]
2001 Indore Vijaya Rajadhyaksha[6]
2019 Yavatmal Aruna Ramchandra Dhere[27]

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