Raghunath Vaman Dighe (1896 - 5 July 1980) was a Marathi

Marathi people

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 writer from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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, India

India

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. He wrote notable novels pertaining to rural life in Maharashtra.

Dighe started his professional career as a lawyer in Pune

Pune

Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

, but later moved to the nearby small town of Khopoli

Khopoli

Khopoli is an industrial town in the Khalapur taluka of Raigad district, in the Indian state of Maharashtra, at the base of the Sahyadri mountains. Patalganga River which is the tailrace channel of Tata Hydroelectric Power station flows through Khopoli....

and switched to full-time writing.

Novels

• Pankala (पाणकळा) (1939)
• Sarai (सराई) (1943)
• Poortata (पूर्तता) (1944)
• Nisargakanya Ranjai (निसर्गकन्या रानजाई) (1946)
• Ganlubdha Mruganayana (गानलुब्धा मृगनयना) (1947)
• Pad Re Panya (पड रे पाण्या) (1948)
• Aai Ahe Shetat (आई आहे शेतात)
• Kartiki (कार्तिकी)
• Sonaki (सोनकी)
• Ramya Ratri (रम्य रात्री)

A 1974 movie Kartiki (कार्तिकी) was made as based on the novel with the same name.

Dighe was a script writer of the movie Madhosh.