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Vilas Sarang (Devanagari: विलास सारंग) (11 June 1942 – 14 April 2015) was a modernist Indian writer, critic, translator and a professor of English who wrote in Marathi and English. He died in 2015 in Mahim's Hinduja hospital.
Sarang was born in Karwar, Karnataka in the Bhandari caste. He earned his undergraduate degree from Elphinstone College, Mumbai and Ph.D. from Bombay University. He obtained a second Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University in 1974.[1] Sarang's stories have appeared in the UK, US, Canada and India in journals such as Encounter, The London Magazine, TriQuarterly, The Malahat Review, and also in the anthologies New Writing in India (Penguin), The Penguin Book of Horror Stories and New Directions No. 41.[2] His first book of short stories, Soledad' was published in 1975 in Marathi. In 1978, his English poetry collection, 'A Kind of Silence' was published.[3] His published books in English include a collection of stories, Fair Tree of the Void (translated from Marathi in 1990), and two novels, In the Land of Enki and The Dinosaurship (2005).[4] His short stories have been translated into French and German.[5]
His Marathi book 'सर्जनशोध आणि लिहिता लेखक' (Pursuit of Creation and Author Engaged in Writing) received an award of Government of Maharashtra in year 2008.[6]
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