Shanta Gokhale is a celebrated Mumbai-based journalist, bilingual fiction and non-fiction writer, playwright, scriptwriter and translator in English and Marathi. She has won numerous awards for her work. These include Maharashtra State awards for her Marathi novels, the Sangeet Natak Akademi award for her contribution to the performing arts, the Sahitya Akademi award for translation, and several lifetime achievement awards including from Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest, META and Crossword.