Shanta Gokhale is a celebrated Mumbai-based bi-lingual journalist, fiction and non-fiction writer, playwright, script-writer and translator. 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.