Dattatreya Raghunath Kavthekar (1901 – 1979) was a Marathi novelist from Maharashtra, India.
He lost both of his parents at an early age.
After his high school education, he joined the Indian Army then under the British Raj.
For some time, Nagpur University had included study of Kavthekar's fictions in its Master of Arts curriculum.
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