Dattatraya Bhikaji Kulkarni (25 July 1934 – 27 January 2016) was an Indian Marathi writer, critic, university professor and freelance writer from Maharashtra.
He was born in Nagpur on 25 July 1934.
[1] He was head of department of Marathi at the Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, of which he was also an alumni.
[2] He was the president of the 83rd Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan, held in March 2010 in Pune.
[3] Kulkarni died after a brief illness in Pune, on 27 January 2016, at the age of 81.