Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar (December 28, 1900 – November 27, 1976) was a Marathi novelist and a literary critic from Maharashtra, India.
His father, a Marathi Brahmin priest who was financially well-off, brought up Madkholkar in a strict, highly orthodox Hindu environment.
At his age 18, Madkholkar failed in the high school matriculation examination, and abandoned his formal studies.
His first four articles concerned Sinn Féin movement in Ireland; they got published in the reputed Kesari (केसरी) newspaper.
He also wrote ten critical books, twelve novels, six one-act plays, two collections of his short stories, and a few poems.