Madhukar Dattatreya Hatakananglekar (1 February 1927 - January 2015) was a Marathi literary critic from Maharashtra, India.
[1] He was born on February 1, 1927, in the town of in Hatakananagle in Kolhapur district.
In 1975, Maharashtra state government recognized him as an "ideal college teacher."
Hatakananglekar wrote 15 literary critical books in either Marathi or English.
Hatakananglekar presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelanat Sangli in 2008, at a relatively advanced age of 81.