Hemant Divate is a Marathi poet, editor, publisher, translator and poetry activist. He is the author of eight poetry collections in Marathi. His most recent book in Marathi is 'Paranoia' which won the Government of Maharashtra’s Kavi Keshavsut Award. Divate’s poems have been translated into more than 30 international languages.
In translation, he has a book in Spanish, Irish, Arabic, German, Estonian and Kannada apart from four in English. His poems figure in numerous anthologies in Marathi, English and Slovenian. Divate is credited with changing the Marathi literary scene through his magazine AbhidhaNantar and the Indian English poetry scene through his imprint Poetrywala.