Anand YadavAnand Ratan Yadav was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India. He is best known for his autobiography Zombi.Literary workYadav was one of the early writers of Marathi Gramin Sahitya. His novel "Zombi" won a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1990. The novel is an autobiographical story of a young boy, his loving mother, his life of utter poverty, and his eagerness to receive education. Yadav wrote three sequels to autobiographical Zombi, Nangarani, Gharabhinti, and Kachawel . The famous Marathi movie Natarang is based on Yadav's novel Natarang. The lesson Gaavachi Sanskruti he Gaavache Vyaktimatva in Marathi textbook of Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education is taken from his82nd Marathi Sahitya SammelanYadav was elected as the president of the 82nd Marathi Sahitya Sammelan which was held at Mahabaleshwar in March 2009. However, he resigned from that position four days before the sammelan in response to protests primarily by members of the varkari mahamandal against some of the material in his biographical novel Santasurya Tukaram. The mahamandal members had demanded his resignation with a warning that they would disrupt the sammelan if their demand was not met.