Vishnu Khare

{{short description|Indian poet, translator and critic}}

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| birth_date = February 9, 1940

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| death_place = New Delhi, India

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Vishnu Khare (9 February 1940 – 19 September 2018) was an Indian Hindi poet, translator, literary and film critic, journalist and scriptwriter.{{cite web|url=http://www.lit-across-frontiers.org/profiles/vishnu-khare/ |title=Vishnu Khare - Literature Across Frontiers |publisher=Lit-across-frontiers.org |date= |accessdate=2015-04-17}} He wrote both in Hindi and English. He taught English literature at university level, served as the Programme Secretary of Sahitya Akademi, the National Academy of Letters in India and was editor of the Hindi daily Navbharat Times" in Lucknow, Jaipur and New Delhi.{{cite web|url=http://headread.ee/2014/?page_id=1327&lang=en |title=HeadRead / Vishnu Khare |publisher=Headread.ee |date= |accessdate=2015-04-17}}

Vishnu Khare died on 19 September 2018 due to a brain haemorrhage in New Delhi.{{Cite web |url=https://www.aajtak.intoday.in/lite/story/journalist-and-poet-vishnu-khare-passes-away-tedu-1-1029716.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919144804/https://aajtak.intoday.in/lite/story/journalist-and-poet-vishnu-khare-passes-away-tedu-1-1029716.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 19, 2018 |title=Unknown }}