Shivaji Sawant died of massive cardiac arrest in Goa while on the campaign tour for President of 76th 'All India Marathi Sahitya Sammelan'. He was president of Baroda Sahitya Sammelan in 1983. He held the post of the vice-president of Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad since 1995. In 1980 he wrote a book Chhava based on Sambhaji's life.
This book was translated in Hindi (1974), English (1989), Kannada (1990), Gujarati (1991), Malayalam (1995) and received numerous awards and accolades. After extensive research he wrote a book Mrityunjay (English: Triumph Over Death) based on Karna, one of the leading characters of the epic Mahabharat. He worked with Rajaram Prashala, Kolhapur as a teacher for 20 years and afterwords as editor with Maharashtra education department's monthly magazine Lokshikshan for six years in Pune (1974 1980). He was born in a small farmer family of Aajra village in Kolhapur district.
The author depicts a mysterious similarity between Krishna and Karna, trying to change the reader’s perspective of Karna’s sins. Four of these depict Karna's point of view, mixed with the viewpoints of Kunti, Duryodhana, Shatruntapa, Vrishali and Krishna. This book contains six dramatic soliloquies to form nine parts. This book is a study of humanity, life and existentialism through the Mahabharata. Mrityunjaya is the autobiography of Karna in which the author provides a deep exploration of Karna’s life, who is often reduced to an antagonist in most modern renditions of the Mahabharata. In Mrityunjaya, contemporary Marathi novelist, Shivaji Sawant investigates the meaning of life through the personae of the Mahabharata protagonists.
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