P L Deshpande is one of the best author in Marathi literature. For me the best part of learning Marathi, is reading his literature. When reading his book, you will be rolling on the floor while laughing and then suddenly he will touch your heart such a way that you start crying. What a roller coaster ride !

His real potential was observing individual's traits/characterstics and waving story around them. Sadly I belive it is very very difficult to translate his work as there are lot of cultural references in his writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purushottam_Laxman_Deshpande

If you do learn it, you might enjoy reading the poetry of Madhav Julian. He was a real lover of Marathi, but also brought into his work Pharsi and English elements which might be familiar to you.