Anant Nag

Anant Nagarkatte (born 4 September 1948) popularly known as Anant Nag, is an actor from Karnataka, India. He is considered one of Kannada cinema's finest actors. As a result, he is popularly known as an actor with no-failures, by critics. In addition to Kannada movies, he has acted in Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi movies. He has also acted in Malgudi Days, directed by his younger brother Shankar Nag based on the stories by R. K. Narayan.

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Kota Shivaram Karanth was a Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, film maker and thinker. He was described as the "Rabindranath Tagore of Modern India who has been one of the finest novelists-activists since independence"by Ramachandra Guha. He was the third person among eight recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada the highest literary honour conferred by the Govt. of India.

Shivaram Karanth was born on 10 October 1902, in Kota near Udupi in the Udupi district of Karnataka to a Kannada family.He was influenced by Gandhi's principles and took part in Indian Independence movement while he was in college. He did not complete his education and went to participate in the Non-cooperation movement and canvassed for
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Ravi Belagere

Ravi Belagere was a writer and journalist based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He was the editor of Kannada language tabloid Hi Bangalore,which he founded along with R. T. Vittalamurthy, Ra. Somanath, Jogi, and I. H. Sangam Dev. He used to run a show called Crime Diary, which used to air on a regional Kannada-language channel ETV Kannada, that focused on crime in Karnataka, and he started Prarthana, a school for children in Bangalore.
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Yashwant Chittal

Yashwant Vithoba Chittal was a Kannada fiction writer born in Hanehalli, Uttara Kannada District

He completed his primary school education from his village school and his high school from the Gibbs High School, Kumta (1944).Later he did his Bachelors in science and Bachelors in technology both from Bombay University being a top ranker and gold medalist in the year 1955 and master's degree in chemical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, United States, and simultaneously pursued a career in science and technology along with literature. His contributions in the field of Polymer Science and synthetic resins was well recognized and he was selected as Fellow of Plastics and Rubber Institute, London.

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S.L. Bhyrappa

Dr S.L. Bhyrappa is a litterateur par excellence. He writes in the south Indian language, Kannada, and has been the bestselling novelist for over 25 years now. His novels are widely translated to pan Indian languages. He is the bestselling novelist in Marathi over the past decade and is among the top-five bestselling authors in Hindi. He is a conscious artist that depicts fundamental human emotions in his novels. In addition to his profound knowledge of Indian philosophical and cultural traditions, Professor Bhyrappa has since his childhood had intense personal experiences in both rural and urban milieu. Consequently, his characters are deeply rooted in Indian soil. Seminars have been and are being held on his novels, and volumes of literar
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S.L. Bhyrappa

Dr S.L. Bhyrappa is a litterateur par excellence. He writes in the south Indian language, Kannada, and has been the bestselling novelist for over 25 years now. His novels are widely translated to pan Indian languages. He is the bestselling novelist in Marathi over the past decade and is among the top-five bestselling authors in Hindi. He is a conscious artist that depicts fundamental human emotions in his novels. In addition to his profound knowledge of Indian philosophical and cultural traditions, Professor Bhyrappa has since his childhood had intense personal experiences in both rural and urban milieu. Consequently, his characters are deeply rooted in Indian soil. Seminars have been and are being held on his novels, and volumes of literar
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Kota Shivarama Karanth

Kota Shivaram Karanth was a Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, film maker and thinker. He was described as the "Rabindranath Tagore of Modern India who has been one of the finest novelists-activists since independence"by Ramachandra Guha. He was the third person among eight recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada the highest literary honour conferred by the Govt. of India.

Shivaram Karanth was born on 10 October 1902, in Kota near Udupi in the Udupi district of Karnataka to a Kannada family.He was influenced by Gandhi's principles and took part in Indian Independence movement while he was in college. He did not complete his education and went to participate in the Non-cooperation movement and canvassed for
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Kuvempu

Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa widely known by the pen name Kuvempu was a Kannada writer and poet, widely regarded as the greatest poet of 20th century Kannada literature. He is immortalised by some of his phrases, and in particular for his contribution to Universal Humanism or in his own words Vishwa maanavataa Vaada. He has penned the Karnataka State anthem Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate.

He has written several Poems, stories and plays. His work Sri Ramayana Darshanam, the rewriting of the great ancient Indian epic Ramayana in modern Kannada, is regarded as revival of the era of Mahakavya (Epic poetry) in a contemporary form and charm.

He has received several awards for his works in the field of literature such as, Jnanpith Award, Sahitya Akad
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K.P. Poornachandra Tejaswi

K.P. Purnachandra Tejaswi was a prominent Kannada writer, novelist, photographer, ornithologist, publisher, painter and environmentalist. He made a great impression in the "Navya" period of Kannada literature and and inaugurated the bandaya sahitya.

Tejaswi was born on September 8, 1938. His father is the famous poet, Rashtrakavi Kuvempu. He completed his education in Mysore. Tejaswi has written in almost all forms of literature including poems, short stories, novels, travel literature, plays and science fiction. He has translated several English books to Kannada. His famous translations include the series on Kenneth Anderson's hunting expeditions and Henri Charrière's Papillon.

He has won several awards for his contribution to literature su
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Ravi Belagere

Ravi Belagere was a writer and journalist based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He was the editor of Kannada language tabloid Hi Bangalore,which he founded along with R. T. Vittalamurthy, Ra. Somanath, Jogi, and I. H. Sangam Dev. He used to run a show called Crime Diary, which used to air on a regional Kannada-language channel ETV Kannada, that focused on crime in Karnataka, and he started Prarthana, a school for children in Bangalore.
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K.N. Ganeshaiah

Dr. K.N. Ganeshaiah is an agricultural scientist and professor at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. He is also a novelist specializing in thrillers, and writes in the Kannada language.

Education:
Ph. D. University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India, l983
M.Sc. (Agri.) in Genetics & Plant Breeding, UAS, Bangalore, l979
B.Sc (Agri.), University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, l976.

Prof Ganeshaiah has pioneered a new style of writing novels and short stories in Kannada that seamlessly mixes facts and fiction in the form of thrillers. Through this style, his writings have captured a new generation of readers in Kannada contributing to the growth of story writing in Kannada.

Though an agriculture scientist, his novels a
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ಎ. ಆರ್‌. ಮಣಿಕಾಂತ್ | A.R. Manikanth

ಪತ್ರಕರ್ತ, ಬರಹಗಾರರಾಗಿರುವ ಮಣಿಕಾಂತ್ ಅವರು ಮೂಲತಃ ಮಂಡ್ಯ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ನಾಗಮಂಗಲ ತಾಲ್ಲೂಕಿನ ಆಯತನಹಳ್ಳಿಯವರು. ಆಟೋ ಮೊಬೈಲ್ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರಿಂಗ್ ಪದವಿ ಪಡೆದಿರುವ ಇವರು ವಿಜಯ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ, ಹಾಯ್ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು, ಸಂಯುಕ್ತ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾರ್ಯ ನಿರ್ವಹಿಸಿರುವ ಇವರು ಈ ಗುಲಾಬಿಯು ನಿನಗಾಗಿ, ಮರೆಯಲಿ ಹ್ಯಾಂಗ, ಉಭಯ ಕುಶಲೋಪರಿ ಸಾಂಪ್ರತ, ಹಾಡು ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ ಸಮಯ ಎಂಬ ಅಂಕಣಗಳನ್ನು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
ಇವರ ಬರೆದಿರುವ ಕೃತಿಗಳೆಂದರೆ ಅಮ್ಮ ಹೇಳಿದ ಎಂಟು ಸುಳ್ಳುಗಳು, ಹಾಡು ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ ಸಮಯ, ಅಪ್ಪ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಆಕಾಶ, ಭಾವ ತೀರ ಯಾನ, ಮನಸು ಮಾತಾಡಿತು ಮುಂತಾದವು. ಇವರ ಅಮ್ಮ ಹೇಳಿದ ಎಂಟು ಸುಳ್ಳುಗಳು ಕೃತಿಗೆ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಅಕಾಡೆಮಿ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ, ಅವ್ವ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ದೊರಕಿದೆ.
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Yashwant Chittal

Yashwant Vithoba Chittal was a Kannada fiction writer born in Hanehalli, Uttara Kannada District

He completed his primary school education from his village school and his high school from the Gibbs High School, Kumta (1944).Later he did his Bachelors in science and Bachelors in technology both from Bombay University being a top ranker and gold medalist in the year 1955 and master's degree in chemical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, United States, and simultaneously pursued a career in science and technology along with literature. His contributions in the field of Polymer Science and synthetic resins was well recognized and he was selected as Fellow of Plastics and Rubber Institute, London.

He is well know for his short stori
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Manohar Malgonkar

Manohar Malgonkar was an Indian author in the English language of both fiction and nonfiction.

Malgonkar was born in a royal family, and educated at Bombay University. He was an officer in the Maratha Light Infantry, a big game hunter, a civil servant, a mine owner and a farmer, and he also stood for parliament. Most of that activity was during the build up to Indian independence and its aftermath, often the settings for his works. The socio-historical milieu of those times form the backdrop of his novels, which are usually of action and adventure. He also wrote non-fiction, including biography and history.

Malgonkar lived in a remote bungalow, at some distance from the town of Belgaum, Karnataka. His only child Sunita (educated at the famous
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