Karanam Pavan Prasad
Karanam Pavan Prasad, a Kannada novelist and playwright from Bangalore, is celebrated for his distinctive storytelling that combines new-age perspectives with themes of urban ecology, identity, and faith. Transitioning from a successful theater career, he gained widespread acclaim with novels like Karma, Nunni, Grastha, Rayakonda, and Sattu, each exploring complex societal and philosophical themes. solidifying his place as a prominent voice in contemporary Kannada literature.
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‘ಇಂತಿ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಆತ್ಮೀಯ’ ಎಂಬ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯು ಇವರ ಎರಡನೆಯ ಪ್ರಕಟಿತ ಕೃತಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದು ಎರಡನೇ ಮುದ್ರಣವನ್ನು ಕಂಡಿದೆ. ಈ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯು ‘ಬಹ್ರೇನ್ ಕನ್ನಡ ಡಿಂಡಿಮ’ ಸಮಾರಂಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನಗೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಗ್ರಿಫಿನ್ಸ್ ಗುರುಕುಲ ಎಂಬ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗೆ ಬಿಸಿನೆಸ್ ಕುರಿತಾದ ‘ಬಿಸಿನೆಸ್ ಮತ್ತು ನಾನು’ ಹಾಗೂ ‘ಬಿಸಿನೆಸ್ ಚಾಣಕ್ಯ’ ಎಂಬ ಪುಸ್ತಕಗಳನ್ನು ನಿರೂಪಣೆ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಇವರು ‘ದಾನವ’ ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ಹಲವಾರು ಚಿತ್ರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸಹಾಯಕ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರಾಗಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದು, ‘ಆಟೋಶಂಕ್ರಿ’ ಎಂಬ ಕಿರುಚಿತ್ರವನ್ನು ನಿರ್ದೇಶಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
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M.R. Dattathri
M. R. Dattathri is a bilingual novelist, poet, translator, and columnist from Bengaluru, India.
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After spending three decades as a senior IT professional in India and the US, he transitioned full-time to literature, publishing in both Kannada and English.
His fiction blends incisive social observation with a global outlook shaped by years spent on two continents. Dattathri’s novels have earned many of Karnataka’s highest honours, including the Masti Prashasti (2019), Book Brahma Novel of the Year (2023), Vardhamana Prashasti (2023), and the Sunanda Belgaokar Award (2024). Two of his books have appeared in Telugu, and his latest English book—What’s Your Price, Mr Shivaswamy?—was released by Penguin Random House India in April 2025.
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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.
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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 -
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.
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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.
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Jayant Kaikini
Jayanth Kaikini is an Indian poet, short stories author and a lyricist working in Kannada cinema. ಜಯಂತ ಗೌರೀಶ ಕಾಯ್ಕಿಣಿ(ಜನನ : ೨೪,ಜನವರಿ, ೧೯೫೫) ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸಮಕಾಲೀನ ಕಥೆಗಾರರಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಮುಖರು. ಜಯಂತ್ ರ ಕತೆ-ಕಾವ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮಸಂವೇದನೆ ಬಹುತೇಕ ಕಾಣಸಿಗುವ ವಸ್ತು.ಇಳಿಸಂಜೆಯ ಬಿಸಿಲು,ಬಿಸಿಲುಕೋಲು,ಪಾತರಗಿತ್ತಿ,ಬಣ್ಣ ಅವರ ಬರಹಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಪ್ರತಿಫಲಿಸುತ್ತಲೇ ಇರುತ್ತವೆ. ಮೆದುಮಾತಿನ,ಮೆಲುದನಿಯ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿತ್ವ ಅವರದು.[೩] ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಪ್ರಕಾರಗಳ ಹಲವು ವಿಭಾಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿ, ಕವಿಯಾಗಿ, ಈಟಿವಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಾಹಿನಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಸಂದರ್ಶಕನಾಗಿ, ಸಿನೆಮಾ ಹಾಡುಗಳ ಸಾಹಿತಿ,ಸಂಭಾಷಣೆಗಾರನಾಗಿ, ಅಂಕಣಕಾರ ನಾಗಿ, ನಾಟಕಕಾರನಾಗಿ, ಕಥೆಗಾರನಾಗಿ, ಮತ್ತು ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರ (ಸಾಗರದಾಚೆಗೂ ನೆಲೆ ನಿಂತಿರುವ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರ) ಅಚ್ಚುಮೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಲೇಖಕರಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
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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.
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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.
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Srikrishna Alanahalli
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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.
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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.
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Vasudhendra
Vasudhendra (ವಸುಧೇಂದ್ರ) was born at Sandur in Ballari district, Karnataka. After working as a software professional for more than twenty years, Vasudhendra now runs his own publication house, Chanda Pustaka, which publishes and encourages new writing in Kannada and has instituted the Chanda Pustaka Award which recognizes young short story writers. He is also associated with local support groups for LGBT individuals. The author of thirteen books in Kannada, that have sold over 80,000 copies, Vasudhendra has won many literary awards, including the Kannada Sahitya Academy Book Prize, the Da Raa Bendre Story Award and the Dr U.R. Ananthamurthy Award.
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Yashwant Chittal
Yashwant Vithoba Chittal was a Kannada fiction writer born in Hanehalli, Uttara Kannada District
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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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ಜೋಗಿ | Jogi
Jogi Girish Rao Hatwar
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ಹುಟ್ಟೂರು ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸುರತ್ಕಲ್ ಸಮೀಪದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಹೊಸಬೆಟ್ಟು. ಹತ್ವಾರ್ ಮನೆತನಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿದ ಜೋಗಿ ಓದಿದ್ದು ಗುರುವಾಯನಕೆರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಉಪ್ಪಿನಂಗಡಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ. ತಂದೆ ಶ್ರೀಧರರಾವ್ ಕೃಷಿಕರು. ತಾಯಿ ಶಾರದೆ. ಹಿರಿಯ ಸೋದರ ಹತ್ವಾರ ನಾರಾಯಣ ರಾವ್ ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ ಪ್ರಸಂಗಗಳನ್ನು ಬರೆದು, ತಾಳಮದ್ದಲೆ ಅರ್ಥಧಾರಿಯಾಗಿ, ಲೇಖಕರಾಗಿ ಪ್ರಸಿದ್ಧರು. ೧೮ನೇ ವಯಸ್ಸಿಗೆ ಬರಹ ಆರಂಭಿಸಿದ ಜೋಗಿ ಓದಿದ್ದು ಬಿ.ಕಾಂ. ಕಾಲೇಜು ದಿನಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅವರ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಆಸಕ್ತಿಯನ್ನು ರೂಪಿಸಿದವರು ಬಳ್ಳ ವೆಂಕಟರಮಣ. ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿಗೆ ೧೯೮೯ರಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾಲಿಟ್ಟ ಗಿರೀಶ ರಾವ್ ಹತ್ವಾರ್ ಅವರನ್ನು ಜೋಗಿಯಾಗಿ ರೂಪಿಸಿದವರು ವೈಎನ್ ಕೆ. ಸದ್ಯ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಲ್ಲಿ ನೆಲೆನಿಂತಿರುವ ಜೋಗಿ ಪತ್ನಿ ಜ್ಯೋತಿ, ಮಗಳು ಖುಷಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಜೀವಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
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Μαρία Ιορδανίδου
Maria Iordanidou
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Γεννήθηκε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη το 1897 και έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στον Πειραιά και το Βατούμ της Ρωσίας. Φοίτησε σε ρωσικό γυμνάσιο, στη Σταυρούπολη, όπου τη βρήκε η Οκτωβριανή Επανάσταση. Το 1919 γύρισε στην Κωνσταντινούπολη και λίγο αργότερα πήγε στην Αλεξάνδρεια, όπου παντρεύτηκε τον Ιορδάνη Ιορδανίδη. Το 1923 επέστρεψαν μαζί στην Αθήνα, αλλά σύντομα ο Ιορδανίδης έφυγε.
Εξαιτίας των συνθηκών της ζωής της, η Ιορδανίδου απέκτησε μεγάλη γλωσσομάθεια και εργάστηκε ως ιδιωτική υπάλληλος. Έγινε γνωστή στο λογοτεχνικό χώρο με το έργο Λωξάντρα, που έγραψε σε ηλικία 65 χρονών, το 1962, και γνώρισε πολλές επανεκδόσεις. Η Λωξάντρα περιγράφει με μεγάλη ζωντάνια και χιούμορ τα έθιμα και τη ζωή των Ελλήνων της Πόλης και βασίζεται -
Manohar Malgonkar
Manohar Malgonkar was an Indian author in the English language of both fiction and nonfiction.
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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 -
B.G.L. Swamy
Bengaluru Gundappa Lakshminarayana Swamy also known as B. G. L. Swamy and (Kannada: ಬಿ ಜಿ ಎಲ್ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ), was an Indian botanist and Kannada writer who served as professor and head of the department of Botany and as Principal of Presidency College, Chennai. He was the son of D. V. Gundappa (Kannada: ಡಿ.ವಿ. ಗುಂಡಪ್ಪ), an Indian writer and philosopher.
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Swamy's literary works encompass a large range of topics. A large number of them are related to botany, and introduce botanical concepts to the layperson. A few of his books cover common plants used in everyday life in a scientific manner
Other works by Swamy pertain to literature, and some are partially autobiographical, dealing with his experiences as professor and principal. Apart from being an a -
ಗುರುರಾಜ ಕೊಡ್ಕಣಿ | Gururaja Kodkini
ಗುರುರಾಜ ಕೊಡ್ಕಣಿ ಚಿಂತಕರು. ಮೂಲತಃ ಉತ್ತರ ಕನ್ನಡ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಕಾರವಾರದವರು. ಶತಕಂಪಿನೀ, ವಿಕ್ಷಿಪ್ತ, ಪ್ರತಿಜ್ಞೆ ಇವು ಅವರ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಗಳು.
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