Kuvempu

Kuvempu

male, deceased (1994)
Kuppali, Karnataka Ratna Award recipient, Padma Vibhushan recipient, mysore, Indian literature, Kannada literature…Padma Bhushan recipient, JnanpithAwardrecipient
Kuvempu was born in Hirekodige, Koppa taluk, of Chikmagalur district to a native Kannada family. He was brought up in a place in the lush Malenadu...
D. R. Bendre

D. R. Bendre

male, deceased (1981)
Karnataka kula Thilaka, Padma Shri, udupi, Solapur, Kannada literature, Kannada writer…JnanpithAwardrecipient, Jnanpith Award, Sahitya Academy award
Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre was amongst the most famous of Kannada poets of the Navodaya Period and important contributor to the field of Marathi...
Girish Karnad

Girish Karnad

male, 71 years old
Konkani, Padma Shri, From Karnataka, Padma Bhushan recipient, Padma Shri recipient, Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford…JnanpithAwardrecipient, Jnanpith Award
Girish Karnad (born May 19, 1938), is a contemporary writer, playwright, actor and movie director in Kannada language. He is the latest one among...

U. R. Ananthamurthy

male, 77 years old
Navya movement, Jnanpith, Kannada poet, philosopher, Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy, Jnanpith Award…JnanpithAwardrecipient, Padma Bhushan recipient
Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy, is a leading contemporary writer and critic in Kannada language and considered as one of the most important...

V. K. Gokak

male, deceased (1992)
kannada, English, english literature, Indian, Kannada literature, Kannada writer…JnanpithAwardrecipient, Jnanpith Award
Vinayaka Krishna Gokak Kannada:ವಿನಾಯಕ ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಗೊಕಾಕ್ (1909-1992) was a major writer in Kannada language and a scholar of English and Kannada lit...
M. T. Vasudevan Nair

M. T. Vasudevan Nair

male, 76 years old
Indian, Palakkad, States and territories of India, JnanpithAwardrecipient, Malayali, malayalam
M. T. Vasudevan Nair, popularly known as MT, is a Malayalam author, screenplay writer and film director. He was born on July 15, 1933 in Kudallur,...
G. Sankara Kurup

G. Sankara Kurup

male, deceased (1978)
poet, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ernakulam, JnanpithAwardrecipient, Jnanpith Award, Trichur
G. Sankara Kurup, (born June 3, 1901, Nayathode, Kerala, India - February 2, 1978, Trivandrum, Kerala), better known as Mahakavi G (The Great Poet...
Sumitranandan Pant

Sumitranandan Pant

male, deceased (1977)
from Bageshwar, From Allahabad, Lokayatan, Chidambara, Nehru Peace Prize, from Uttarakhand…Jnanpith Award, JnanpithAwardrecipient
"'Sumitranandan Pant, socialist and humanist poems. Pant received Jnanpith Award for collection of his most famous poems, titled "Chidambara". He...
Ali Sardar Jafri

Ali Sardar Jafri

male, deceased (2000)
from Balrampur, JnanpithAwardrecipient, writer, Urdu, Uttar Pradesh, From Uttar Pradesh…Padma Shri recipient, Jnanpith
Ali Sardar Jafri (November 29, 1916, to August 1, 2000) was born in Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh and was an Urdu writer. Ali Sardar Jafri was...
Qurratulain Hyder

Qurratulain Hyder

female, 82 years old
From Aligarh, Muslim, Hyder, Qurrat-ul-Ain, Urdu-language writer, Sajjad Haidar Yaldram, JnanpithAwardrecipient
Hyder, Qurrat-ul-Ain is an Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. She is the daughter of the famous writer Sajjad...