Girish Karnad
1938–2019playwright, theatre personality (1938–2019)
writer
Bangalore Gundappa Lakshminarayana Swamy
1918–1980, born Bengaluru, writes in Kannada, writer, autobiographer
Bengaluru Gundappa Lakshminarayana Swamy was an Indian botanist and Kannada writer who was professor, head of the botany department and principal of Presidency College, Chennai. He was the son of D. V. Gundappa, an Indian philosopher and writer in the Kannada language.
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Books on record
Awards
| 1978 | Sahitya Akademi Award for Hasuru Honnu |
Elsewhere
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Also writing in Kannada
Chandrashekhara Kambara
b. 1937writer
D. R. Bendre
1896–1981Kannada poet (1896–1981)
Devanur Mahadeva
b. 1948writer
K. Shivaram Karanth
1902–1997writer (1902-1997)
Kuvempu
1904–1994poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and prolific thinker (1904–1994)