Chandrashekhara Kambara
b. 1937writer
playwright, theatre personality (1938–2019)
Girish Karnad
1938–2019, born Matheran, writes in Kannada, English, Hindi, Marathi, writer, playwright
Girish Raghunath Kārnād was an Indian playwright, actor, film director, writer, and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi, and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi. He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.
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Books on record
On Open Library
Tughlaq1972
The fire and the rain =1998
Tughlaq1972
Three Plays1996
The dreams of Tipu Sultan2004
Naga-MandalaEditions Open Library lists under this name; a namesake may slip in.
Awards
| 1998 | Jnanpith Award |
| 1994 | Sahitya Akademi Award in Kannada for Tale Danda |
Elsewhere
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Also writing in Kannada
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)
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
1891–1986writer (1891–1986)