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H. S. Shivaprakash

b. 1954, writes in Kannada, English, writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, translator

Hulkuntemath Shivamurthy Sastri Shivaprakash is a leading poet and playwright writing in Kannada. He is professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He heads the Cultural Centre at Berlin, known as the Tagore Centre, as Director run by Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). He has seven anthologies of poems, twelve plays, and several other books to his credit. His works have been widely translated into English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Polish, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu. His plays have been performed in Kannada, Hindi, Meitei, Rabha, Assamese, Bodo, Tamil and Malayalam. Shivaprakash is also a well-known authority on vachana literature, Bhakti movements of India, and Sufi and other mystic traditions.

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Books on record

Awards

2012Sahitya Akademi Award for Mabbina Haage Kanive Haasi

Elsewhere

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Kuvempu

1904–1994poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and prolific thinker (1904–1994)