writer

Shantinath Desai

1929–1998, born Haliyal, writes in Kannada, writer

Shantinath Kuberappa Desai (1929–1998) was one of the leading modern authors of the Navya (modernist) movement in Kannada Literature.

Books on record

Editions Open Library lists under this name; a namesake may slip in.

2000	Sahitya Akademi Award for Om Namo

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1938–2019playwright, theatre personality (1938–2019)

b. 1937writer

1896–1981Kannada poet (1896–1981)

b. 1948writer

1902–1997writer (1902-1997)

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