K. Shivaram Karanth

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K. Shivarama Karantha (ಶಿವರಾಮ ಕಾರಂತ)

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Born (1902-10-10)10 October 1902
Kota, Udupi, Kingdom of Mysore, British India
Died 9 December 1997(1997-12-09) (aged 95)
Manipal, Udupi district, Karnataka
Occupation Novelist, playwright, poet, naturalist, environmentalist, film director, journalist, Yakshagana researcher and artist, educationist[1]
Nationality Indian
Period 1902–1997
Genre Fiction, popular science, literature for children, dance-drama
Literary movement Navodaya

Kota Shivaram Karanth (ಶಿವರಾಮ ಕಾರಂತ)(10 October 1902 – 9 December 1997) was a Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, film maker and thinker. Ramachandra Guha called him the "Rabindranath Tagore of Modern India, who has been one of the finest novelists-activists since independence".[2] He was the third writer[3] to be decorated with the Jnanpith Award for Kannada, the highest literary honor conferred in India.[4]

Early life

Shivaram Karanth was born on 10 October 1902,[5] in Kota near Udupi in the Udupi district of Karnataka to a Kannada speaking family. The fifth child of his parents Shesha Karantha and Lakshmamma, he completed his primary education in Kundapura and Mangalore. Shivaram Karanth was influenced by Gandhi's principles and took part in Indian Independence movement when he was in college. He did not complete his education and went to participate in the Non-co-operation movement and canvassed for khadi and swadeshi for five years up to 1927.[5] By that time Karanth had already started writing fiction novels and plays.[5]

Career

Karanth was an intellectual and environmentalist who made notable contribution to the art and culture of Karnataka.[5] He is considered one of the most influential novelists in the Kannada language. His novels Marali Mannige, Bettada Jeeva, Alida Mele, Mookajjiya Kanasugalu, Mai Managala Suliyalli, Ade OOru Ade Mara, Shaneeshwarana Neralinalli, Kudiyara Koosu, Svapnada Hole, Sarsammana Samadhi, and Chomana Dudi are widely read and have received critical acclaim.[5] He wrote two books on Karnataka's ancient stage dance-drama Yakshagana (1957 and 1975).

He was involved in experiments in the technique of printing for some years in the 1930s and 1940s and printed his own novels, but incurred financial losses. He was also a painter and was deeply concerned with the issue of nuclear energy and its impact on the environment.[6] At the age of 95, he wrote a book on birds (published during 2002 by Manohara Grantha Mala, Dharwad).

He wrote, apart from his forty seven novels, thirty one plays, four short story collections, six books of essays and sketches, thirteen books on art, two volumes of poems, nine encyclopedias, and over one hundred articles on various issues.[6]

Literary and National honors

Film awards

Writings

Novel

Short story

Plays

Children's books

Autobiography

Travelogue

Biography

Art, Architecture and Other

Kannada cinema

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Chandra (1999), p.575
  2. ↑ The Arun Shourie of the left
  3. ↑ "Jnanapeeth Awards". Ekavi. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2006.
  4. ↑ "Jnanpith Laureates Official listings". Jnanpith Website.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Guha, Ramachandra (13 October 2002). "The Kannada colossus". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 November 2006.
  6. 1 2 http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/a-walk-through-the-life-of-karanth/article4454393.ece
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Karanta (1997), p.253
  8. ↑ "Fellow and Honorary Fellows". Sahitya Akademi-National Academi of Letters. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  9. ↑ "Sangeet Natak Akademi Ratna Puraskar (Akademi Fellows)". Sahitya Natak Akademi-National Akademi of Music, Dance and Drama. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "Shivarama Karanth is dead". Rediff on the Net. 9 December 1997. Retrieved 23 November 2014.

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Further reading

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