U. R. Ananthamurthy

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U. R. Ananthamurthy was a prominent Indian writer, critic, and public intellectual, widely recognized as a leading figure of modernist literature in the Kannada language.

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instanceOf Indian writer
Kannada-language writer
academic
literary critic
novelist
person
public intellectual
short story writer
awardReceived Jnanpith Award
Masti Award
Padma Bhushan
Sahitya Akademi Award
causeOfDeath cardiac arrest
child Anuradha Ananthamurthy
Sharath Ananthamurthy
countryOfCitizenship India
dateOfBirth 1932-12-21
dateOfDeath 2014-08-22
educatedAt University of Birmingham
Mysore University
surface form: University of Mysore
employer Jawaharlal Nehru University
Mangalore University
Mysore University
surface form: University of Mysore
fieldOfWork education
literary criticism
literature
fullName U. R. Ananthamurthy self-linksurface differs
surface form: Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy
genre modernist literature
novel
short story
givenName U. R. Ananthamurthy self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ananthamurthy
knownFor leading figure of modernist Kannada literature
social and political commentary in India
languageOfWorkOrName Kannada
movement Navya (modernist) movement in Kannada literature
nativeLanguage Kannada
notableWork Avasthe
Bharathipura
Bhava
Divya
Prasne
Samskara
occupation critic
professor
public intellectual
writer
placeOfBirth Melige, Tirthahalli taluk, Shivamogga district, Karnataka, India
placeOfDeath Bengaluru
surface form: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
positionHeld President of Sahitya Akademi
Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
religion Hinduism
spouse Esther Ananthamurthy

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Kannada hasNotableWriter U. R. Ananthamurthy
Pampa Award hasRecipient U. R. Ananthamurthy