U. R. Ananthamurthy
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Known For Writer
Gender Male
Birthday 1932-12-21
Deathday 2014-08-22 (81 years old)
Place of Birth Thirthahalli, Karnataka, India
U. R. Ananthamurthy
Biography
Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (21 December 1932 – 22 August 2014) was an Indian contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language. He was born in Thirtahalli Taluk and is considered one of the pioneers of the Navya movement. In 1994, he became the sixth Kannada writer to be honored with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India. In 1998, he received the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India.[4] He was the vice-chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala during the late 1980s.
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