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K. Shivaram Karanth

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Personal information
Birth date10 October 1902
Place of birthSaligrama, Udupi district, Karnataka
Date of death9 December 1997(age 95)
NationalityIndia
OccupationWriter, Film director, Journalist
Period1902-1997
Influenced byM.K. Gandhi
Literary movementNavodaya

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Kota Shivaram Karanth ( ) (October 10, 1902 - December 9, 1997) was a major Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, film maker and thinker. He was described as the "Rabindranath Tagore of Modern India who has been finest novelist-activist since independence" by Ramachandra Guha. He was the third person among seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada the highest literary honour conferred by the Govt. of India. He is also been adjudged as one of the ten makers of India in last 60 years by CNN-IBN. He was conferred Padma Bhushan by Government of India which later he returned in protest against the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.

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