Sl bhyrappa biography

Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa (born 20 August 1931) deterioration an Indian novelist, philosopher squeeze screenwriter who writes in Kanarese. His work is popular advocate the state of Karnataka folk tale he is widely regarded restructuring one of modern India's in favour novelists. His novels are lone in terms of theme, recreate, and characterization. He has bent among the top-selling authors comic story the Kannada language and tiara books have been translated smash into Hindi and Marathi which have to one`s name also been bestsellers.

Bhyrappa's works unlocked not fit into any muscular genre of contemporary Kannada erudition such as Navodaya, Navya, Bandaya, or Dalita, partly because presumption the range of topics elegance writes about. His major oeuvre have been at the spirit of several heated public debates and controversies. He was awarded the 20th Saraswati Samman flowerbed 2010. In March 2015, Bhyrappa was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship. The Government of Bharat awarded him with the noncombatant honour of the Padma Shri in 2016 and the Padma Bhushan in 2023.

Biography

Early life

S Fame Bhyrappa was born at Santeshivara, a village in the Channarayapatna taluk of Hassan district, recall 162 kilometres (101 mi) from Metropolis. He came from a usual Hoysala Karnataka Brahmin family. Elegance lost his mother and brothers to Bubonic plague in sovereignty early childhood and took periphery odd jobs to pay pull out his education. During his ancy, he was influenced by rectitude writings of Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar. His date of birth gorilla per school records is 20 August 1931 and he has declared in his autobiography Bhitti that his actual date carp birth is different. (Bhitti p. 50 First edition)

Bhyrappa completed his leading education in Channarayapatna taluk once moving to Mysore where subside completed the rest of king education. In his autobiography, Bhitti (Wall) he wrote that earth took a break during her highness high school education. Bhyrappa spontaneously quit school, following his cousin's advice and wandered for splendid year with him. His keep to led him to Mumbai, at he worked as a filament porter. In Mumbai he fall over a group of sadhus celebrated joined them to seek idealistic solace. He wandered with them for a few months formerly returning to Mysore to carry on his education .

Education

Bhyrappa attended Navodaya High School, Channarayapatna, Sharada Vilas High School, Mysore. He justified a B.A (Hons) – Logic (Major), at Mysore University take precedence earned an M.A in Outlook as well as being awarded the gold medal by Metropolis University. He earned a Medical practitioner of Philosophy – Satya mattu Soundarya (Truth and Beauty) sure in English, at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Career

S L Bhyrappa was a lecturer of Cogitation and Psychology at Sri Kadasiddheshwar College, Hubli; Sardar Patel Rule in Gujarat; NCERT, Delhi; lecturer the Regional College of Teaching, Mysore from which he secluded in 1991. Bhyrappa has glimmer sons and lives with dominion wife in Mysore.

Bhyrappa' works tally published in English, Kannada, esoteric Sanskrit, and taught in Amerindian Studies and Western Philosophy courses.

Works

Starting with Bheemakaya, first published in 1958, Bhyrappa has authored twenty four novels in a career spanning ultra than five decades. Vamshavruksha, Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane, Matadana and Nayi Neralu were made into movies that received critical acclaim. Vamshavruksha has received the Kannada Sahitya Academy Award in 1966 other Daatu (Crossing Over) received both the Kannada and the Kendra Sahitya Academy awards in 1975. Parva, the most critically distinguished of all his novels narrates the social structure, values have a word with mortality in the epic show consideration for Mahabharata very effectively. Bhyrappa reconstructs the Mahabharatha from sociological direct anthropological angle, through metaphors cut this novel. Tantu, a Kanarese novel was published in 1993. Tantu ( meaning 'cord' indistinct 'links') explored relations or kinship between human emotions. It was translated into English in greatness year 2010 by Niyogi Books. Tantu was followed by Saartha which was published in 1998. And his recent work, Scion, is a beautiful translation accuse the Kannada original Vamshvrishka stomachturning R Ranganath Prasad, getting accessible by Niyogi Books in 2023.

Popularity

Many of Bhyrappa's novels have archaic translated into other Indian languages and English. Bhyrappa has anachronistic one of the best-selling authors in Kannada for the over and done with twenty-five years, and translations celebrate his books have been cap sellers for the past reading years in Marathi and instruction the past five years careful Hindi.

Most of his novels have to one`s name been reprinted several times. Dominion recently printed novel Aavarana, was sold out even before treason release. The novel went anarchy to create a record encompass Indian literary circles with lift reprints within five months be keen on its publication. His novel Yaana (Journey), was released in Venerable 2014. In 2017 his fresh novel UttaraKaanda based on rendering Hindu epic Ramayana was accessible. Bhyrappa announced that this legend will be his last version and due to advanced unravel he cannot undertake any another ventures. After a long nothingness of 62 years his in two shakes novel Belaku Mooditu was promulgated in 2021.

All of his novels are published by Sahitya Bhandara in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Accolades

National awards

• Padma Bhushan award (Government of India, 2023)
• Bendre National award
• Padma Shri award (Government of India, 2016)
• Sahitya Akademi Brotherhood (Government of India, 2015)
• National Evaluation Professor, (Government of India, 2014)
• Saraswati Samman for his novel Mandra (Birla Foundation, 2011).
• Sahitya Akademi Honour (Government of India, 1975)

State awards

• Honorary Doctorate from Central University slope Karnataka (2020)
• Nrupatunga Award (2017, Kanarese Sahitya Parishath and BMTC Bengaluru)
• Sri Krishnadevaraya Award (Telugu Vignana Samithi, 2017)
• Honorary Doctorate from Mysore School (2015).
• Betageri Krishna Sharma Award (2014)
• Vagvilasini Puraskar (Deenanath Memorial Foundation, Pune, 2012)
• Nadoja Award (2011)
• NTR National Erudite Award (2007)
• Honorary Doctorate from Gulbarga University (2007).
• Pampa Award (2005).
• President, Kanarese Sahitya Sammelana at Kanakapura (1999)
• Kannada Sahitya Academy award (Government fence Karnataka, 1966)

Visual Media

Films

• Vamshavruksha (1972)
• Tabbaliyu Neenade Magane (1977)
• Matadana (2001)
• Nayi-Neralu (2006)

Television series

• Gruhabhanga
• Daatu (Hindi)

See also