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| Born | August 9, 1909 Savanur, Haveri district, Karnataka |
| Died | 28 April 1992 (aged 82) Bengaluru, Karnataka |
| Occupation | Professor, Writer |
| Nationality | Indian  |
| Genres | Fiction |
| Literary movement | Navodaya |
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Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (Kannada: ವಿನಾಯಕ ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಗೊಕಾಕ್) (1909-1992) was a major writer in Kannada language and a scholar of English and Kannada literatures. He was fifth among seven recipients[1] of Jnanpith Award for Kannada language for his epic Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi. Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi that deals with the vedic age is perhaps the longest epic written in any language in the 20th Century.
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Academic life
Vinayak Gokak was a student of literature at Karnatak College Dharwar. Gokak with a first at Oxford in a colonial India, was a charismatic Indian professor of English. After returning from Oxford, he in the year 1938 became the principal of Willingdon college, Sangli. Through the years, Gokak had the privilege of heading colleges, universites and elite institutes in India. His novel Samarasave Jeevana is considered one of the representative works of Navodaya literature in Kannada.
Selected work
Epics
- Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi
Novels
- Samarasave Jeevana
Poetry Collections
- Urnanaabha
- Abyudaya
- Baaladeguladalli
- Dhyava Pruthvi (Kannada Saahithya Academy Award)
- Samudra Geethegal
Translations
- Voices of the Himalaya: poems. Trans. by the author, Kamala Ratnam, V.K. Gokak and others. (Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1966. vi, 70 p.) being translation of poems by celebrated poet Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
Awards
In 1961, Gokak was awarded the Padmashree from the Government of India for Dyava Prithvi. Gokak received India's highest literary honor, the Jnanpith Award, for Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi, in 1990.
See also
- Gokak agitation - a language campaign
References
- ^ "Jnanpith Award". Ekavi. http://ekavi.org/jnanpeeth.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-31.
External links
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