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V. K. Gokak

 
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Vinayaka Krishna Gokak

Born August 9, 1909 (1909-08-09) (age 99)
Savanur, Haveri district, Karnataka
Died 28 April 1992 (aged 82)
Bengaluru, Karnataka
Occupation Professor, Writer
Nationality Indian
Genres Fiction
Literary movement Navodaya

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.

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

References

  1. ^ "Jnanpith Award". Ekavi. http://ekavi.org/jnanpeeth.htm. Retrieved on 2006-10-31. 

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