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Women writers (poets, novelists, screenplay writers, playwrights, journalists etc) who live or have lived in Karnataka, or who are of Kannada origin, or both. Pages in category "Women writers from Karnataka"
Kannada poetry dates back many centuries, to before the time of Adikavi Pampa. A revival took place in the early 20th century led by Kuvempu, Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, B. M. Srikanthaiah and others. The genre was further developed after Indian independence with poets including Gopalakrishna Adiga
H. S. Mukthayakka is a writer in Kannada.She is one of the pioneers of modern woman's poetry in Kannada literature.She is the daughter of the poet Late. Shantarasa. Hailing from Raichur district, she was a lecturer in a women's college and retired as a pr
Vijaya Dabbe was one of the founders of ‛Samatha Vedike’, [6] instituted in 1978, a group of women writers and activists who have been working to spread awareness about gender equality, family atrocities on women, dowry, child marriage, other caste based discrimination and social injustice for the depressed classes, especially women. Dabbe ...
Akka Mahadevi (c. 1130–1160) was an early poet of Kannada literature [1] and a prominent member of the Lingayatism founded in the 12th century. [2] Her 430 vachanas (a form of spontaneous mystical poems), and the two short writings called Mantrogopya and the Yogangatrividh are considered her known contributions to Kannada literature. [3]
She is an Indian feminist writer and well-known writer of modern Kannada language fiction. Vaidehi is one of the most successful women writers in the language and a recipient of prestigious national and state-level literary awards. [2] She has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for her collection of short stories, Krauncha Pakshigalu in 2009. [3]
Pratibha Nandakumar (born 25 January 1955) is an Indian poet, journalist, feminist, columnist and activist who works in Kannada and English. [1] [2] She is considered as one of the pioneers of modern woman's poetry in Kannada literature. [3] For her work Kavadeyaata, Pratibha was awarded the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry in 1998.
She translated Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings into Kannada. M. R. Kamala started her career working as a Kannada Lecturer in a Pre-Univeraity (PU) College, at Halebidu in 1981 and retired as a Principal of Shivanahalli Pre-University College (PU), Rajajinagar, Bengaluru in 2018. [3]