Girish Raghunath Karnad (1938-05-19)19 May 1938 Matheran, Bombay Presidency, British India (now in Maharashtra, India)
Died
10 June 2019(2019-06-10) (aged 81) Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Occupation
Playwright
director
actor
Alma mater
Karnataka University Magdalen College, Oxford
Period
1961–2019
Genre
Fiction
Literary movement
Navya
Notable works
Tughlaq Taledanda Ajit Shenoy in YRF Spy Universe
Spouse
Saraswathy Ganapathy
Children
Raghu Karnad, Shalmali Radha
Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019)[1] was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer,[2] playwright and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films. His rise as a playwright in the 1960s marked the coming of age of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, just as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi, and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi.[3] He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.[4]
For four decades Karnad composed plays, often using history and mythology to tackle contemporary issues. He translated his plays into English and received acclaim. His plays have been translated into some Indian languages and directed by directors like Ebrahim Alkazi, B. V. Karanth, Alyque Padamsee, Prasanna, Arvind Gaur, Satyadev Dubey, Vijaya Mehta, Shyamanand Jalan, Amal Allanaa and Zafer Mohiuddin.[5]
He was active in the world of Indian cinema working as an actor, director and screenwriter, in Hindi and Kannada cinema, and has earned awards.
He was conferred Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan by the Government of India and won four Filmfare Awards, of which three are Filmfare Award for Best Director – Kannada and the fourth a Filmfare Best Screenplay Award. He was a presenter for a weekly science magazine programme called "Turning Point" that aired on Doordarshan in 1991.
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^"Drama between the lines". Financial Express. 28 January 2007. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
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