Key facts
- Born
- 19 May 1938, Matheran
- Died
- 10 June 2019, Bengaluru
- State of birth
- Matheran, Maharashtra
- Sector
- Literature & writing
- Profession
- Indian playwright, theatre personality (1938–2019)
- Gender
- Male
Biography
Girish Raghunath Kārnād was an Indian playwright, actor, film director, writer, 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. He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India.
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Timeline
- 1938Born in Matheran
- 1960Awarded the Rhodes Scholarship
- 1972Awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
- 1974Awarded the Padma Shri in arts
- 1987Awarded the Fulbright Scholarship
- 1992Awarded the Padma Bhushan
- 1994Awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in Kannada
- 1998Awarded the Jnanpith Award
- 2019Dies in Bengaluru
Sources & licences
- English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- हिंदी विकिपीडिया (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- Wikidata (CC0) · 3/5