The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist.…
Slavomir Rawicz (Sławomir Rawicz) was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the Soviets after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed th…
Dr S.L. Bhyrappa was a litterateur par excellence. He writes in the south Indian language, Kannada, and has been the bestselling novelist for over 25 years now. His novels are widely translated to pan…
Sudha Murty was born in 1950 in Shiggaon in north Karnataka. She did her MTech in computer science, and is now the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation. A prolific writer in English and Kannada, she …
Kota Shivaram Karanth was a Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, film maker and thinker. He was described as the "Rabindranath Tagore of Modern India who has been one …
K.P. Purnachandra Tejaswi was a prominent Kannada writer, novelist, photographer, ornithologist, publisher, painter and environmentalist. He made a great impression in the "Navya" period of Kannada li…
Amish is an IIM (Kolkata) educated, banker turned award-winning author. The success of his debut book, The Immortals of Meluha (Book 1 of the Shiva Trilogy), encouraged him to give up a fourteen-year-…
Ravi Belagere was a writer and journalist based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He was the editor of Kannada language tabloid Hi Bangalore,which he founded along with R. T. Vittalamurthy, Ra. Somanath…
'ತಳುಕು ರಾಮಸ್ವಾಮಯ್ಯ ಸುಬ್ಬರಾಯ' ಅವರು ಕನ್ನಡದ ಮೊದಲ ಪ್ರಾಧ್ಯಾಪಕರಾದ ತಳುಕಿನ ವೆಂಕಣ್ಣಯ್ಯನವರ ತಮ್ಮನವರ ಮಗ. ಇವರು ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ್ದು ೧೯೧೯ರಲ್ಲಿ. ಅವರು ಬರೆದ 'ನಾಗರಹಾವು' ಕಾದಂಬರಿಯಲ್ಲಿನ ರಾಮಾಚಾರಿಯ ಪಾತ್ರದಂತೆಯೇ ಅವರು ಛಲದ ಮನುಷ್ಯರಾಗಿದ್ದವ…
Vasudhendra (ವಸುಧೇಂದ್ರ) was born at Sandur in Ballari district, Karnataka. After working as a software professional for more than twenty years, Vasudhendra now runs his own publication house, Chanda P…
ಡಾ. ಚಂದ್ರಶೇಖರ ಕಂಬಾರ ಕಥೆಗಾರ, ಕವಿ, ಕಾದಂಬರಿಕಾರ, ನಾಟಕಕಾರ, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯದ ಅಧ್ಯಾಪಕರು, ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಜಾನಪದ ಅಕಾಡೆಮಿಯ ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷರು, ನವದೆಹಲಿಯ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ನಾಟಕ ಶಾಲೆಯ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರು, ಹಂಪಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿವಿಯ ಮೊದಲ ಕುಲಪತಿಯಾಗಿ ಡಾ…
八木沢 里志 (Satoshi Yagisawa) was born in Chiba, Japan, in 1977. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, his debut novel, was originally published in 2009 and won the Chiyoda Literature Prize.
ವೃತ್ತಿಯಿಂದ ಸಹಾಯಕ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರಾಗಿರುವ ಕೌಶಿಕ್ ಕೂಡುರಸ್ತೆ ಅವರು ಮೂಲತಃ ಹಾಸನ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಸಕಲೇಶಪುರ ತಾಲ್ಲೂಕಿನ ಕೂಡುರಸ್ತೆ ಗ್ರಾಮದವರು. ತಂದೆ-ಹೆಚ್.ಎಸ್. ತಮ್ಮೇಗೌಡ, ತಾಯಿ ಭಾಗ್ಯ ಆಚಾರ್ಯ ಇನ್ಸ್ಟಿಟ್ಯೂಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಏರೋನಾಟಿಕಲ್ ಇಂಜಿನಿಯರಿಂಗ್ …
Banu Mushtaq (ಬಾನು ಮುಷ್ತಾಕ್, born 1948) is an activist, lawyer and writer from the southern Indian state of Karnataka. She writes in the Kannada language and her works have also been published in Urdu…
