V k gokak biography of nancy

Indian writer (–)

For other uses, see Gokak (disambiguation).

Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (9 August – 28 April ), abbreviated in Kannada as Vi.

Kru. Gokak, was an Indian writer in the Kannada language and a scholar of English and Kannada literatures. He was the fifth writer^[1] to be honoured with the Jnanpith Award in for Kannada language, for his epicBharatha Sindhu Rashmi.

Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi deals with the Vedic age and is perhaps the longest epic narrative in any language in the 20th century.

V k gokak biography of nancy

In , Gokak was awarded the Padma Shri from the Government of India for Dyava Prithvi.

Academic life

Gokak was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family^[2] on 9 August to Sundarabai and Krishna Rao.^[3] He was educated in Majid High School, Savanur, and attended the Karnataka College Dharawada where he studied literature.

He was later awarded first class honours by the University of Oxford. On his return from Oxford in , he became