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Girish Karnad
Girish Karnad was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright and a Rhodes Scholar, who predominantly worked in South Indian cinema and Bollywood. 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. 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.
BornGirish Raghunath Karnad, May 19, 1938, Matheran, Bombay Presidency, British India, (now in Maharashtra, India)
DiedJune 10, 2019, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
OccupationPlaywright, director, actor
Alma materKarnataka University, Magdalen College, Oxford
Period1961–2019
GenreFiction
Literary movementNavya
Notable worksTughalak 1964, Taledanda
SpouseDr Saraswathy Ganapathy
ChildrenRaghu Karnad, Shalmali Radha

About Girish Karnad

Playwright Girish Karnad was born in Matheran, India on May 19, 1938. He dies at the age of 81, on June 10, 2019.

Awarded dramatist and Kannada filmmaker who rose to prominence as one of India's foremost public intellectuals. Tughalak and Taledanda are two of his outstanding dramatic works.

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Girish Karnad before becoming famous

Girish Karnad was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1938 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Tiger (兎).

He began creating plays rich in mythology and philosophy when he was a teenager, when he joined an amateur theater group in Chennai.

Achievement of Girish Karnad

Filmmakers, novelists, and reviewers from both India and the United States praised his massive corpus of work.

Girish Karnad's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born in the Maharashtra city of Matheran. With his arts-loving parents, he went to a lot of traveling theater plays as a kid. Until his death in 2019, he was married to Saraswathy Ganapathy.

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Girish Karnad Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Girish Karnad updated on March 17 2023.