WRITER

K. Shivaram Karanth

1902 - 1997

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Kota Shivaram Karanth (10 October 1902 – 9 December 1997), also abbreviated as K. Shivaram Karanth, was an Indian polymath, who was a novelist in Kannada language, playwright and an ecological conservationist. Ramachandra Guha called him the "Rabindranath Tagore of Modern India, who has been one of the finest novelists-activists since independence". He was the third writer to be decorated with the Jnanpith Award for Kannada, the highest literary honor conferred in India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of K. Shivaram Karanth has received more than 537,833 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. K. Shivaram Karanth is the 2,904th most popular writer (down from 2,592nd in 2019), the 373rd most popular biography from India (down from 318th in 2019) and the 55th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 16

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Notable Works

Bettada Jiva
2014
Choma's drum
1978

Among WRITERS

Among writers, K. Shivaram Karanth ranks 2,904 out of 7,302. Before him are Budd Schulberg, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Marie Corelli, Lev Rubinstein, Jean Richepin, and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. After him are Salama Moussa, Ana Blandiana, Nazik Al-Malaika, Joseph Görres, Alfred Kerr, and Daniel Varoujan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, K. Shivaram Karanth ranks 144. Before him are Riccardo Morandi, Bobby Jones, Luis Cernuda, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Anthony Asquith, and Nikolay Kamov. After him are Gustav Fröhlich, Khuang Aphaiwong, Max Abegglen, Thomas E. Dewey, Mitrofan Nedelin, and Jack Sharkey. Among people deceased in 1997, K. Shivaram Karanth ranks 123. Before him are King Hu, Lev Kopelev, Jeff Buckley, Paul Carell, Georges Marchais, and Francisco Aramburu. After him are Dick van Dijk, Adil Çarçani, Cheddi Jagan, Juzo Itami, Josef Posipal, and Eugene Stoner.

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In India

Among people born in India, K. Shivaram Karanth ranks 373 out of 1,861. Before him are Rana Sanga (1482), Guru Har Krishan (1656), Girija Prasad Koirala (1924), Udit Narayan (1955), Meena Kumari (1933), and Dara Shukoh (1615). After him are Gupta (240), Baba Amte (1914), M. N. Roy (1887), Tyagaraja (1767), Bhikaiji Cama (1861), and Orde Wingate (1903).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, K. Shivaram Karanth ranks 55. Before him are Jim Corbett (1875), Bhavabhuti (null), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), Ram Prasad Bismil (1897), and Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911). After him are Maithili Sharan Gupt (1886), Sumitranandan Pant (1900), Shibli Nomani (1857), Suryakant Tripathi (1899), R. K. Narayan (1906), and Idries Shah (1924).

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