L C Sumithra

About L C Sumithra

L C Sumithra is Professor at Tunga College, Teerthahalli, Karnataka and visiting faculty at Kuvempu Kannada Adhyayana Kendra, Kuppali (research center of Hampi Kannada University). She is a well-known Kannada writer and has four collections of critical essays to her credit: Vibhaava, Nirukhta, Kaadu-kadalu and Gaddeyanchina daari and two anthologies of poems, Bakulada Daari and Tumbe Hoo. She has translated Amrita Preetham’s novel Pinjar into Kannada and is the author of Hoo Hasirina Maatu, a classificatory work on the aromatic plants of Western Ghats. She is the recipient of the H V Savitramma Prashasti, Kannada Sahitya Parishat Prize, the Ratnamma Heggade Memorial Prize, the Infosys Foundation Prize and the B M Sri Pratishthana award. Her poems and stories have been translated into many South Indian languages.