U R Ananthamurthy

About U R Ananthamurthy

U R Ananthamurthy was one of India’s key literary figures and an important representative of the ‘Navya’ movement in the literature of Kannada. His works have been translated into many Indian and European languages and have been awarded major literary prizes, including the Jnanpeeth Award in 1994. He was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Bhushan in 1998. Samskara and Bharathipura are among his best known novels. Out of Print has previously published two works by him, a short story and a novella.