About Shivaram Karanth
Kota Shivaram Karanth, also abbreviated as K. Shivaram Karanth, was an Indian author, who was a novelist in the Kannada language, a 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. His son Ullas, is an ecological conservationist. Karanth began writing in 1924 and soon published his first book, Rashtrageetha Sudhakara, a collection of poems. His Mookajjiya Kanasugalu novel won Jnanpith award.
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