Cast · Writer
Girish Karnad
1938 – 2019
- Active years (films on this site)
- 1975–1984
- Schools and movements
- Indian Parallel Cinema
Directors worked with
Biography
Girish Raghunath Kārnād was an Indian playwright, actor, film director, writer, and a Jnanpith awardee, who predominantly worked in Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Marathi films. 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.
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Awards and honours
International
- Rhodes Scholarship 1960
- Fulbright Scholarship 1987
National / local
- Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 1972
- Padma Shri in arts 1974
- Padma Bhushan 1992
- Sahitya Akademi Award in Kannada 1994
- Jnanpith Award 1998