Subramanyaraje Urs (1916 – 19 October 1998), known by his pseudonym Chaduranga, was an Indian writer in
Kannada language
Kannada () is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, an ...
. He wrote four novels—''Sarvamangala'', ''Uyyale'', ''Vaishakha'', and ''Hejjala''—and a few other short stories. Chaduranga directed the on-screen version of ''
Sarvamangala'' in 1968 while
''Uyyale'' was made into a
movie of same name in 1969.
Awards
Chaduranga was honoured with the State
Sahitya Academy Award
The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...
in 1982,
the
Karnataka
Karnataka ( ) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed as Mysore State on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, States Re ...
State Rajyotsava award, the Central Sahitya Academy award, and an honorary doctorate by the
Mysore University in 1993.
References
External links
Remembering ''Chaduranga''*
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Indian male novelists
1916 births
1998 deaths
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Kannada
20th-century Indian novelists
Writers from Mysore
Novelists from Karnataka
20th-century Indian male writers