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Girish Karnad
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Indian playwright, theatre personality (1938–2019)
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Girish Raghunath Karnad (1938–2019) was an Indian writer, stage actor, translator, and screenwriter. Born in Matheran, he worked in Kannada and English. His career spanned from 1961 until his death in Bengaluru. He was educated at Karnatak University, Lincoln College, and Magdalen College. Karnad also worked for Oxford University Press.
He received the Jnanpith Award, Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, and Rhodes Scholarship. His notable works include *Collected Plays Volume 3 OIP*, *Collected Plays: Tughlaq*, *Hayavadana*, *Bali*, *Naga-Mandala*, *Collected Plays Volume 1*, and *Crossing to Talikota*. He spoke Hindi, English, Kannada, and Marathi. Karnad died from multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1938
- Died
- .
- Works
- 37
Top works
- Collected Plays Volume 3 OIP
- Collected Plays: Tughlaq, Hayavadana, Bali
- Naga-Mandala
- Collected Plays Volume 1
- Crossing to Talikota
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Film & TV
Maharashtra, India
Girish Karnad (19 May 1938 – 10 June 2019) was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright 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.He was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour…
Known for
- The Master: Shyam Benegal — Himself2022
- Revisiting Samskara2018
- Tiger Zinda Hai — Shenoy2017
- 24 — Sathya's grandfather2016
- Chalk N Duster2016
- Rudra Tandava2015
- Rana Vikrama — K. V. Anand Rao2015
- Gurudakshina2015
- Samrat & Co. — Mahendra Pratap Singh2014
- Chandra2014
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dominion of India
- Place of birth
- Matheran
- Place of death
- Bengaluru
- Occupation
- film actor
- Educated at
- Magdalen College
- Employer
- Oxford University Press
- Languages spoken
- Marathi
- Image
- Girish Karnad Screening Cornell.JPG
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- Commons category
- Girish Karnad
- date of birth
- 1938-05-19
- date of death
- 2019-06-26
- cause of death
- multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
- writing language
- English language
- start of work period
- 1961-00-00
- end of work period
- 2019-00-00
- name in native language
- गिरीश कर्नाड
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Girish Karnad
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