Srikrishna Alanahalli

Srikrishna Alanahalli (3 April 1947 – 4 January 1989) was an Indian novelist and poet. The majority of his works are written in the Kannada language. He became popular for his novels Kaadu (1972), Parasangada Gendethimma (1978) and Bhujangayyana Dasavataragalu (1982), some of which were later adapted into films.^[1][2]

Early Life

Alanahalli was born on April 3, 1947 in Alanahalli, Kingdom of Mysore (now Karnataka). He received his Master of Arts in Philosophy in 1969 and worked as a lecturer at Mysore University and the Central Institute of Indian Languages from 1969 to 1979. He then became a full-time writer and immersed himself in different fields, such as literature, cinema, agriculture, and journalism. He also actively took part in contemporary politics.

Literary Career

Alanahalli's Parasangada Gendethimma was made into a Tamil film, Rosapoo Ravikaikari and won accolades. In Kannada, the novel was made into a film of the same name with Lokesh playing the lead role of Gendethimma. He won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Actor.^[3]

Kaadu launched Girish Karnad as a director and introduced Amrish Puri to the film world, marked Lokesh as an actor par excellence and won child artiste GS Nataraj, who played 'Kitty', national and international acclaim. The film also won the National award in 1974.

Alanahalli edited a bi-monthly Sameekshna and ran a publishing house of the same name. He has 12 books to his credit, including three collections of poems. He translated Dogri Pahari love poems into Kannada.

Major awards

• Sahitya Academy Prashasti for his poetry collection Mannina Haadu in 1966.
• Karnataka government prize for Kaadu in 1970.
• Karnataka Sahitya Academy Honorary prize, posthumously in 1989

References

External links

• Srikrishna Alanahalli at the Internet Movie Database