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4 MAY 1935 DR.SUMATHEENDRA R.NADIG BORN

Sumatheendra R Nadig

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Dr. Sumatheendra R Nadig
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Born4 May 1935
Kalasa, a village inChickamagalur District, Karnataka
OccupationProfessor, writer
NationalityIndia
Literary movementNavya
Dr.Sumathendra Raghavendra Nadig– Born in 1935, came upon the literary scene as a prominent modern poet in 1960s. He was a close associate of Gopalakrishna Adiga, the leader of the modernist movement. Nadig's Dampatya Gita has been translated into English, Hindi, Bengali and other Indian languages and his other major poem Panchabhut has been considered to be "very important and original contribution to Modern Indian Literature". His poetic achievement has been acknowledged by great poets like Gopalakrishna Adiga, Pu. Ti. Narasimhachar, Ayyappa Panikar, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Manohar Rai Sardesai, G. S. Shivrudrappa, and writers like S. L. Bhyrappa and U. R. Anantha Murthy, and scholars like Kapila Vatsyayan and Sibnarayan Ray. He has two Master's Degrees in English, one from Mysore University and the other from Temple University (USA). He has also received a PhD in Kannada from Bangalore University and an honorary Doctorate "Shabda Marthand" from Gurukul Kangri University, Hardwar. He has received many awards like Karnataka Rajyothsava Prashsti, Dinakara Pratisthana Prashasti, V. M. Inamdar Prashsti, M.V.Si. Puraskara etc. He was the Chairman of National Book Trust from 1996–1999. He is well known for his critical studies of Bendre, K.S. Narasimha Swamy and Adiga, and short stories and nursery rhymes, and translations from Bengali to Kannada, and from Kannada to English.
Poetry makes strange things happen. I reach the society in me, and the society meets me in my poetry. — Sumatheendra Nadig

Personal life[edit]

Sumatheendra Nadig is married to Malathi and has three children, Swapna, Rashmi and Apoorva. He currently resides in Bangalore

Awards[edit]

  • Kempe Gowda Award, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara
  • Palike, July 2007.
  • Sri Krishna Prashasti, conferred by Sri Sri Pejawara
  • Viswesha Tirtha Swamiji, June 2007.
  • Vijayeendra Puraskara, conferred by Sri Sri
  • Sushameendra Teertha Swamiji, July 2007.
  • Niranjana Prashasti, 2006.
  • Aryabhata Award, 2005.
  • Visweswariah Sahitya Prashasti, 2005.
  • M.Vi.See. Sahitya Puraskar, 2004.
  • Sahitya Siri Award, Chickmagalur Jilla Sahitya Parishat, 2002.
  • UGC Emeritus Fellow March 2000 – 2002.
  • Chairman, National Book Trust, India. October 1996 – Oct.1999.
  • Award for Translation–Karnataka Sahitya Akademi, 1999.
  • Awarded 'Vidya Marthanda' honorary degree: Gurukul
  • Kangri University 1997 Haridwar. (Delivered the convocation address)
  • V.M. Inamdar Vimarsha Prashasti, 1995.
  • Rajyotsava Award – Govt. of Karnataka, 1995.
  • Award for translation – Karnataka Sahitya Akademi, 1994.
  • Sahitya Akademi Travel Grant, 1991.
  • Dinakar Pratishthana Award, 1990.
  • U.G.C. Short Term Research Grant, 1998.
  • Award for Translation–Karnataka Sahitya Akademi, 1997.
  • Best Fiction Award – ‘Sudha’ Novel Competition, 1997.

Academic and professional experience[edit]

  • Visiting Professor, Viswa-Bharati, Shantiniketan, October–December 1997.
  • Visiting Fellow, Jadhavpur University, Calcuta, November 1991 – March 1992.
  • Reader in English, Bangalore University, 1989–95.
  • Senior Executive, Bappco Publication, Bangalore 1975–80.
  • Part-time faculty of the Department of English, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1972–74.
  • Instructor in English, Haverford College, Haverford, 1973.
  • Professor and Head of the Department of English, St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa, 1965–1971.
  • Visiting Professor, Bombay University Post-Graduate Centre, Panjim, Goa, 1965–1971.
  • Lecturer in English at Margo, Bombay and Belgaum, 1957–65.

Languages known[edit]

Kannada, English, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani, Bengali.

Books published in Kannada[edit]

Poetry[edit]

  • Jada Mattu Chetana, 2005
  • Pancha Bhootagalu, 2000
  • Samagra Kavya, 1998
  • Nataraja Kanda Kamanabillu, 1994.
  • Kuhoo Gita, 1992.
  • Tamashe Padyagalu, 1992, 1998.
  • Dampatya Gita, 1987 (Translated into Sanskrit, English,Bengali, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu, Assamese, Malayalam, Punjabi,Marathi).
  • Bhava Loka, 1983.
  • Udghatane, 1978.
  • Kappu Devate, 1970.
  • Nimma Premakumariya Jataka, 1964.

Criticism[edit]

  • Mounadaacheya Maatu, 2007.
  • Nalkaneya Sahitya Charitre, 2005.
  • Mattondu Sahitya Charitre, 2002, 2004.
  • Bendreyavara Kavyada Vibhinna Nelegalu, 1989, 1998,
  • Adigaru Mattu Navyakavya, 1968, 75, 98, 2006 (Reserved).
  • Innondu Sahitya Charitre, 1999.
  • Heegondu Sahitya Charitre, 1995.
  • Vimarsheya Dariyalli, 1994.
  • Kavya Endarenu, 1994.

Children's books[edit]

  • Dakkanakka Dakkana, 2005.
  • Dhruva Mattu Prahlada, 2003.
  • Didilak Didilak, 2002.
  • Goobeya Kathe, 2000, 2003.
  • Ili Maduve, 1999.
  • Galipata, 1999, 2004.
  • Sahasa (a Novel), serialised in 1978, in book form 1979, 1998.
  • Hannondu Hamsagalu (a Play), 1987.

Short stories[edit]

  • Sthithaprajna, 1996.
  • Aayda Kathegalu, 1992 (Textbook for B.A., BSc and B.Com. students of Bangalore University 1992–1993).
  • Gili Mattu Dumbi, 1985.
  • Karkotaka, 1975, 1998.
(Some of the stories have been translated into Bengali,Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, Oriya and English).

Translations[edit]

From English to Kannada
  • Radhanath Ray, 1991 – Sahitya Akademi.
  • Sindhi Sahitya Charitre, 1981 – Sahitya Akademi.
  • Dickens 'Hard Times', 1981 (with Venugopala Soraba).
  • Aristophane's 'Birds', 1990.
  • Ruskin's 'Unto The Last', 1979.
  • Strindberg's 'Miss Julie', 1979.
  • Ionesco's 'Bokka Taleya Nartaki', 1974.
From Bengali to Kannada
  • Tagore's 'Tin Sangi', 1998.
  • Nirendranath Chakravarthi's 'Ulang Raja', 1996.
  • Poems from Bengal, 2002.

Books published in English[edit]

  • Selected poems of Gopalaksirhna Adiga; Sahitya Akademi, 2005
  • Veerappa Moily's novel 'On to the Great Beyond', 2003
  • The Buddha Smile with P. Sreenivas Rao
  • A House of Thousand Doors
  • Poems of G. S. Shivarudrappa
  • 20th Century Kannada Poetry with an introduction by Nissim Ezekiel.
  • Selected Kannada Short Stories and Jnanapeeth Laureatres of Karnataka (with L. S. Seshagiri Rao),
  • Roots and Wings (Poems of P. Sreenivasa Rao), 2007
  • Complete works of P. Sreenivasa Rao, 2002
  • Critical Studies of S. L. Bhyrappa's Works, 2002

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