Books of India: Kannada

Check in every Tuesday for a new set of five! This week's collection includes Krauncha Pakshigalu by Vaidehi and Siddalingiah Ooru Keri by Siddalingaiah among others.


Kereya Neraanu Kerege Chelli by P. Lankesh

Unknown Publisher

Lankesh's debuted with a short story collection, the first of five, decades before he established the influential tabloid, Lankesh Patrike.


Krauncha Pakshigalu by Vaidehi
Translated as Krauncha Pakshigalu and other stories by Susheela Punitha

Akshara Prakashana

Janaki Srinivasa Murthy, popularly known as Vaidehi, received the Sahitya Akademi Award for this short story collection. She writes in the Kundapur Kannada dialect.


Siddalingiah Ooru Keri by Siddalingaiah 
Translated as A Word with You, World: The Autobiography of a Poet by S. R. Ramakrishna 

Navayana (2013)

Stepping away from the prosaic quality of autobiographies, Siddalingaiah moves the reader as he journeys from the Dalit colony at the edge of his hometown to the hostels in the city.


Hemanthagaana by Vyasaraya Ballal

Navakarnataka Prakaashana (2005 edition)

The story of Anatha Udupa, a man married to Bharathi, who falls in love with a freedom fighter named Indira.


Gangavva Gangamayi by Shankar Mokashi Punekar

Abhinava

The novel is driven by the implications of a bitter rivalry between Gangavva, widow, and her brother, whom she holds responsible for her husband's death.


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