K. S. Narasimhaswamy
Kikkeri Subbarao Narasimhaswamy (26 January 1915 – 27 December 2003) was an Indian poet who wrote in Kannada language. His most popular collection of poems, Mysooru Mallige, has seen more than thirty-two reprints and is sometimes given to newly married couples in Karnataka. Narasimhaswamy is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Kannada sahitya Academy Award, and the Asian Prize for literature.
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- Name
- K.
- Born
- 26 January 1915
- Birthplace
- Kikkeri, Mysore district, Kingdom of Mysore, British India (now Mandya district, Karnataka, India)
- Died
- 27 December 2003
- Place of death
- Bangalore, India
- Occupation
- Poet
- Awards
- National Film Award for Best Lyrics –1991 Pampa Award – 1995
- Nationality
- India · British Raj · Dominion of India
- Known for
- Tereda Baagilu
- Honours
- Sahitya Akademi Award in Kannada
- Languages
- Kannada
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Kikkeri Subbarao Narasimhaswamy (26 January 1915 – 27 December 2003) was an Indian poet who wrote in Kannada language. His most popular collection of poems, Mysooru Mallige, has seen more than thirty-two reprints and is sometimes given to newly married couples in Karnataka. Narasimhaswamy is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Kannada sahitya Academy Award, and the Asian Prize for literature.
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K. S. Narasimhaswamy (1915–2003) was a poet and writer and a national of the British Raj and the Dominion of India. The poet died in Bengaluru.
Works include Tereda Baagilu. Languages used include Kannada. K. S. Narasimhaswamy received Sahitya Akademi Award in Kannada.
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• Name — K. S. Narasimhaswamy • Born — 26 January 1915 • Birthplace — Kikkeri, Mysore district, Kingdom of Mysore, British India (now Mandya district, Karnataka, India) • Died — 27 December 2003 • Place of death — Bangalore, India • Occupation — Poet • Period — Navodaya, Romantic movement • Awards — National Film Award for Best Lyrics –1991 Pampa Award – 1995
Early life
Early life
Narasimhaswamy was born in Kikkeri in Mandya district. He abandoned studies after his father, who wanted him to become an engineer, died, and took up a job of a clerk in a municipal office in Mysore. However, in 1934, he joined the Central College in Bangalore, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. He was transferred to Bangalore in 1954 and retired as a superintendent in the Karnataka Housing Board in the 1970s. He married Venkamma in Tiptur in 1936. He often portrayed his wife as the inspiration for his poems which mainly deal with romance in married life.
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Narasimhaswamy's first work as a writer that was published was Mysooru Mallige, a collection of poems, in 1942. It celebrated the blossoming of love between a newly married couple. He was influenced by English Romanticism, in particular, B. M. Srikantaiah's English Geethegalu (1926), a translation of English poems of the genre. Narasimhaswamy's romantic love poems, inspired by Robert Burns (whose work he translated to Kannada as Robert Burnsna Premageetegalu) were unique to the language at the time when most Kannada poetry dealt with nature and the natural world.
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Translations
• Media (1966) • Robert Burns Kaviya kelavu Premageetegalu (1997) • Kelavu Chinee Kavanagalu (1997)
Prose
Prose
• Maariya Kallu (1942) • Upavana (1958) • Damayanthi (1960) • Sirimallige (1990)
Poetry collections
• Mysooru Mallige (1942) • Ungura (1942) • Airaavatha (1945) • Deepada Malli (1947) • Iruvanthige (1952) • Shilaalathe (1958) • Maneyinda Manege (1960) • Tereda Baagilu (1976) • Navapallava (1983) • Malligeya Maale (1986, 2004) • Dundu Mallige (1993) • Navila Dani (1999) • Sanje Haadu (2000) • Kaimarada Nelalalli (2001) • Ede Thumba Nakshtra (2002) • Mounadali Maatha Hudukutha (2003) • Deepa Saalina Naduve (2003) • Haadu-Hase (A Collection of songs) (2003) • Ikkala • Dandu Mallige
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- 1.Narasimhaswamy passes away. The Times of India. 29 December 2003.
- 2.Mysore Samachar. 'Mysore Mallige' K.S.Narasimhaswamy is dead. Online webpage of Mysore Samachar.
- 3.A poet who was inspired by satire and folklore. The Hindu. 29 December 2003.
- 4.Deccan Herald. A people's poet as well as a romantic. 29 December 2003.
- 5.Shrikanth, Shubha. Poet with a Bosom Full of Stars. Deccan Herald. 15 September 2002.
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