Sumatheendra R Nadig

Nadig's "Dampatya Gita" has been translated into English, Hindi, Bengali and other Indian languages. His other major poem, "Panchabhut", is considered to be an important and original contribution to modern Indian literature. His poetic achievement has been acknowledged by poets including Gopalakrishna Adiga, Pu. Narasimhachar, Ayyappa Panikar, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Manohar Rai Sardesai, and G. Shivrudrappa; writers including S. Bhyrappa and U. Anantha Murthy; and scholars including Kapila Vatsyayan and Sibnarayan Ray. Nadig had two master's degrees in English, one from Mysore University and the other from Temple University (US). He also received a PhD in Kannada from Bangalore University and an honorary doctorate, "Shabda Marthand", from Gurukul Kangri University, Hardwar. He had received many awards, including the Karnataka Rajyothsava Prashsti, Dinakara Pratisthana Prashasti, V. Inamdar Prashsti, and M.V.Si. He was the Chairman of National Book Trust from 1996 to 1999. He was 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. He knew Kannada, English, Hindi, Marathi, Konkani, and Bengali.

• Name — Sumatheendra R Nadig • Born — 4 May 1935 • Birthplace — Kalasa, a village in Chickamagalur District, Karnataka, British Raj • Died — 7 August 2018 • Place of death — Bengaluru, India • Occupation — Professor, writer • Movement — Navya

Sumatheendra Nadig was married to Malathi and had three children. He died on 7 August 2018, at the age of 83.

• Visiting Professor, Viswa-Bharati, Shantiniketan, October–December 1997 • Visiting Fellow, Jadhavpur University, Calcutta, 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, 1965–197 • Visiting Professor, Bombay University Post-Graduate Centre, Panjim, Goa, 1965–1971. • Lecturer in English at Margo, Bombay and Belgaum, 1957–65.

• 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, and Marathi) • Bhava Loka, 1983 • Udghatane, 1978 • Kappu Devate, 1970 • Nimma Premakumariya Jataka, 1964

• 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 his stories have been translated into Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, Oriya and English.

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

• 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

• 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