Vaidehi

• Name — Vaidehi • Birth Name — Vasanti • Pen Name — Vaidehi • Born — 12 February 1945 • Birthplace — Kundapur, Udupi, Karnataka, British India • Occupation — Writer • Genre — Kannada fiction • Spouse — K.L. Srinivasa Murthy • Children — 2 • Awards — Sahitya Akademi Award

Vaidehi was born on 12 February 1945 to A. V. N. Hebbar (father) and Mahalakshmi (mother) in Kundapura taluk of Udupi district, Karnataka. She grew up in a large traditional Brahmin family. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Commerce from the Bhandarkar College in Kundapura. Her father is a lawyer and her mother was a homemaker. At home, a dialect of Kannada called Kundapur Kannada is spoken and she uses this dialect in her works as well. Vaidehi became her pen-name under unusual circumstances. Early in her writing career, she had sent a story to the Kannada weekly magazine Sudha for publication but later requested the publisher not to go ahead with the print as the story was non-fictional and included a real-life story. However, the editor went ahead with the publication by changing the author's name to 'Vaidehi'. This name stuck in her later writings as well as she gained popularity.

Vaidehi married K. L. Srinivasa Murthy at the age of 23. The couple has two daughters, Nayana Kashyap and Pallavi Rao. After marriage Vaidehi moved to Shivamogga. The family later moved to Udupi and then to Manipal, where they currently live. Vaidehi's daughter Nayana Kashyap is a translator, Kannada writer and English teacher. She has translated some of the Vaidehi's works into English including five novels.

• Asprushyaru (1992)

• Dham Dhoom Suntaragali • Mookana Makkalu • Gombe Macbeth • Danadangura • Nayimari Nataka • Kotu Gumma • Jhum Jham Aane Mathu Putta • Surya Banda • Ardhachandra Mitayi • Hakki Haadu • Somari Olya

• Nenapinangaladalli Mussanjehothu (life of Kota Lakshminarayana Karanth) • Sediyapu Nenapugalu - (life of Sediyapu Krishna Bhatta) • Illiralare allige hogalare - (life of B. V. Karanth)

• Bharathiya Mahileyara Swathanthra Horata (from Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya's "Indian women's freedom struggle") • Belliya Sankolegalu (from Maithreyi Mukkhopadhyaya's "Silver Shakles") • Surya Kinnariyau (from Swapna Dutta's "Sun Fairies") • Sangeetha Samvada (from Bhaskar Chandavarkar's "Lecture on Music")

• Mara Gida Balli (1979) • Antharangada Putagalu (1984) • Gola (1986) • Samaja Shastrajneya Tippanige (1991) • hagga Kate (1992) • Ammacchi Yemba Nenapu (2000) • Hagalu Geechida Nenta • Krouncha Pakshigalu Beautiful essays • Mallinathana Dhyana (1996) • Meju Mattu Badagi • Jatre

• tottilu tuguva hadu • Bindu Bindige (1990) • Parijatha (1999) • Hoova Kattuva Haadu (2011)