Awards
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Bala Sahitya Puraskara by
Sahitya Akademi in 2016 • 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 – October 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 ==
Academic and professional experience
• 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. ==Literary works==
Literary works
Books published in Kannada Poetry • 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 Criticism • 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 • 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 • 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. Translations 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 • 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 ==See also==