Adya Rangacharya
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Born | (1904-09-26)26 September 1904 Agarkhed, Bijapur district, Karnataka |
Died | 17 October 1984(1984-10-17) (aged 79) Karnataka, India |
Pen name | Sriranga |
Occupation | Poet, novelist, playwright, translator, actor, critic, scholar |
Language | Kannada |
Nationality | Indian |
Notable awards | Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1967) Sahitya Akademi Award (1971) Padma Bhushan (1972) |
Spouse | Sharada[1] |
Children | Shashi Deshpande[2] Usha Desai[3] |
Adya Rangacharya (26 September 1904 – 17 October 1984), popularly known by his pen name Sriranga, was an Indian Kannada writer, actor and scholar, and a member of the Adya Jahagirdar family.[4] He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1967 and the Sahitya Akademi Award for literature in 1971 for Kalidasa, a literary criticism in Kannada.
He was a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.[5]
Rangacharya's works include twelve novels and a number of scholarly books on the Theatre, on Sanskrit drama and the Bhagavadgita. He also wrote 71 plays and acted in 47.[4] Besides a translation of Natyasastra,[6] his other works in English include Drama in Sanskrit Literature, Indian Theatre, Introduction to Bharata’s Natyasastra, and Introduction to the Comparative Philosophy and Indo-Aryan Languages. He use the pseudonym Sriranga when writing most of his plays and literary work.[4]
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