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U. R. Ananthamurthy

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 8

TMDB ID: 1330365

Known for: Writing

Born: December 21, 1932

Died: August 22, 2014

Age: 81

Place of birth: Thirthahalli, Karnataka, India

Gender: Male

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Career span: 1970 - 2008

Years active: 39

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Biography

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (21 December 1932 – 22 August 2014) was an Indian contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language. He was born in Thirtahalli Taluk and is considered one of the pioneers of the Navya movement. In 1994, he became the sixth Kannada writer to be honored with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India. In 1998, he received the Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India.[4] He was the vice-chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala during the late 1980s.

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