Subramanyaraje Urs (1916 – 19 October 1998), known by his pseudonym Chaduranga, was an Indian writer in

Kannada language Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native sp ...

. He wrote four novels—''Sarvamangala'', ''Uyyale'', ''Vaishakha'', and ''Hejjala''—and a few other short stories. Chaduranga directed the on-screen version of ''

Sarvamangala ''Sarvamangala'' is a 1968 Indian Kannada-language film, directed by Chaduranga based on his own novel of the same name. The film was produced by Doddammanni Urs. The film stars Rajkumar, K. S. Ashwath, Kalpana and Sampath. The film has musica ...

'' in 1968 while ''Uyyale'' was made into a movie of same name in 1969.

Awards

Chaduranga was honoured with the State

Sahitya Academy Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

in 1982, the

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

State Rajyotsava award, the Central Sahitya Academy award, and an honorary doctorate by the

Mysore University The University of Mysore is a public state university in Mysore, Karnataka, India. The university was founded during the reign of Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV, the Maharaja of Mysore. The university is recognised by the University Grants Commission ...

in 1993.

References

External links

Remembering ''Chaduranga''
* {{Authority control Indian male novelists 1916 births 1998 deaths Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Kannada 20th-century Indian novelists Writers from Mysore Novelists from Karnataka 20th-century Indian male writers