Gudibande Poornima (Dr. S.P Poornima) is a

Kannada 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 s ...

poet, writer and novelist from the State of

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. Born in

Shravanabelagola Shravanabelagola () is a town located near Channarayapatna of Hassan district in the Indian state of Karnataka and is from Bengaluru. The Gommateshwara Bahubali statue at Shravanabelagola is one of the most important tirthas (pilgrimage des ...

Hassan District Hassan is one of the districts of Karnataka, 31 districts of Karnataka, India. The district headquarter is Hassan, Karnataka, Hassan. It was carved out from Mysore district in the year 1866, during the Commissioner's Rule of Mysore (1831-81). ...

, Poornima holds a master's degree in Kannada literature from

Bangalore University Bangalore University (BU) is a public state university located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The university is a part of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and affiliated by Univers ...

, master's degree in Prakrit and Docotorate degree in Jainalogy from Mysore University. She was the president of the district

Kannada Sahitya Parishat Kannada Saahithya Parishath ( kn, ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಪರಿಷತ್ತು, Kannaḍa Sāhitya Pariṣattu; ) is an Indian non-profit organisation that promotes the Kannada language and its literature. Its headquarters are ...

in 1982–3. She has published more than 60 books in Kannada in various categories of literature - novels, poem collections, article collections, research, biographies, etc. She has published more than 100 research papers, articles in many Kannada magazines, newspapers and journals. She has also presided the Chikkaballapura District Kannada Sahitya Sammelana, held in Shidlaghatta in the year 2013.

Awards and honours

Gudibande poornima has won many awards like,

Sahitya Akademi 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 ...

, Shri Gomateshwara Vidyapeetha award, Mallika award, Sharada Seva Shree, etc. The Karanataka Lekhakiyara Sangha, an organization and association of women writers has established a yearly award in her name which is called as "The Gudibande Poornima awards for poets" is given to prominent

Women poets every year.The Hindu : Karnataka News : Anupama Award presented to Sunandamma
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References

1951 births Living people Kannada-language writers People from Hassan district Indian women poets Women writers from Karnataka Poets from Karnataka {{india-writer-stub