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| name = Niranjana<br />
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| birth_name = Kulakunda Shiva Rao<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|06|15|df=yes}}<br />
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1992|03|13|1924|06|15|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Hyderabad]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], India<br />
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| occupation = Writer, Novelist<br />
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| spouse = [[Anupama Niranjana]]<br />
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'''Kulakunda Shiva Rao''' (15 June 1924 – 13 March 1992), popularly known as '''Niranjana''', was a [[Kannada language|Kannada]] playwright, novelist and a freedom fighter.<ref name="Lal2006">{{cite book|author=Mohan Lal|title=The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume Five (Sasay To Zorgot)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C&pg=PA4048|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1221-3|pages=4048–}}</ref><ref name="Niranjana1995">{{cite book|author=A. Niranjana|title=Coming Forth by Day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhWESZO1mPEC&pg=PP5|date=1 January 1995|publisher=University of Nevada Press|isbn=978-0-86311-459-5|pages=5–}}</ref> The hardships faced during childhood shaped Niranjana's later literary career.<br />
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== Writing career ==<br />
Niranjana wrote more than sixty books.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} His first published novel was ''Vimochane'' (''Wait for the moon'') published in 1953. Some of his other notable works are— ''Chirasmarane'', and ''Mrityunjaya''. He also edited Kannada translation of ''Vishwa Katha Kosha'' (''A Treasury of World Short Stories'').<ref name=Niranjana1995 /> He also translated a number of works into Kannada language.<ref name="BassnettEditor)2012">{{cite book|author1=Susan Bassnett|author2=Susan Bassnett (S Editor)|author3=Harish Trivedi|title=Postcolonial Translation: Theory and Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K8YJkxXSKnIC&pg=PA179|date=12 October 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-75498-4|pages=179–}}</ref><br />
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Niranjana was attracted to Marxism during his youth and was an active member of the [[Communist Party of India]].{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} He became disillusioned later and left it but still continued to raise his voice for the downtrodden and oppressed through his writings. He suffered a stroke in 1971 when he was at his zenith of writing career. He wrote ''Mrityunjaya'' in 1976. ''Chirasmarane'' is based on the historic [[Kayyur]] incident of the 1940s in Kasaragod district where peasants rose against local landlords. ''Chirasmarane'' was adapted into a 1986 Malayalam movie ''[[Meenamasathile Sooryan]]'' by [[Lenin Rajendran]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/south-masala/prominent-malayalam-film-director-lenin-rajendran-passes-away/articleshow/67531413.cms|title = Prominent Malayalam film director Lenin Rajendran passes away}}</ref><br />
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He edited ''Vishwa Katha Kosha'', a 25-volume work which made stories from around the world available in Kannada and also worked as an editor to bring out the ''Kannada Jnana Kosha''.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}<br />
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Niranjana married Venkata Lakshmi, who later become a writer (with the pen name [[Anupama Niranjana]]).{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} They have two daughters, Seemanthini and Tejaswini. His wife died of cancer in 1991. Niranjana died a year later, on 13 March 1992 in [[Hyderabad]], due to illness.<ref>{{cite web|title=Niranjana dead|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aZBlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lJ4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2464%2C2536074|newspaper=The Indian Express|accessdate=26 April 2017|page=1|date=14 March 1992}}</ref><br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
* ''Vimochane'' (Wait for the Moon''<ref name="Wait for the moon">{{cite web | url=https://www.amazon.com/Wait-Moon-Niranjana-ebook/dp/B00P1SR3FQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414917782&sr=1-2&keywords=niranjana | title=Wait for the moon | accessdate=2 November 2014 | author=Niranjana| website=Amazon }}</ref>'', first novel)<br />
* ''Chirasmarane'' (1955)<br />
* ''Mrtyunjaya'' (1976)<br />
* ''Vishwa Katha Kosha'' (''A Treasury of World Short Stories'',editor)<br />
* ''Kalyaanaswamy'' (Novel)<ref name="Kalyaanaswaamy (Novel)">{{cite web | url=http://www.totalkannada.com/products/books/novels-others/kalyaanaswaamy | title=Kalyaanaswaamy | publisher=Dvk Murthy Publications | date=1956 | accessdate=2 November 2014 | author=Niranjana | pages=212 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102110921/http://www.totalkannada.com/products/books/novels-others/kalyaanaswaamy | archive-date=2 November 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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== Awards and honours ==<br />
Niranjana received these awards and honours—<ref name=Niranjana1995 /><br />
* [[Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award|Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award]]{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}<br />
* Nehru Soviet Land Award{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}<br />
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[[Category:1924 births]]<br />
[[Category:1992 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Kannada-language writers]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian translators]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Hyderabad, India]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian novelists]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian short story writers]]<br />
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