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	'''Tumkur Sunandamma''' (~~{{lang-kn\|ಟಿ. ಸುನಂದಮ್ಮ}},~~ born [[Tumkur]], 1917 – died [[Bangalore]], 27 January 2006) was an Indian writer and humorist in the [[Kannada]] language. She was a recipient of the [[Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award]].		'''Tumkur Sunandamma''' (born [[Tumkur]], 1917 – died [[Bangalore]], 27 January 2006) was an Indian writer and humorist in the [[Kannada]] language. She was a recipient of the [[Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award]].

	==Early life==		==Early life==
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	==Honours==		==Honours==
	Sunandamma was the first writer to receive the [[Daana Chintamani Attimabbe Award]] in 1995 by [[Karnataka Government]].<ref name="ATTIMABBE">{{Cite web\|url=https://karnataka.gov.in/page/Awards/State+Awards/Daana+Chintamani+Attimabbe+Awards/en\|title=Daana Chintamani Attimabbe Awards\|website=Department of Kannada and Culture Official website of Government of Karnataka\|access-date=23 Oct 2020}}</ref>		Sunandamma was the first writer to receive the [[Daana Chintamani Attimabbe Award]] in 1995 by [[Karnataka Government]].<ref name="ATTIMABBE">{{Cite web\|url=https://karnataka.gov.in/page/Awards/State+Awards/Daana+Chintamani+Attimabbe+Awards/en\|title=Daana Chintamani Attimabbe Awards\|website=Department of Kannada and Culture Official website of Government of Karnataka\|access-date=23 Oct 2020}}</ref>
	In 1979, Sunandamma was elected the first president of the Karnataka Lekhakiyara Sangha (Karnataka Women Writers' Association).<ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=Bangalore Mirror\|url=~~http~~://~~www~~.~~bangaloremirror~~.com/entertainment/lounge/Sangha-for-the-women-writers/articleshow/25451931.cms\|date=8 November 2013\|author=Prathibha Nandakumar\|title=Sangha for the women writers}}</ref> She received the [[Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award]] in 1981.<ref name=Lal1992/> In 2004, she was awarded the Anupama Prasasti, a literary award from the Karnataka Women Writers' Association.<ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=The Times of India\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Sunandamma-bags-award/articleshow/679449.cms\|title=Sunandamma bags award\|date=17 May 2004}}</ref>		In 1979, Sunandamma was elected the first president of the Karnataka Lekhakiyara Sangha (Karnataka Women Writers' Association).<ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=Bangalore Mirror\|url=https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/lounge/Sangha-for-the-women-writers/articleshow/25451931.cms\|date=8 November 2013\|author=Prathibha Nandakumar\|title=Sangha for the women writers}}</ref> She received the [[Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award]] in 1981.<ref name=Lal1992/> In 2004, she was awarded the Anupama Prasasti, a literary award from the Karnataka Women Writers' Association.<ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=The Times of India\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Sunandamma-bags-award/articleshow/679449.cms\|title=Sunandamma bags award\|date=17 May 2004}}</ref>
	<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2014/jul/01/~~Women~~-writers-in-~~Kannada~~-get-noticed-630596.html \|title=Women writers in Kannada get noticed,by The New Indian Express}}</ref>		<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2014/jul/01/women-writers-in-kannada-get-noticed-630596.html \|title=Women writers in Kannada get noticed, by The New Indian Express\|date=July 2014 }}</ref>

	==Selected works==		==Selected works==
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{{short description|Indian writer and humorist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = T. Sunandamma
| image = [[File:T Sunandamma.png]]
| birth_place = [[Tumkur]], [[Karnataka]]
| birth_date = 1917
| death_date = 27 January 2006
| occupation = Writer
| genre = Comic
|}}
'''Tumkur Sunandamma''' ({{lang-kn|ಟಿ. ಸುನಂದಮ್ಮ}}, born [[Tumkur]], 1917 – died [[Bangalore]], 27 January 2006) was an Indian writer and humorist in the [[Kannada]] language. She was a recipient of the [[Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award]].

==Early life==
Sunandamma was born in Tumkur, Mysore in 1917.<ref name=Lal1992/> She belonged to a distinguished family of the [[Kingdom of Mysore]], her father T. Ramaiah being a senior civil servant.<ref name=hinduobit>{{cite news|newspaper=The Hindu|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/t-sunandamma-is-dead/article3246507.ece|title=T. Sunandamma is dead|date=29 January 2006}}</ref>

Despite social strictures against the education of girls at the time, she studied up to high school. The lone girl in her class, she outperformed the boys, leading to considerable pressure from their parents to have her removed from the school. She was married off at the age of 11.<ref name=hindu2006>{{cite news|newspaper=The Hindu|title=Grandmom of laughter|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/article3217066.ece|author=Bageshree S.|date=3 February 2006}}</ref>

==Career==
Sunandamma began writing [[poetry]] for a children's magazine, ''Makkala Pustaka''[https://archive.org/details/Makkala-Pustaka-1935], while still a child. At the age of 25, her articles began to appear in the newly established humour magazine ''Koravanji'', receiving critical praise.<ref name="Lal1992">{{cite book|editor=Mohan Lal|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C&pg=PA4224|volume=V|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1221-3|page=4224}}</ref><ref name=hindu2006/>

When she moved to [[Bangalore]], her observations of the [[Middle class|middle-class]] lives of her neighbours, in particular the women of [[Basavangudi]], began to inform her writings.<ref name="Joseph2003">{{cite book|author=Ammu Joseph|title=Storylines: Conversations with Women Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1t1jAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Women's World India and Asmita Resource Centre for Women|page=274}}</ref> They were lauded as ''potent and pungent''.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Illustrated Weekly of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O3Y6AQAAIAAJ|volume=102|date=October 1981|publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Company|page=37|number=4}}</ref>

Sunandamma wrote radio plays for [[All India Radio]].<ref name=hinduobit/> Several of her works were adapted by others for the theatre. ''All's well'', an English reworking from a Kannada play by Sundar based on Sunandamma's short story ''Aadaddella Olithe…?'' was directed Pramod Shiggaon and presented in 2008.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Mid-Day|url=http://archive.mid-day.com/news/2008/oct/061008-alls-well-comedy-plays-ranga-shankara-theatre-reviews.htm|title=A happy couple and time pass|date=6 October 2008}}</ref> ''Heegadre hege?'' written by K. Y. Narayana Swamy and directed by Pramod Shiggaon, was performed in Bangalore in October 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/199544/in-brief.html|newspaper=Deccan Herald|title=In Brief: Kannada play|date=21 October 2011}}</ref>

==Honours==
Sunandamma was the first writer to receive the [[Daana Chintamani Attimabbe Award]] in 1995 by [[Karnataka Government]].<ref name="ATTIMABBE">{{Cite web|url=https://karnataka.gov.in/page/Awards/State+Awards/Daana+Chintamani+Attimabbe+Awards/en|title=Daana Chintamani Attimabbe Awards|website=Department of Kannada and Culture Official website of Government of Karnataka|access-date=23 Oct 2020}}</ref>
In 1979, Sunandamma was elected the first president of the Karnataka Lekhakiyara Sangha (Karnataka Women Writers' Association).<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Bangalore Mirror|url=http://www.bangaloremirror.com/entertainment/lounge/Sangha-for-the-women-writers/articleshow/25451931.cms|date=8 November 2013|author=Prathibha Nandakumar|title=Sangha for the women writers}}</ref> She received the [[Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award]] in 1981.<ref name=Lal1992/> In 2004, she was awarded the Anupama Prasasti, a literary award from the Karnataka Women Writers' Association.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Times of India|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Sunandamma-bags-award/articleshow/679449.cms|title=Sunandamma bags award|date=17 May 2004}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2014/jul/01/Women-writers-in-Kannada-get-noticed-630596.html |title=Women writers in Kannada get noticed,by The New Indian Express}}</ref>

==Selected works==
* ''Jambhada cheela''
* ''Bannada chitte''
* ''Pepparamentu''
* ''Muttina chenda''
* ''Raddi gadi''
* ''Vriksha vahana''
* ''Nanna attegiri''
* ''Dr M. Shivaram'' – a biography
* ''Tenali Ramakrishnan'' – a children's biography
* ''Samaya Sindu''
* {{cite book|title=Kanyamanigalige Kanthupithana Daye|isbn= 978-81728-6577-1}}
* {{cite book|title=Best of Sunandamma|editor=Y. N. Gundu Rao|publisher=Ankita|date=2006}}

== References ==
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[[Category:Women writers from Karnataka]]
[[Category:Indian humorists]]
[[Category:Kannada-language writers]]
[[Category:1917 births]]
[[Category:2006 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Tumkur]]
[[Category:Women humorists]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian women writers]]
[[Category:Indian women children's writers]]
[[Category:Indian children's writers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]
[[Category:Indian women poets]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Poets from Karnataka]]
[[Category:Indian women dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Dramatists and playwrights from Karnataka]]