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'''Tumkur Sunandamma''' ( | '''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]]. | ||
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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= | 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/ | <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> | ||
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| Born | 1917 Tumkur, India |
| Died | 27 January 2006 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Comic |
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[edit | edit source]
Sunandamma was born in Tumkur, Mysore in 1917.[1] She belonged to a distinguished family of the Kingdom of Mysore, her father T. Ramaiah being a senior civil servant.[2]
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.[3]
Career[edit | edit source]
Sunandamma began writing poetry for a children's magazine, Makkala Pustaka[1], while still a child. At the age of 25, her articles began to appear in the newly established humour magazine Koravanji, receiving critical praise.[1][3]
When she moved to Bangalore, her observations of the middle-class lives of her neighbours, in particular the women of Basavangudi, began to inform her writings.[4] They were lauded as potent and pungent.[5]
Sunandamma wrote radio plays for All India Radio.[2] 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.[6] Heegadre hege? written by K. Y. Narayana Swamy and directed by Pramod Shiggaon, was performed in Bangalore in October 2011.[7]
Honours[edit | edit source]
Sunandamma was the first writer to receive the Daana Chintamani Attimabbe Award in 1995 by Karnataka Government.[8] In 1979, Sunandamma was elected the first president of the Karnataka Lekhakiyara Sangha (Karnataka Women Writers' Association).[9] She received the Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award in 1981.[1] In 2004, she was awarded the Anupama Prasasti, a literary award from the Karnataka Women Writers' Association.[10] [11]
Selected works[edit | edit source]
- Jambhada cheela
- Bannada chitte
- Pepparamentu
- Muttina chenda
- Ruuddi gaadi
- Vriksha vahana
- Nanna attegiri
- Dr M. Shivaram – a biography
- Tenali Ramakrishnan – a children's biography
- Samaya Sindu
- Kanyamanigalige Kanthupithana Daye. ISBN 978-81728-6577-1.
- Y. N. Gundu Rao, ed. (2006). Best of Sunandamma. Ankita.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mohan Lal, ed. (1992). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Sasay to Zorgot. Vol. V. Sahitya Akademi. p. 4224. ISBN 978-81-260-1221-3.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "T. Sunandamma is dead". The Hindu. 29 January 2006.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bageshree S. (3 February 2006). "Grandmom of laughter". The Hindu.
- ↑ Ammu Joseph (2003). Storylines: Conversations with Women Writers. Women's World India and Asmita Resource Centre for Women. p. 274.
- ↑ The Illustrated Weekly of India. Vol. 102. Bennett, Coleman & Company. October 1981. p. 37.
- ↑ "A happy couple and time pass". Mid-Day. 6 October 2008.
- ↑ "In Brief: Kannada play". Deccan Herald. 21 October 2011.
- ↑ "Daana Chintamani Attimabbe Awards". Department of Kannada and Culture Official website of Government of Karnataka. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
- ↑ Prathibha Nandakumar (8 November 2013). "Sangha for the women writers". Bangalore Mirror.
- ↑ "Sunandamma bags award". The Times of India. 17 May 2004.
- ↑ "Women writers in Kannada get noticed, by The New Indian Express". July 2014.