Gourish Kaikini

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Gourish Kaikini
Native name
ಗೌರೀಶ ಕಾಯ್ಕಿಣಿ
Born(1912-09-12)12 September 1912
Gokarna
Died14 November 2002(2002-11-14) (aged 90)
Gokarna
Pen name
  • Vaishwanara
  • Gourishankara
  • Aduge bhatta
  • GVK
[citation needed]
OccupationLitterateur,
Teacher,
Philosopher[citation needed]
Language
  • Kannada
  • Konkani
  • Marathi
  • English
Alma mater
  • Karnataka College, Dharawad
Notable awardsSahitya Academy award,[citation needed]
Rajyotsava Award
Spouse
Shanthabai
(
m. 1953)

Gourish Kaikini (12 September 1912 – 14 November 2002) was a teacher and Kannada litterateur. He received many awards including the Sahitya Academy award[citation needed] and the Rajyotsava Award given by the government of Karnataka. He also wrote in Marathi and Konkani.

Early life[edit]

Gourish Kaikini was born on 12 September 1912. He graduated from Dharwad, and served as a high-school teacher at Anandashram High School, Bankikodla and Bhadrakali High School, Gokarna from 1937 to 1976. He married Shantabai in 1953.[1] His son Jayant Kaikini is a poet and writer in the Kannada literature.

Works[edit]

Gourish Kaikini wrote a total of 62 books, most of them in Kannada and Marathi.[2] He has written novels as well as poetry collections. He served as a writer and a columnist for several newspapers and periodicals.[3] His style of writing attracted widespread acclaim.[1] Dialectic between tradition and modernity has been Kaikin's central concern.[4]

Kaikini, who initially wrote in Marathi, started writing in Kannada in the latter part of the 1930s. His popular works include Navamanavathavaada, Nasthika Mathu Devaru, Manovignanada Roopureshegalu, and Sathyarthi.[citation needed]

Awards and honors[edit]

Kaikini has been honored with number of awards. He was honored with the Ideal Teacher award in 1973. He was bestowed with the diamond jubilee award of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat, Vardhamana Prashasti, Sahitya Academy Award[citation needed], Karnatak University's honorary doctorate degree, Karnataka Rajyotstava Prashasti, Dr Sham Bha Forum Prashanti, Mangalore Sandesh Prashanti and Konkani Sahitya Prashasti for his Konkani work Meenakshi.[1] An organization has been set up in his name and writers in Kannada literature are conferred with awards every year from the organization.[4]

Major works[edit]

Kaikini's major works include Navamanavathavaada, Nasthika Mathu Devaru, Manovignanada Roopureshegalu[5] and Sathyarthi.[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Litterateur Gourish Kaikini is dead". The Times of India. 14 November 2002. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  2. "Gourish Kaikini's centenary to commence on Monday". The Hindu. Special Correspondent. 7 September 2011. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 6 September 2021.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. Delhi, Publications Division (India), New (17 November 1963). AKASHVANI: Vol. XXVIII. No. 46 ( 17 NOVEMBER, 1963 ). Publications Division (India),New Delhi.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Kannada litterateur Kaikini remembered". Deccan Herald. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 21 July 2007.
  5. "Manovignanada Roopureshegalu". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
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