Girish karnad

                  

           

Girish karnad 

                        Girish karnad was born on 19 may 1938 and died in 10 June 2019 and was one of the greatest of living dramatists in India. He was a versatile genius, very good actor and has acted not only on the stage of the theater, but also in a number of first movies and also made frequent appearances on the small screen TV. Therefore written in kannada and then was translated into English and it once parachuted him to the first rank of Indo- Anglian dramatists.

                      Girish karnad originally wanted  to  be  a poet,  but  circumstances
made him a dramatists.  As he himself said that "I wanted to be a poet,  the greatest ambition in my life. At the age of 22, I realised I would not be a poet,  but only a playwright ......" when karnad started writing play, kannada literature was highly influenced by the Renaissance in western literature.  

     Another reason for his choosing to be playwright was that there were no good play in India. The influence of Shakespeare and the naturalistic drama of  Ibsen and  show also turned the scale.  He wrote many  books like  

       He got many awards and Honors for his contribution in literature as such