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Prathibha Nandakumar

Prathibha Nandakumar is a leading Kannada poet, journalist, film maker, columnist, and translator. Her publications include 14 collections of poems, two collections of short stories, three biographies, and one autobiography. She has also published poems in English and has translated from English and Dogri. She has received several awards including the Karnataka Sahitya Academy Book Award (2014), Mahadevi Verma Kavya Samman (2003), and Hoogar Memorial Award for Journalism (2006). She was a Sahitya Akademi delegate to China (2009), a member of the writers’ delegation to Sweden (1997), and was invited to present her work at Asian Writers’ Conference, Helisinki, Finland (1998)
Year: 2018