U. R. Ananthamurthy

Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy was born on 21 December 1932 in Melige, near Thirthahalli, into a conservative Brahmin family, and attended a Sanskrit school. Educated at the University of Mysore, where he taught English, he defended a thesis at Birmingham in 1966. A figure of the Navya movement, he was vice-chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala, president of the National Book Trust and of the Sahitya Akademi, received the Jnanpith Award and died in Bangalore on 22 August 2014.

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