Panchakshari Hiremath (born 1933) is a writer and noted poet, short story writer, essayist, critic, translator, orator, editor and freedom fighter who writes in
Kannada,
Urdu and
Hindi. In 2005, he won the Kendra
Sahitya Akademi Award for translation.
Early life
Hiremath was born at Bisarahalli,
Koppal District in
Karnataka. He was actively involved in the freedom struggle of Hyderabad Karnataka. He worked as a professor in
Karnataka University and
Karnatak College, Dharwad. His first collection of poems appeared in 1959.
Hiremath is most famous as a Poet. He is a strong opponent of division of Indian society on the basis of language. Hiremath strongly opposed dividing the society on the basis of language. Some of Hiremath's own works have been translated into Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi, Nepali, English, Spanish, French and German.
Awards
2010 'Goenka Hindi Sahitya Sarswata Sammana' Awarded by Kamala Goenka Foundation, Bangalore.
In 2005, Hiremath won the Kendra
Sahitya Akademi Award for translating
Qurratulain Hyder Urdu short stories
Patjhar Ki Awaz to Kannada. The translated collection was titled
Hemantha Ruthuvina Swaragalu.
In 2003, Hiremath won The Gorur Foundation Trust's award for Poetry. He has also won many other awards including the Soviet Land Nehru Award, the Karnataka...
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