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Towering litterateur By Navhind Times - 2025-09-25 0 3 Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp

New-age Kannada writers have to carry ahead the legacy of seniors, including Bhyrappa

S. L. Bhyrappa, who passed away at the ripe old age of 94, is one of the colossal Kannada literary personalities known for his novels that have enthralled the readers for the past 7 decades. Widely regarded as one of modern India’s popular novelists, his first work, written exactly 70 years ago – ‘Gathaanma Matteradu Kathegalu’ (1955), which is a compilation of 3 short stories dating back to his high school days – captivated the readers just as his final novel, ‘Uttarakaanda’ (2017), based on the epic ‘Ramayana’, moved them.

Bhyrappa, whose works were unique

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