Anupama Niranjana

Anupama Niranjana
Born	Venkatalakshmi 1934 (1934) Tirthahalli, India
Died	1991 (aged 56–57)
Occupation(s)	Doctor, writer
Spouse	Niranjana

Anupama Niranjana (1934–1991)[1] was a doctor in India and writer of modern Kannada fiction and non-fiction.

She advocated the woman's point of view and was one among such writers in Kannada, which includes others like Triveni and M. K. Indira. Her novel Runamuktalu was made into a film by Puttanna Kanagal.[2]

Born Venkatalakshmi, Anupama practiced as a physician in Dharwad and Bangalore. Anupama took to writing early in life and wrote several novels and stories dealing with social issues, particularly women's issue.[3] She was married to the Kannada writer Niranjana, a novelist of the Progressive school of modern Kannada literature. Their daughters Tejaswini and Seemanthini are academics.

Anupama died of cancer.^[citation needed] An award has been instituted in her name for women writing in Kannada.[4]

Major works

• Anantha Geetha
• Shwetambari
• Sneha Pallavi
• Runamuktalu
• Kanmani
• Odalu
• Nenapu: Sihi-Kahi
• Kallola
• Aala
• Mukti Chitra
• Madhavi
• Ghosha
• Nati
• Moolamukhi (last novel)
• Cancer Jagattu
• Taayi magu
• Dinakkondu kathe (collection of children's stories)

Major awards

• Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award^[citation needed]
• Soviet Land Nehru Award^[citation needed]
• Kannada Rajyotsava

References

1. Tharu, Susie; Lalita, K., eds. (1991). Women writing in India: 600 B.C. to the present. Vol. II: The Twentieth Century. New York: the Feminist press at the City University of New York. p. 382-383. ISBN 1-55861-026-X.
2. Photo on Kamat's Potpourri
3. One of her stories
4. Anupama Award