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Kuvempu

1904 - 1994

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Kuppalli Vemkatappa Puttappa (29 December 1904 – 11 November 1994), popularly known by his pen name Kuvempu , was an Indian poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He is widely regarded as the greatest Kannada poet of the 20th century. He was the first Kannada writer to receive the Jnanpith Award. Kuvempu studied at Mysuru University in the 1920s, taught there for nearly three decades and served as its vice-chancellor from 1956 to 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kuvempu is the 2,195th most popular writer (down from 1,534th in 2019), the 306th most popular biography from India (down from 198th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kuvempu ranks 2,195 out of 7,302. Before him are Sébastien Japrisot, Raymond E. Feist, Julian Tuwim, Anton Bernolák, Sven Nordqvist, and Christina Rossetti. After him are Lidia Zamenhof, Izumi Shikibu, Anne Applebaum, Bernardus Silvestris, Michel Leiris, and Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

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Among people born in 1904, Kuvempu ranks 105. Before him are Deng Yingchao, Achille Varzi, Edmond Hamilton, Christian-Jaque, Yevgenia Ginzburg, and Sergey Biryuzov. After him are Lidia Zamenhof, Attilio Ferraris, Jacques Tourneur, Arkady Gaidar, Ding Ling, and Felix Nussbaum. Among people deceased in 1994, Kuvempu ranks 111. Before him are Moana Pozzi, Christian-Jaque, Roberto Burle Marx, Massimo Troisi, Walter Lantz, and Marcel Bich. After him are Kevin Carter, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Mario Brega, Giovanni Spadolini, Antoine Pinay, and Dick Sargent.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kuvempu ranks 306 out of 1,861. Before him are Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876), Charan Singh (1902), Andal (800), Sankardev (1449), Guru Amar Das (1479), and Abdul Karim (1863). After him are Jaya Bachchan (1948), Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887), Michael Radford (1946), Shantanu (null), C. Rajagopalachari (1878), and Karamchand Gandhi (1822).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Kuvempu ranks 38. Before him are Mahadevi Varma (1907), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), Anna Leonowens (1831), Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876), Andal (800), and Sankardev (1449). After him are Dnyaneshwar (1275), Mir Taqi Mir (1723), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Shakuntala Devi (1929), Ibn Warraq (1946), and Idries Shah (1924).

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