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Nataka academy awards announced

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BANGALORE: The Karnataka Nataka Academy has selected the Gadag based Sri Sri Kumareshwara Kripaposhita Panchakshari Gayaviyavara Natya Sangha for the prestigious K. Hirannaiah Award for 2007.

It has selected four persons for the CGK Yuvaranga Puraskar and 15 others for the 2007 academy awards.

It has conferred the honorary award for 2007 on the Mysore-based playwright and translator of plays K. S. Bhagavan.

The honorary award and K. Hirannaiah Award, annual awards and puraskar carry a cash prize of Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 5,000 and Rs. 3,000 respectively and a memento, citation and shawl each.

Announcing the awards, academy chairman Srinivas G. Kappanna said that the sangha had been selected for the annual award in recognition of its services to Kannada professional theatre for over two decades.

The academy had conferred the honorary award on Prof. Bhagavan in recognition of his contribution to Kannada theatre trough translation. Prof. Bhgavan taught literature for over 37 years in the University of Mysore.

He has authored over 40 books in Kannada and translated Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice, Othello, King Lear and As You Like It into Kannada, Mr. Kappanna said.

The awards would be presented on March 27 in the city. Release of two theatre music cassettes of the theatre person Enagi Balappa and 50 plays in two volumes edited by the president of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat and playwright Chandrashekhara Patil and S. Malathi and the late Chi Srinivasa Raju and Na. Damodara Shetty would mark the occasion , he said.

The first volume contains 24 plays belonging to the genre of one-act plays by big names in Kannada literature such as Kadangodlu Shankara Bhatta, Govinda Pai, T.P. Kailasam, Sriranga, Aa.Na. Krishna Rao and Shankar Mokashi Punekar. The second volume contains regular plays authored by many renowned names, including B.M. Sri., Kuvempu, Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Parvathavani, Samsa, Pu.Ti.Na, Kandagal Hanumantha Rao, B. Puttaswamaiah, K. Hiriyanna, P. Lankesh and Girish Karnad.

The CGK Yuvaranga Award winners are: Sujatha Jangamashetty (Bidar district), K.H. Kumar (Bangalore), Umesh Tenkanahalli (Hassan) and Sripada Bhat (Haveri).

The winners of annual awards are: Pushpamala Annigeri (Dharwad), Jayaram Tatachar (Mysore), Altaf (Raichur), Na. Su. Nagesh ( Nagamangala- Mandya district), Sadashiva Brahmavar ( Belgaum), Rajamma Hegde (Bijapur), Madivalara Balappa (Bellary), Shanta Bhimasena Rao (Gulbarga), Shashidhar Barighat (Bangalore), Cindodi Shambhulingappa (Davangere), Rajendra Karantha (Bangalore), Guddappa (Chitradurga), K. Venkataraju (Chamarajanagar), B.I. Iligera (Dharwad) and B.S. Manjulamma ( Bangalore).

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