H. M. Nayak

Harogadde Manappa Nayak (Kannada: ಹಾ.ಮಾ.ನಾಯಕ್, Ha Ma Nayak) (1931 - 10 November 2000) was an academician, writer and folklorist.

He was born in the village Harogadde, Shimoga district in Karnataka. He served as a lecturer, and then professor, at the Mysore University, before being appointed the Director of the Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies at the university. Appointed the Vice-chancellor of Gulbarga University on 2 November 1984, he served until 15 February 1987, when he resigned citing moral responsibility for examination malpractices.^[1]

H. M. Nayak died, following a heart attack, in Mysore.^[2] in the year 2000 at the age of 69.

Awards

He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1989, for the work Samprati.^[3]

Bibliography

• Namma Maneya Deepa, collection of essays
• Kannada Vratha
• Karnataka (1992)
• South Indian Studies (edited with B R Gopal, 1990)
• Samprati (1988)
• Soolangi, a collection of thirty reflective essays (1985)
• Epic in Indian literature (1985)
• Impact of Marxism on Indian life and literature - proceedings of a national seminar (editor, 1972)
• Janapada Swarupa, collection of essays on the nature and scope of folklore (1971)
• Kannada - Literary and Colloquial, a study of two styles (1967)

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