Vaidehi (Kannada writer)

Vaidehi
BornVasanti[1]
(1945-02-12) 12 February 1945 (age 79)
Kundapur, Udupi, Karnataka, British India
Pen nameVaidehi
OccupationWriter
NationalityIndian
GenreKannada fiction
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award
2009
PartnerK.L. Srinivasa Murthy
Children2

Janaki Srinivasa Murthy popularly known by her penname Vaidehi was born on 12 February 1945. She is an Indian feminist writer and well-known writer of modern Kannada language fiction. Vaidehi is one of the most successful women writers in the language and a recipient of prestigious national and state-level literary awards.[2] She has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for her collection of short stories, Krauncha Pakshigalu in 2009.[3]

  1. ^ "New Delhi Vaidehi Jess Fernandes Among Central Sahitya Akademi Award Winners". Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
  2. ^ "Five Novellas by Women Writers". Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
  3. ^ "2009 Sahitya Akademi Award list" (PDF). Sahitya Akademi. Retrieved 19 February 2010. [dead link]

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