Gopalakrishna Adiga

Gopalakrishna Adiga
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Born	1918 Mogeri, South Canara, Madras Presidency, British India (present-day Kundapura taluk, Udupi district, Karnataka, India)
Died	1992 Bangalore, Karnataka
Occupation	Poet, writer, professor
Nationality	India
Genre	Fiction
Literary movement	Navya

Mogeri Gopalakrishna Adiga (1918–1992) was one of the major figures in modern Kannada poetry. He is known as the "pioneer of New style" poetry.

Adiga was born in the coastal village of Mogeri, Udupi district, in state of Karnataka on 18 February 1918. After completing his primary education in Mogeri and Baindooru, he attended high school in Kundapur, 14 miles away from his village. His education would have ended after high school, but for the foresight of his aunt, who, against the will of other family members, gave moral and monetary support for his college studies. Thus, Adiga went to Mysore and earned his BA (Hons) in English from Maharaja's College, Mysore, University of Mysore.

After several minor jobs in Karnataka, Adiga worked at Sarada Vilas College in Mysore as lecturer in English from 1948 to 1952, during which time he completed a master's degree from Nagpur University. He also served at St. Philomena College in Mysore for ten years. In the mid 1960s, he became Principal at the newly created Lal Bahadur Shashtri College in Sagara, and later at Poorna Prajna College in Udupi.

As editor of Saakshi magazine he helped bring Kannada literature to the masses.

Adiga's wife, Lalita, currently lives in Bangalore. He is survived by five children and nine grandchildren.

Adiga's grandson is Manu Raju, Senior Political reporter for CNN.

In the 1950s and 1960s Adiga was a teacher in Mysore. From 1964 until 1968 he was the principal of Lal Bahadur College in Sagara, and from 1968 until 1971 he was Principal of Poorna Prajna College in Udupi. He later worked as the Deputy Director for the National Book Trust of India.

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