N. S. Lakshminarayan Bhat

N. S. Lakshminarayan Bhat

N. S. Lakshminarayan Bhat (kannada ಎನ್.ಎಸ್.ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮೀನಾರಾಯಣ ಭಟ್ಟ) (born 1926) is a Kannada poet from Shivamogga distrct. He was awarded the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi in 1974. After completing a M.A., he served as a professor and then as the dean (1990) of the Arts College. Bhat was a scholar-poet widely read in kannada, English and Sanskrit literature.

His work Horalu Dariyalli Kavya (Poetry on a fun road) earned him the Sahitya Academy award. Bhat translated 50 sonnets of William Shakespeare and works of poet Yeats into Kannada language. The Masti Award was given to poet N.S. Lakshminarayana Bhat in 2007.[1]

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