Girish Raghunath Karnad is an award winning writer/playwright and actor/director. He writes primarily in the Kannada language, which is one of the Dravidian languages. However, his plays have been widely translated into English, and all the other major Indian languages.
Born in 1938 in Matheran, Maharashtra, India, Girish Karnad is an award-winning poet, playwright, screenwriter, actor and film director. He's a recipient of the Jnanpith Award, India's most prestigious literary prize.
Karnad is a playwright, actor and movie director. He was born and raised in India, and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He is famous and much-adored in India; his plays are translated around the world. He has received many awards for his writing, movies and work in the theater.
