Siddalingaiah (poet)
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Siddalingaiah Dalit Writer | |
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Born | Siddalingaiah 1954 Magadi, Bangalore, India |
Occupation | Poet, Dramatist, Kannada Professor, Legislator and Dalit Activist |
Nationality | Indian |
Education | M. A. and Ph.D in Kannada |
Alma mater | Bangalore University |
Period | 1974-present |
Genre | Dalit-Bandaya Movement |
Literary movement | Dalit-Bandaya movement |
Notable works | Holemadigara Haadu, Saviraaru Nadigalu and Meravanige |
Notable awards | Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award and Nrupatunga Award |
SiddalingaiaH (Born 1954, Magadi, Bangalore) is an Indian poet and playwright writing in the Kannada language, and a Dalit activist and politician. He is credited with starting the Dalit-Bandaya movement in Kannada and with starting the genre of Dalit writing. He is one of the founders of the Dalita Sangharsh Samiti along with B. Krishnappa.
In 1988, at the age of 34, he became a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly and, in 2006, chairman of the Kannada Development Authority, a post with Cabinet rank that he held until 2008.
He has been head of the Department of Kannada at Bangalore University and a member of the University Syndicate of Kannada University, Hampi. He is acknowledged as a symbol of the Dalit movement and a leading public intellectual and Kannada poet.[1]
Works
- Saaviraaru Nadigalu (Thousands of Rivers, 1979)
- Kappu Kaadina Haadu (The Song of the Black Forest, 1982)
- Aayda Kavithegalu (Selected Poems, 1997)
- Meravanige (Procession, 2000)
- Nanna Janagalu mattu Itara Kavitegalu (My People and Other Poems, 2005)
- Kudiva Neeliya Kadalu (2017)
- Ooru Saagaravagi (2018)
Autobiography
- Ooru Keri-1 : Atmakathana (1997)
- Ooru Keri-2 : Atmakathana (2006)
- Ooru Keri-3 : Atmakathana (2014)
- A Word With You, World : The Autobiography of a Poet (Navayana, 2013) Translated by S.R. Ramakrishna (Excerpt)
- Satyanarayana, K & Tharu, Susie (2013) From those Stubs Steel Nibs are Sprouting: New Dalit Writing from South Asia, Dossier 2: Kannada and Telugu, New Delhi: HarperCollins India.
Plays
- Panchama
- Nelasama
- Ekalavya
Criticism and Essays
- Hakkkinota
- Gramadevathegalu
- Avataragalu
- Jana Samsakruthi
- Aa Mukha Ee Mukha
References
- ^ Satyanarayana and Tharu (2013). From those Stubs Steel Nibs are Sprouting: New Dalit Writing from South India Vol II. New Delhi: Harper Collins India. pp. 151–155. ISBN 978-93-5029-376-8.
- Dalit writers
- Kannada-language writers
- Living people
- Dalit leaders
- Kannada poets
- Bandaya writers
- Indian male dramatists and playwrights
- 1954 births
- Writers from Bangalore
- Poets from Karnataka
- 20th-century Indian writers
- Indian male poets
- Activists from Karnataka
- Karnataka MLAs 1989–1994
- Politicians from Bangalore
- 20th-century Indian male writers