Girish Karnad, an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, and playwright, was born in 1938.
Girish Karnad was an Indian actor, film director, Kannada writer, playwright, and Jnanpith awardee who worked primarily in South Indian cinema and Bollywood. His success as a playwright in the 1960s heralded the arrival of modern Indian playwriting in Kannada, as Badal Sarkar did in Bengali, Vijay Tendulkar in Marathi, and Mohan Rakesh in Hindi. He was the recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour.
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