Pratibha Nandakumar
Pratibha Nandakumar is an acclaimed Kannada poet, journalist, filmmaker, columnist, and translator. Her works include 16 poetry collections, short story collections, a collection of prose writings, three biographies, one autobiography, and translations. Nandakumar also published poems in English, and her poems are taught at several universities in India and abroad. She has received several awards, including the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi Award for Poetry, the Infosys Foundation Literary Award, the Bangalore Lit Fest Award, the Mahadevi Verma Kavya Samman, the Hoogar Memorial Award for Journalism, and the Kempegowda Award, among others.