BANGALORE: Jnanpith award winning litterateur Dr. U R Ananthamurthy has passed away in a Bangalore hospital on Friday. He was 81.
He was critically ill till Friday afternoon.
The 81-year-old titan of Kannada literature who was admitted
to Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, was suffering from multi-organ failure.
Ananthamurthy was suffering from renal failure and was under
dialysis for some years. He developed cardiac and respiratory complications and
was admitted to hospital about 10 days ago.
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| Dr. UR Ananthamurthy with his wife Esthar |
His wife Esther Ananthamurthy, and daughter Anuradha
Ananthamurthy, son in law Vivek Shanbhag were seen at the hospital.
He was shifted to ICU four days ago.
Born on December 21, 1932 in Melige, a tiny hamlet near
Thirthahalli taluk of Shimoga district, Udupi, Rajgopalacharya Ananthamurthy
was the sixth of the eight Jnanpith awardees from Karnataka. He was presented
with the award in 1994, in recognition of the body of his work.
A Padma Bhushan award winner, Ananthamurthy was a finalist
for the Man Booker Prize in 2013.
Ananthamurthy hit the limelight with his novel,
"Samskara", which he wrote in 1965. The modernist novel was made into
an eponymous movie that set a new trend in avant garde cinema in the country. - News Source Times of India
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