|occupation = Novelist,[[कन्नड]] playwrightलेखक, conservationist[[यक्षगान]] कलाकार और फिल्म के निदेशक <ref>{{cite web |title=Karanth: Myriad-minded "Monarch of the Seashore" |url=http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19971210/34450343.html |publisher=The Indian Express |accessdate=4 November 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19991008191115/http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19971210/34450343.html |archivedate=8 October 1999 |date=10 December 1997}}</ref><ref name="chandra"/>
|nationality = भारतीय
|period = 1924–1997
|genre =
|genre = [[कन्नड]] लेखक, [[यक्षगान]] कलाकार और फिल्म के निदेशक
|subject =
|movement = [[:en:Kannada literature#Navodaya (New birth)|नवोदय]]
