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Kannada literature
Kannada literature (ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) is the body of written and oral work in Kannada, a Dravidian language of southwestern India, attested for over eleven centuries.
Kannada literature of the Mysore court
Kannada literature of the Mysore court is the Kannada-language writing sponsored by the Wodeyar kings of Mysore, southern India, from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.
Kannada literature of the Vijayanagara period
Kannada literature of the Vijayanagara period is the Kannada-language literature of South India under the Vijayanagara Empire, from the 14th through the 16th century, in Middle Kannada.
Kannada literature of the Western Ganga period
Kannada literature of the Western Ganga period is Kannada-language writing produced under the Western Ganga dynasty of southern Karnataka, ruled from the fourth to the early eleventh century, with strong Jain patronage.
Kannada little magazines
Kannada little magazines are small, non-commercial Kannada-language periodicals that publish experimental, non-mainstream literary and cultural writing, part of the wider little magazine tradition of India.
Kannada Navodaya poetry
Kannada Navodaya poetry (ನವೋದಯ, "new day break") is the Romantic phase of modern Kannada literature, dated roughly 1900 to the 1940s, inaugurated by B.M. Srikantaiah's 1921 English Lyrics.
Kannada Navya novel
The Kannada Navya novel is the modernist Kannada novel of the Navya movement, roughly 1950 to 1980; its landmark text is U. R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara (1965).
Kannada Navya poetry
Kannada Navya poetry is the modernist school of Kannada verse, begun in the 1950s by V. K. Gokak and Gopalkrishna Adiga, that broke with Navodaya Romanticism through free verse and Western modernist influence.
Kannada novel
The Kannada novel, called kadambari in Kannada, is the tradition of prose fiction written in Kannada, which took shape in the late 19th century through translation.
Kannada prose
Kannada prose (ಗದ್ಯ, gadya) is the prose tradition of the Kannada language of southwestern India, traceable back about 1,500 years, with the 10th-century Vaddaradhane as its first fully prose book.
Kannada Rajyotsava Award
The Kannada Rajyotsava Award (Rajyotsava Prashasti), instituted in 1966, is Karnataka's second highest civilian honor, presented each November 1 in Bengaluru for contributions to the Kannada language, arts, and public life.
Kannada Ramayana
The Kannada Ramayana is the body of Rama-story retellings in Kannada, including Nagachandra's Jain Pampa Ramayana of 1149 and Narahari's Torave Ramayana of about 1500.
Kannada Sahitya Parishat
Kannada Sahitya Parishat (ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಪರಿಷತ್ತು), originally the Karnataka Sahitya Parishat, is a literary and cultural organization in Bangalore founded in 1915 to preserve and develop the Kannada language, literature, and culture.
Kannada Sahitya Sammelana
Kannada Sahitya Sammelana (ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ ಸಮ್ಮೇಳನ) is the annual literary conference of Kannada-language writers, organized by the Kannada Sahitya Parishat since 1915 and held at a rotating venue.
Kannada satire
Kannada satire is the tradition of satirical expression in literature, theater, journalism, and performance in Kannada, the language of Karnataka in southern India, and one of the predominant forms of modern Kannada literature.
Kannada script (ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ)
Kannada script (ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ), also called Canarese, is a Brahmic abugida (ISO 15924 Knda) writing Kannada, Tulu, Kodava, Konkani, Beary and others; 49 letters, thirteen vowels, virama U+0CCD, descended from Ashokan Brahmi via Kadamba script, Halmidi inscription c. 450 CE, closely related to Telugu.
Kannada short story
The Kannada short story (ಸಣ್ಣ ಕಥೆ, sanna kathe) is a prose fiction genre in Kannada, the language of Karnataka, with Panje Mangesharaya's 1900 story considered the first modern example.
Kannada theatre
Kannada theatre (Kannada rangabhoomi, ಕನ್ನಡ ರಂಗಭೂಮಿ) is the stage tradition of Karnataka, India, spanning folk forms like Yakshagana and Doddata and a modern era begun in the 1880s.
Kannada translation tradition
The Kannada translation tradition is the long, continuing practice of rendering texts into and out of Kannada, from the 10th-century Vaddaradhane through the colonial era to machine translation.
Kannada travelogue
A Kannada travelogue (ಪ್ರವಾಸ ಕಥನ, pravasa kathana) is a Kannada prose genre recording journeys through places, people, culture, and incidents, begun by Dakshina Bharata Yatre in 1890.
Kannada Veerashaiva literature
Kannada Veerashaiva literature is the body of Kannada-language devotional writing of the Veerashaiva (Lingayat) tradition of Karnataka, shaped in the twelfth century around Basavanna and centered on the vachana poem.
Kannada women's writing
Kannada women's writing (ಕನ್ನಡ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) is the body of literature by women in the Kannada language, from folk song and the 12th-century poet Akkamahadevi to Banu Mushtaq's 2025 International Booker winner.
Kannadasan (கண்ணதாசன்)
Kannadasan (கண்ணதாசன்), born Muthiah, 1927–1981, was the Kaviarasu of Tamil cinema: over 5,000 film lyrics, 4,000 poems, Arthamulla Indhu Matham, Yesu Kaaviyam, Sahitya Akademi and National Film Award winner.
Kannagi (கண்ணகி)
Kannagi (கண்ணகி), heroine of the Tamil epic Cilappatikaram by Ilango Adigal: after her husband Kovalan is wrongly executed by the Pandyan king, she proves his innocence with her ruby-filled anklet and burns Madurai, then is deified as the goddess Pattini, worshipped in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Sri Lanka.
Kannai Nambathey (கண்ணை நம்பதே)
Kannai Nambathey (கண்ணை நம்பதே), a 2023 Tamil crime thriller by Mu. Maran starring Udhayanidhi Stalin and Aathmika, released 17 March 2023; a man helping a stranger finds a body in her car, distinct from Maran's debut Iravukku Aayiram Kangal.
Kannan Pattu
Kannan Pattu (கண்ணன் பாட்டு, "Songs of Krishna") is a cycle of 23 Tamil devotional lyrics by Subramania Bharati, completed in 1912 and first published in 1917.
Kannan Ramchandran
Kannan Ramchandran is an electrical engineer and information theorist, professor of EECS at UC Berkeley since 1999, known for distributed source coding, distributed video coding, and regenerating codes for storage.
Kannan Soundararajan
Kannan Soundararajan is an Indian-born analytic number theorist, Bass Professor at Stanford since 2006, known for zeta function moments, quantum unique ergodicity, and the pretentious approach to primes.
Kannan Srinivasan
Kannan Srinivasan is an American Democratic politician representing Virginia Senate District 32 in Eastern Loudoun County, elected in 2025 after serving in the House of Delegates.
Kannappa (కన్నప్ప) (film)
Kannappa (కన్నప్ప), 2025 Telugu mythological devotional film directed by Mukesh Kumar Singh, produced by Mohan Babu, starring Vishnu Manchu; released 27 June 2025 with Prabhas, Mohanlal, Akshay Kumar cameos.