Panchakshari Hiremath


Panchakshari Hiremath is a writer and poet, short story writer, essayist, critic, translator, orator, editor and freedom fighter who writes in Kannada, Urdu and Hindi. In 2005, he won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for translation.

Early life

Hiremath was born at Bisarahalli, Koppal District in Karnataka. He was actively involved in the freedom struggle of Hyderabad Karnataka. He worked as a professor in Karnataka University and Karnatak College, Dharwad. His first collection of poems appeared in 1959.
Hiremath is most famous as a poet. He is a strong opponent of division of Indian society on the basis of language. Hiremath strongly opposed dividing the society on the basis of language. Some of Hiremath's own works have been translated into Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi, Nepali, English, Spanish, French and German.

Awards and honours

Poetry
Stories
Novels
Criticism/Essays
Chintana Sahitya
Biography
History
Religion and Philosophy
Travelogue
Literary Letters
Children's literature
Dramas
Hindi
English
Edited