T. R. Subba Rao

T. R. Subba Rao
Born(1920-04-21)21 April 1920
Taluku, Mysore State, British India
Died10 April 1984(1984-04-10) (aged 63)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Pen nameTa Ra Su
OccupationWriter, professor
GenreFiction
Literary movementNavya, Pragatishila
RelativesTS Venkannaiah (uncle)
Vishalakshi Dakshinamurthy (niece) Nagaprasad TN (Son)
TN ShruthiPriya (Granddaughter)

Talukina Ramaswamayya Subba Rao (1920–1984), popularly known as TaRaSu, was an Indian novelist and a scholar in the Kannada-language.[1] He is considered as a harbinger of the Navya movement of Kannada literature. He is well known for his novels like Durgashtamana, which won him the Sahitya Akademi award posthumously in 1985.

  1. ^ Mohan Lal and Others (1992), p4185