Ta. Ra. Subba Rao

Born: 1920-04-21, Malebennur, Karnataka

Died: 1984-04-10

Biography

Talukina Ramaswamayya Subba Rao, popularly known as TaRaSu, was an Indian novelist and a scholar in the Kannada-language. 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.