Karnataka Nataka Academy has announced its annual awards of the year 2006-07. Well-known limerick writer Dundiraj, who has written many radio plays and involved in theatre movement for many years, has been selected for the honorary award. As many as 15 theatre personalities have been selected for the annual awards. Well-known theatre troupe Prabhat Kalavidaru has been selected for K Hirannaiah Puraskara.
Six young theatre activists have been selected for CGK Yuvaranga Puraskara. Academy President Srinivas G Kappanna, announcing the list of the award winners at a press conference on Monday, said besides the annual awards, the Academy has selected 101 theatre personalities, including three staying abroad, for Suvarna Karnataka award.
The honorary award comprises Rs 10,000 in cash and a citation.
The annual award comprises Rs 5,000 in cash and a citation. The recipients of CGK Yuvaranga Puraskara will get a cash prize of Rs 3,000 and a citation.
However, Suvarna Karnataka puraskara does not include any cash prize.
The awards will be presented in a function to be organised at Mudubidri in Dakshina Kannada district.
The date of the programme has not been finalised.
The list of the award winners is as follows:
Annual award: Devendra Reddy Nandipura (Bellary); Dodda Ankachar (Mandya); D K Shindhe (Bangalore); Lingaiah Veerabhadraiah Kulakarni (Belgaum); K B Shankar (Bijapur); P S Rao (Mangalore); K Rangaswamy (Hassan); Seetharamashetty Kuradi (Udupi); Mahantesh Gajendragada (Bagalkot); Narayan Kulakarni (Gulbarga); Mico Chandru (Bangalore); Srimathi Hariprasad (Mysore); Anitha Karyappa (Madikeri); Anandaraj (Bangalore) and S N Deshapande (Dharwad).
CGK Yuvaranga puraskara: Ramakrishna Belthur (Bangalore); Rajesh Talakadu (Mysore); Siddaraju S S (Davangere); Mohan Mattinavile (Hassan); Suresh Angadi (Bellary) and Santhosh Gajanana Mahale (Dharwad).
Theatre critic: M K Bhaskar Rao, Prajavani (Bangalore); Hunasavadi Rajan (Bangalore) and Srikantha Gundappa (Bangalore).
Theatre journal: Rangavani (Mysore) and Rangathorana (Dharwad).
Suvarna Karnataka Puraskara: America - Vallisha Shastry, Prof Shreekantaiah; Australia - Sudarshan; Pavankumar Manvi (Hyderabad); K G Kumarappa (Kolkota); Mumbai - Manjunathaiah, Ondas Kannangar; Krishna Bhat (Delhi); Bhageerathi Bayi Kadam (Assam) and M R Krishnamurthy Bhagavathar (Kasargod).
Neenasam (Heggodu); Shivasanchara (Sanehalli - Chitradurga); Nagaraj Kote (Hassan); Sri Shyla Gooli (Gulbarga); K R Prakash (Uttara Kannada) and C Lakshman (Bangalore); Shireesh Joshi (Belgaum).
Bidar - Shanthappa Devaraya, Vyjanath Biradar; Bagalkot - Vilasa Bayi Mageppa Rayannavara, Sunanda Kandagal; Yallappa (Bangalore Rural);
Bijapur - Ambadas Joshi, Dr Ashok Tolanur; Bannada Basavarajappa (Chamarajnagar);
Chickmagalur - Mahaveer Jain, M B Shivapppa; G L Ramaiah (Chitradurga);
Davangere - Jayakumar Kodaganur, Veerayya Swamy; Gadag - R N Kulakarni;
Hassan - Kallappa Arasikere, Genigere Rangappadas; Haveri - Karimsab Devagiri, K N Janvekar;
Kolar - Rangareddy Kodirampura, V M Thippeswamy, M D Munishamappa;
Koppala - Narasanna Sonar, Allama Prabhu Bettadur; Devidas Sampaje (Madikeri);
Raichur - Basavaraj Patrappa Emmi, B Basavaraju;
Shimoga - K B Kabini Gowda, Kagodu Annaji; Tumkur - H B Siddalingappa, Kuppur Krishnamurthy;
Uttara Kannada - Sridhar Hegde Hulimane, Ramananda Inakai; Udyavara Nagesh Kumar (Udupi);
Mangalore - Janardhan Acharya, A K Vijay, Sukumar Kannan, Rohini Jagaram, Ratnamala Purandar;
Dharwad - K Rajalakshmi, Sulochana Koturu, Sridevi, Raghunath Nadigera, Veeranna Kurli;
Gulbarga - Vishwanath Belagunpa, Kanteppa Mastar Kudli, Rajanna Uggi, Eshwarappa Pharatabad, I S Navali, D S Kumar Yadagir;
Bellary - Mahalingaraj Gavayi; Badarinarayan, Jagadeesh, Govindappa, Venkanagowda; Mandya - K Prahlad Rao, Hulivana Ramalingu, H V Jayaram;
Mysore - Narayana Shetty K G, D B Rao, Mohan Das, Puttanna, Sreedhar Murthy, Jayaram, Vijay Sindhuvalli, K N Basavaraju, Srinivas Bhat (Chini);
Bangalore - M N Lakshmidevi, Mainavathi, Radha, Rukmini, Shobha Satish, H K Ramamurthy, N S Dani, H S Neelakantha, Sanjay Suri, Murthy Bengaloorkar, Nanjappa, Naginibharana and M G Venkatesh.
