Writer and literary critic Govindaray H Nayak (88), popularly known as G H Nayak, passed away due to heart attack in Mysuru, on Friday.
A native of Surve village near Ankola, Uttara Kannada district of coastal Karnataka, Nayak served the University of Mysore as a Kannada professor. A writer and critic, Nayak won the Central Sahitya Akademi Award for his work Sanskrit Chintana in 2014. He is also a recipient of the Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award and Pampa Award.
After his high school diploma from Peoples Multi-purpose High School, Ankola, in 1951, he shifted to Mysuru and did MA in Kannada from the University of Mysore. He is survived by his wife Meera and daughter Keerthi.
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