Basavaraj Sabarad, popular writer and Reader, Department of Kannada, Gulbarga University, has received the prestigious Rajyotsava Award instituted by the State government.
Dr. Sabarad is one among five writers selected for his contribution to literature. His poems and plays have received many awards and have been included in the syllabus of various universities both at degree and postgraduate levels.
He has won the Janapada Academy Award in 2009 for his critical works on folk literature. A Nataka Academy Awardee, Dr. Sabarad also reached out to the common man through the popular ‘Jathas’. Some of his works have been translated into Malayalam, Urdu and English.
His Ph.D is a comparative study between Basaveshwara and Purandaradasa. He also carried out special research on Hyderabad Karnataka Tattvapada Literature and Tattvapadakaras. Besides his extensive research in Bandaya Sahitya, mystic poets of the Hyderabad Karnataka region, works of Purandaradasa and social reformers, he has fought against social inequality and evils such as untouchability and gender discrimination.
Dr. Sabarad has written 15 books related to literary criticism, 13 books on poetry, 12 plays, and six books on Vichara Sahitya.
