Vinayaka Krishna Gokak

V.K Gokak
Native name	Kannada:ವಿ.ಕೃ.ಗೋಕಾಕ್
Born	(1909-08-09)9 August 1909 Savanur State, Princely state, Deccan States Agency, British India (Savanur in present-day Haveri district of Karnataka)
Died	28 April 1992(1992-04-28) (aged 82) Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Occupation	Professor, writer
Nationality	Indian
Genre	Fiction
Literary movement	Navodaya
Spouse	Sharada Betadur
Children	4
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Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (9 August 1909 – 28 April 1992), abbreviated in Kannada as Vi. Kru. Gokak, was an Indian writer in the Kannada language and a scholar of English and Kannada literatures. He was the fifth writer^[1] to be honoured with the Jnanpith Award in 1990 for Kannada language, for his epic Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi. Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi deals with the Vedic age and is perhaps the longest epic narrative in any language in the 20th century. In 1961, Gokak was awarded the Padma Shri from the Government of India for Dyava Prithvi.