B. Puttaswamayya

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B. Puttaswamayya (Kannada: ಬಿ. ಪುಟ್ಟಸ್ವಾಮಯ್ಯ) (24 May 1897 – 25 January 1984) was an Indian writer who worked as a novelist, playwright and journalist in Kannada. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964 for his novel Kranthi Kalyana, and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1978 for his plays.