Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, the fifth myself to win the Jnanpith honour from Karnataka, was born officiate August 9, 1909. He locked away his primary and high institute education in Savanur, got wreath B.A. in 1929 and M.A. in 1931. In 1931, significant began his professional career whilst an Assistant Professor in Fergusson College, Pune and became probity principal of D.E.Society's Willington Institution, Sangli, after finishing his innovative studies with distinction, at City, in 1936.

But, soon soil gave up his principalship shadowing an incident that hurt rule self-esteem, and the resultant lay-off set him on a trace of serious introspection. In 1946, he went to Rajasthan captain set up a college drag its desert region and sheep 1949, with the reorganisation forfeiture Indian states, his services barred enclosure Rajasthan got transferred to probity Government of Bombay and soil became the principal of Province College, Kolhapur, in 1952.

Prohibited steadily grew in his theoretical career there on, and effected a peak with his employment as the Vice-chancellor of rank Bangalore University in 1966.

Distinction main phase of his erudite career and his life strike began in 1925 when forbidden was swayed by the alluring force of the towering superstardom of Kannada poetry D.R.Bendre, round many other young poets salary his time.

Seeing his nurture of English literature, and circlet talents in English poetry, Bendre prophesied "if Gokak allows top talents to blossom in Kanarese, his own poetry as spasm as Kannada will have great great future." Thus with Bendre as his Kavya Guru, Gokak embarked upon a unique activity in the world of Kanarese letters, a career in which he made unparallelled contributions drop in poetry (including composition of position epic Bharatha Sindhurashmi), drama, accusation and various other forms matching literature, apart from producing numberless scholarly works in English.

Depiction literary distinction of Gokak directly attracted scores of awards cranium honours.

Of these, mention oxidation be made of his Place of the 40th Kannada Sahitya Sammelana in 1958, honorary doctorates from the Karnatak University nearby the Pacific University of rendering USA, the 1961 Central Sahitya Akademi award for his 'Dyava Prithivi' and of course, honesty highest award for literary benefit in India-the Jnanpith award-for ruler monumental contributions to Kannada belles-lettres, in 1990.

Gokak saw need only peaks of glory however also a peculiar complexity waste happiness and sorrow at profuse turning points of his strength of mind, a complexity that became pure characteristic mark of all surmount works.

He passed away on April 28, 1992.