Panchakshari Hiremath

Panchakshari Hiremath (6 January 1933 – 14 March 2025) was an Indian writer and poet,^[1] short story writer, essayist, critic, translator, orator, editor and freedom fighter who wrote in Kannada, Urdu and Hindi. In 2005, he won the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation.^[2]

Panchakshari Hiremath
Born	(1933-01-06)6 January 1933 Bisarahalli, Kingdom of Mysore, India
Died	14 March 2025(2025-03-14) (aged 92) Dharwad, Karnataka, India

Background

Hiremath was born at Bisarahalli (now in Koppal District in Karnataka), British India.^{[citation needed]} He was involved in the freedom struggle of Hyderabad Karnataka. He worked as a professor at Karnataka University and Karnatak College, Dharwad. His first collection of poems appeared in 1959.^{[citation needed]}

Hiremath was most famous as a poet. He was an opponent of the division of Indian society on the basis of language.^[3] Hiremath opposed dividing the society on the basis of language. Some of Hiremath's own works have been translated into Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Tamil, Marathi, Nepali, English, Spanish, French and German.^{[citation needed]}

Hiremath died on 14 March 2025, at the age of 92.^[4]

Awards and honours

• 2013 Shri ChennaRenuka Basava Prashasti, Harkud Math, Basavakalyan, gold medal and cash award^{[citation needed]}
• 2010 'Goenka Hindi Sahitya Sarswata Sammana' Awarded by Kamala Goenka Foundation, Bangalore^{[citation needed]}
• 2005, Dr. Hiremath won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for translating Qurratulain Hyder Urdu short stories Patjhar Ki Awaz to Kannada. The translated collection was titled Hemantha Ruthuvina Swaragalu.^[2]
• During Nehru Centenary, Soviet Union awarded "Soviet Land Nehru Award"^{[citation needed]}
• 1994 Karnataka Sahitya Academy Honorary Award^{[citation needed]}
• 1997 Rajyotsava Award, Government of Karnataka^{[citation needed]}
• 1985 D.Litt. World University, Arizona. USA^{[citation needed]}
• 2003, Hiremath won The Gorur Foundation Trust's award for Poetry.^[5]

Published works

Poetry

• Chaityakshi
• Nee Rudranagu
• Bayake Ee Manake (Prescribed as textbook by Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachara Sabha, Chennai)
• Mitra Deshada Kavithegalu (Russian poems; received Soviet Land Nehru Award)
• Gaali Gandha
• Belakina Heppu Hakuva Tavaka
• Indhradhanussu (translation from Hindi)
• Manasi (Forty five poems of Rabindranath Tagore)
• Bayala Baninalli (translation from Hindi)(Awarded Moorusavirmath Literary Award)
• Ondu Mattu Ondu, Eradu (translation from Hindi)
• Aashe Tumbida Usirugalu (translation from Hindi)
• Bhooma (translation from Hindi)
• Aarambhava Maduve (Awarded Gorur Literary Award)
• Samagra Kavye – Volume 1
• Samagra Kavye – Volume 2 (500 poems translated from different languages)
• Keladi (Samagra Kavya – Volume 3) (5005 Muktakas)

Stories

• Ennaleka (Prescribes as textbook by Karnataka University, Dharward)
• Hematha Rutuvina Swaragalu (translation from Urdu. Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award 2005)
• Quratul Ein Hyder Avara Aida Kathegalu
• Kshitij
• Krishna Chandara Kathegalu^[6]
• Hennondu Madhupatre (Ten stories of Amrita Preetam)
• Ippattelu Urdu Kathegalu
• Kashmirada Hovu (translation from Urdu)
• Gulabi Hoovu (translation from Urdu)
• Desha – Videshada Kathegalu (stories from different nations and languages)

Novels

• Kappu Hottage (translation from Gujarati)
• Aaru Adi Bhoomi (Kannada translation of Abdus Samad's Urdu novel Do Gaz Zameen), included in The Hindu's Top 10 Books of the Week^[7]
• Magga Chellida Belaku (translation from Hindi)
• Nari (Kannada translation of Siyaram Sharan Gupta's Hindi novel)^[8]
• Kattaleyondige (translation from Hindi)
• Jaragavada Rani (translation from Urdu)
• Ivan- e- Ghazal (translation from Urdu)
• Borban Club (translation from Urdu)

Criticism/Essays

• Kavi – Kavya – Darshana
• Kavi – Kavya – Kalpane
• Kavi – Kavya – Chintana
• Kavi – Kavya – Vihara
• Kavindra Ravindraru
• Kasmirada Mahayogini Lalleswari
• Hadinaru Prabandhagalu
• Cheluvina Alegalu
• Urdu Sahitya-Ondu Parichaya
• Galib (translation from Urdu)
• Bhoodana
• Gnana Peetha Prasasti Vijeta Firaq Gorkhapuri
• R C Bhoosnurmath (Kavi, Kavya parichaya)

Chintana Sahitya

• Chintana – Chirantana
• Chintana – Deepti
• Manasa – 1 (translation from Hindi, Rajasthan Patrika, Jaipur)
• Manasa – 2 (translation from Hindi, Rajasthan Patrika, Jaipur)
• Manasa – 3 (translation from Hindi, Rajasthan Patrika, Jaipur)

Biography

• Hanagal Kumara Swamigalu
• Sri Vijaya Mahanta Shivayogigalu
• Punya Chittaru
• Linga Leela Lolaru
• Ghanamadavaru

History

• Mukti Kshetra Ulavi
• Puratana Lucknow (translation from Urdu, awarded Moorusavirmath Literary Award)

Religion and Philosophy

• Veershaiva Pradeep

Travelogue

• Bharata Darshana

Literary Letters

• Ee Baduku Bangara
• Enentha Madhuravee Baduku
• Atma Sakhi, Tumbu Hrudaya Battalanu

Children's literature

• Chocolate Mattu Itara Kathegalu
• Neeti Kathegalu
• Darodegarana Maga (translation from Hindi)
• Bharatada Arasaru Mattu Sri Samanyaara Kathegalu (translation from English)
• Eidaga (translation from Urdu)
• Surakhabada Garigalu
• Makkala Kathegalu

Dramas (Translations)

• Hattu Hindi Laghu Natakagalu
• Panchali Shapatha Mattu Itara Natakagalu (translation from Tamil and Malayalam)
• Mooru Panjabi Natakagalu
• Chitrangada Mattu Itara Natakgalu (translation of radio plays from Oriya, Hindia Bengali)
• Neeru Taruva Hadi Mattu Itara Natakagalu (translation from Urdu, Bengali)
• Anuvadita Kathegalu (collection of translated dramas)

Hindi

• Manjari (Poems, Features, Stories and Articles)

English

• Yuga Purusha, translation by Vijayalakshmi Wodeyar
• Swami Vijaya Mahantesh, translation by Dr. Basavaraj Naiker
• Ulavi- The Abode of salvation, translation by Prof.C.N Hiremath
• Waves of Love, translation by Dr. C.V. Venugopal
• Sing the Song of Life, translation by Dr. C.V. Venugopal

Edited

• Mani Mukura Prabhe
• Gavi Deepti (With others)
• Shivayoga
• Shivalinga Deepti
• Shiva Deva (with others)
• Padmashri (with others)
• Abhinava Renuka
• Gurukarunya
• Vibhuti
• Bhaveyavara Bhoodan
• Sarangadeva