Autumn Ways

H.S. Shiva Prakash is a well-known Indian poet and playwright.  Apart from the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi award and the Karnataka Natak Akademi award, he is recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and HRD Fellowship in the field of literature.  HE has to his credit several books of poems, plays and books on criticism in Kannada.  His poems and plays have been translated into English and other Indian languages.  His plays have been staged in Karnataka and in different parts of India.  He edited the Sahitya Akademi journal, Indian Literature from 1996 to 2001.  He has traveled and lectured in different parts of the world.  At present, he is associate professor in School of Arts and Aesthetics as also the honorary fellow of School of Letters, University of Iowa, USA.