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| birth_name = Gururaja ShyamacharyaAmur<br />
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| birth_place = Bommanahalli, [[Dharwad District]], Karnataka state, India<br />
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'''Gururaja Shyamacharya Amur''' (8 May 1925 – 28 September 2020) was an Indian professor of literature, writer and critic in both the [[Kannada]] and English languages. He was a recipient of many prestigious awards including the Central Sahitya Akademi Award instituted by the Government of India.<br />
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== Career==<br />
Amur was born in Bommanahalli village in the [[Dharwad]] district. He obtained his [[Master of Arts]] degree in English from the [[University of Mumbai]] and his PhD in English from the [[Karnatak University]], [[Dharwar]]. His thesis was titled [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/top3mset/14982528 ''The Concept of Comedy'']. After his M.A., Amur worked as a Professor of English at the [[Karnatak University]], [[Dharwad]] and [[Marathwada University]] in [[Aurangabad, Maharashtra|Aurangabad]] before he visited the [[University of California at Santa Barbara]] and [[Yale University]] as a Senior [[Fulbright]] scholar in 1972 and 1973. He was married to Shanta Amur and resided in Dharwad.<br />
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==Awards==<br />
* [[Nrupatunga Award]] - 2020<ref>{{cite web|title=ಜಿ. ಎಸ್. ಆಮೂರಗೆ 'ನೃಪತುಂಗ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ'|url=https://www.prajavani.net/amp/artculture/gs-amura-nrupatunga-award-760420.html|date=10 September 2020|publisher=Prajavani.com|accessdate=10 September 2020|language=Kannada|trans-title=Nrupatunga Award for G. S. Amur}}</ref><br />
* ''Masti Award'' in 2010<ref name="masti">{{cite news|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/61980/masti-award-g-s-amur.html|title= Masti award for G S Amur|work=Deccan Herald|accessdate=17 January 2011|location=Bangalore,India|date=3 April 2010}}</ref><br />
* [[Adikavi Pampa|Pampa Award]] in 2006<ref name="pampa">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/27/stories/2007032706570400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071221070731/http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/27/stories/2007032706570400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 December 2007|title= G.S. Amur, Lalitha Naik among those chosen for State awards|accessdate=16 January 2008|location=Chennai, India|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=27 March 2007}}</ref><br />
* [[D. R. Bendre|Da. Ra. Bendre Award]] in 2005<ref name="drben">{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/01/stories/2006020108160300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708100846/http://www.hindu.com/2006/02/01/stories/2006020108160300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 July 2007|title= G.S. Amur receives Bendre Award|accessdate=16 January 2008|location=Chennai, India|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=1 February 2006}}</ref><br />
* [[Rajyotsava Award]] in 2000<ref name="rajya">{{cite web|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2000/10/31/stories/04312109.htm|title= 51 chosen for Rajyotsava award: Amur, Sudha, Simha among recipients|work=The Hindu|accessdate=16 January 2008}}</ref><br />
* [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1996<ref name="akademi">{{cite web|url=http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10307.htm#kannada |title=Awards and Fellowships |work=Sahitya Akademi |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |access-date=16 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211010650/http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa10307.htm |archive-date=11 December 2007 }}</ref><br />
* ''Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Award'' in 1993, 1994<br />
* ''S. S. Malwad Prashasti'' in 1988<br />
* Karnataka [[Sahitya Akademi Award|Sahitya Akademi]] in 1988<br />
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== Death ==<br />
Amur died on 28 September, 2020 due to age related ailments at the age of 95.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/eminent-writer-and-sahitya-akademi-awardee-gs-amur-dies-at-95-2302177|title=Eminent writer and Sahitya akademi awardee GS Amur dies at 95|work=NDTV|date=28 Sep 2020 |accessdate=28 Sep 2020}}</ref><br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
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=== Books ===<br />
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==== Kannada ====<br />
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* ''Ninda Hejje'' (2004)<br />
* ''Bendre Kaavya'' (2003)<br />
* ''Kannada Kathana Sahitya: Sanna Kathe'' (2003)<br />
*''Seemollanghana'' (2002)<br />
*''Kathanashastra'' (2001)<br />
*''Shantinath Desai'' (2000)<br />
*''Amrutavaahini'' (2000)<br />
*''Bendrekaavyada Pratimaaloka'' (2000)<br />
*''Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre'' (2000)<br />
*''Kaadambariya Swaroopa'' (1999)<br />
*''Viraata Purusha: Shriranga Saraswata Sameekshe'' (1998)<br />
*''Saatvika Patha'' (1995)<br />
*''Kannada Kathana Sahitya: Kaadambari'' (1994)<br />
*''Comedy'' (1993)<br />
*''Vyavasaaya'' (1992)<br />
*''Bhuvanada Bhagya'' (1991)<br />
*''Arthaloka'' (1988)<br />
*''A.N. Krishnarayaru'' (1987)<br />
*''Kannada Kaadambariya Belevanige'' (1983)<br />
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==== English ====<br />
*''Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre'' (1994)<br />
*''Creations & Transcreations'' (1992)<br />
*''Forbidden Fruit, Views on Indo-Anglian Fiction'' (1992)<br />
*''A.N. Krishnarao'' (1987)<br />
*''Colonial Consciousness in Commonwealth Literature'' (1984)<br />
*''Essays on Comparative Literature and Linguistics'' (1984)<br />
*''Images and Impressions: Essays Mainly on Contemporary Indian Literature'' (1979)<br />
*''The Concept of Comedy: A Re-statement'' (1963)<br />
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=== Anthologies ===<br />
'''Kannada'''<br />
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*''Koralu Kolalu: Collection of critical articles on modern kannada poetry'' (2006)<br />
*''Anthology of Selected Plays of Sriranga'' (2005)<br />
*''Swatantryottara Sannakathegalu (2004)<br />
*''Avala Kathegalu'' (1999)<br />
*''Selected Kannada Short Stories'' (1993)<br />
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=== Essays ===<br />
'''English'''<br />
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* ''The River, the Lotus Pond and the Ruined Temple: An Essay on Symbolism in RK Narayan's Novels'' (1985)<br />
* ''Philip Roth's My Life as a Man: Portrait of the Artist as a Trapped Husband'' (1984)<br />
* ''The Beautiful and the Necessary: A Note on Emerson's Idea of Form'' (1983)<br />
* ''Marriage as Symbolic Strategy in Seeta, Esmond in India and The Serpent and the Rope'' (1981)<br />
* ''Theme, Structure, and Symbol in The Catcher in the Rye'' (1969)<br />
* ''Self-Recognition in The Serpent and The Rope''<br />
* ''A Saint for Malgudi: A New Look at R.K. Narayan’s The Guide''<br />
* ''Hellenic Heroines and Sexless Angels: Images of Women in Forster's Novels''<br />
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