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| birth_date = {{birth year|1918}}<br />
| birth_place = Mogeri, [[South Canara]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br>(present-day [[Kundapura|Kundapura taluk]], [[Udupi district]], [[Karnataka]], [[India]])<br />
| death_date = {{death year and age|1992|1918}}<br />
| death_place = [[Bangalore]], [[Karnataka]]<br />
| occupation = [[Poet]], [[writer]], [[professor]]<br />
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| movement = [[Kannada literature#Modern Kannada (hosagannaDa)|Navya]]<br />
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'''Mogeri Gopalakrishna Adiga''' (1918–1992) was a modern [[Kannada poetry|Kannada poet]]. He is known by some commentators as the "pioneer of [[Kannada poetry#Navya .28New.29|New style]]" poetry.<ref name="hindu">{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20090228045107/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/09/26/stories/2002092600660200.htm http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2002/09/26/stories/2002092600660200.htm]}} The Hindu - 26 September 2002</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
As editor of ''Saakshi'' magazine he helped bring [[Kannada literature]] to the masses.<ref name="hin3">{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070313181327/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2004/10/04/stories/2004100411610300.htm Gopalakrishna Adiga remembered]}} The Hindu - 4 October 2004</ref><br />
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Adiga's grandson is Manu Raju, Senior Political reporter for CNN.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/profiles/manu-raju</ref><br />
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==Work==<br />
In the 1950s and 1960s Adiga was a teacher in [[Mysore]].<ref name="hin2">[https://web.archive.org/web/20040823112054/http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/04/25/stories/2004042500260300.htm The Mysore generation] ''The Hindu'' - 25 Apr 2004.</ref> From 1964 until 1968 he was the principal of Lal Bahadur College in [[Sagara, India|Sagara]], and from 1968 until 1971 he was Principal of Poorna Prajna College in [[Udupi]].<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://geocities.com/indian_poets/kannada.html |title=Indian Poets Writing In Kannada |access-date=2010-10-08 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026144559/http://geocities.com/indian_poets/kannada.html |archive-date=26 October 2009 }} - Indian Poets</ref><br />
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His style has been described {{By whom|date= February 2013}} as a response to the [[Indian independence movement|independence of India]] from [[British Raj|British rule]] in 1947. The style called [[Kannada literature#Modern Kannada (hosagannaDa)|Navya]] was generally about the new times. Inspired by modern [[Western literature]] and Indian tradition, he set out to portray the "disillusionment and angst of the times".<ref name="bio" /><br />
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==Works==<br />
*''Bhavataranga'' - 1946<br />
*''Anathey' - 1954 (novel)<br />
*''Bhoomi Geetha'' - 1959<br />
*''Mannina Vasane'' (book of essays) - 1966<br />
*''Vardhamana'' - 1972<br />
*''Idanna Bayasiralilla'' (poems) - 1975<br />
*''Samagra Kavya'' (collection of poems) - 1976<br />
*''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090612035606/http://www.sirinudi.org/Sakshi/sakshi.html] Sakshi'' (Magazine) - 1962<br />
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==Quotes==<br />
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*"ಇರುವುದೆಲ್ಲವ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಇರದುದರೆಡೆಗೆ ತುಡಿವುದೆ ಜೀವನ?" (Iruvudellava bittu iradudaredege tudivude jeevana?)<br />
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Is life leaving everything we have and craving for things which we do not have?<br />
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*"ಮೌನ ತಬ್ಬಿತು ನೆಲವ" (mouna tabbitu nelava)<ref>[http://www.caswath.com/about-quotes.htm QUOTES about Aswath] - C. Aswath</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Kannada language]]<br />
* [[Kannada literature]]<br />
* [[Kannada poetry]]<br />
* [[Gopalakrishna Bharathi]]<br />
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