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| name = Gourish Kaikini<br />
| native_name = ಗೌರೀಶ ಕಾಯ್ಕಿಣಿ<br />
| native_name_lang = kn<br />
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| pseudonym = {{hlist|Vaishwanara|Gourishankara|Aduge bhatta|GVK}} {{fact|date=September 2021}}<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1912|9|12}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Gokarna, Karnataka|Gokarna]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2002|11|14|1912|9|12}}<br />
| death_place = [[Gokarna, Karnataka|Gokarna]]<br />
| occupation = [[Litterateur]], <br /> [[Teacher]], <br /> [[Philosopher]] {{fact|date=September 2021}}<br />
| language = {{hlist|Kannada|Konkani|Marathi|English}}<br />
| spouse = {{marriage|Shanthabai|1953}}<br />
| alma_mater = {{hlist|Karnataka College, Dharawad}}<br />
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| awards = Sahitya Academy award, {{fact|date=September 2021}} <br /> Rajyotsava Award<br />
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'''Gourish Kaikini''' (12 September 1912 &ndash; 14 November 2002) was a teacher and Kannada litterateur. He received many awards including the [[Sahitya Academy award]] {{fact|date=May 2022}} and the [[Rajyotsava Award]] given by the [[government of Karnataka]]. He also wrote in Marathi and [[Konkani]].<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Gourish Kaikini was born on 12 September 1912. He graduated from [[Dharwad]], and served as a high-school teacher at [[Anandashram High School, Bankikodla]] and [[Bhadrakali High School]], Gokarna from 1937 to 1976. He married Shantabai in 1953.<ref name="gourish">{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/litterateur-gourish-kaikini-is-dead/articleshow/28299127.cms | title=Litterateur Gourish Kaikini is dead |newspaper=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=12 October 2021 |date=14 November 2002}}</ref> His son [[Jayant Kaikini]] is a poet and writer in the [[Kannada literature]].<br />
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==Works==<br />
Gourish Kaikini wrote a total of 62 books, most of them in Kannada and Marathi.<ref>{{Cite news|others=Special Correspondent|date=2011-09-07|title=Gourish Kaikini's centenary to commence on Monday|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/gourish-kaikinis-centenary-to-commence-on-monday/article2430195.ece|access-date=2021-09-06|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> He has written novels as well as poetry collections. He served as a writer and a columnist for several newspapers and periodicals.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Delhi|first=Publications Division (India), New|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QmvyDwAAQBAJ&dq=gourish+kaikini+62+poem&pg=PA60|title=AKASHVANI: Vol. XXVIII. No. 46 ( 17 NOVEMBER, 1963 )|date=1963-11-17|publisher=Publications Division (India),New Delhi|language=en}}</ref> His style of writing attracted widespread acclaim.<ref name="gourish"/> Dialectic between tradition and modernity has been Kaikin's central concern.<ref name="works">{{cite news<br />
|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/Archives/sep202004/d9.asp<br />
|title=Kannada litterateur Kaikini remembered<br />
|newspaper=[[Deccan Herald]]<br />
|access-date=21 July 2007<br />
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929123024/http://www.deccanherald.com/Archives/sep202004/d9.asp<br />
|archive-date=29 September 2007<br />
|url-status=dead<br />
}}</ref><br />
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Kaikini, who initially wrote in Marathi, started writing in Kannada in the latter part of the 1930s. His popular works include Navamanavathavaada, Nasthika Mathu Devaru, Manovignanada Roopureshegalu, and Sathyarthi.{{fact|date=September 2021}}<br />
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==Awards and honors==<br />
Kaikini has been honored with number of awards. He was honored with the Ideal Teacher award in 1973. He was bestowed with the diamond jubilee award of the [[Kannada Sahitya Parishat]], Vardhamana Prashasti, Sahitya Academy Award {{fact|date=September 2021}}, [[Karnatak University]]'s honorary doctorate degree, Karnataka Rajyotstava Prashasti, Dr Sham Bha Forum Prashanti, Mangalore Sandesh Prashanti and Konkani Sahitya Prashasti for his Konkani work ''Meenakshi''.<ref name="gourish"/> An organization has been set up in his name and writers in [[Kannada literature]] are conferred with awards every year from the organization.<ref name="works"/><br />
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==Major works==<br />
Kaikini's major works include ''Navamanavathavaada, Nasthika Mathu Devaru, Manovignanada Roopureshegalu''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Manovignanada Roopureshegalu|url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/85685785-manovignanada-roopureshegalu|access-date=2021-09-06|website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref> and ''Sathyarthi''.{{fact|date=September 2021}}<br />
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