Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 111. Chapters: Mysore literature, Western Chalukya literature in Kannada, Vijayanagara literature in Kannada, Hoysala literature, Sritattvanidhi, Modern Kannada literature, Medieval Kannada literature, Girish Karnad, Halegannada, Karnataka literature, Haridasa, Kuvempu, Halmidi inscription, Rashtrakuta literature, T. R. Subba Rao, H. S. Shivaprakash, Extinct Kannada literature, Ibrahim Saeed, Nagavarma II, Kannada in computing, Western Ganga literature, Mankuthimmana Kagga, Sri Ponna, Siribhoovalaya, Adikavi Pampa, Harihara, Akka Mahadevi, Mohanatarangini, Kannada Sahitya Sammelana, Taledanda, Kannada Sahitya Parishat, Ratnakaravarni, Raghavanka, Vadirajatirtha, Shabdamanidarpana, Kavirajamarga, Kannada poetry, List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Kannada language, Vachana sahitya, Janna, Keshava Malagi, Palkuriki Somanatha, Tripadi, Parva, Padmanabha Tirtha, B. G. L. Swamy, Chronology of Karnataka literature, Sri Ramayana Darshanam, V. K. Gokak, Ranna, Bhattakalanka Deva, Charition mime, Champu, Yakshagana poetry, Ajitha purana, Vikramarjuna Vijaya, Gamaka, Adipurana, Hampa Nagarajaiah, Naraharitirtha, Dasakuta, The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, Vyasakuta, Malegalalli madumagalu, Vaddaradhane, Shunyasampadane, Pragatisheela, Kadamba script, Karana Hasuge, Mantra Gopya. Excerpt: Kannada literature is the corpus of written forms of the Kannada language, a member of the Dravidian family spoken mainly in the Indian state of Karnataka and written in the Kannada script. Kannada is attested epigraphically from the first millennium AD, and literary Old Kannada flourished in the 6th century Ganga dynasty and during 9th century Rashtrakuta Dynasty. Contemporary Kannada literature is the most successful in India, with India's highest literary honor, the Jnanpith awards, having been conferred seven times upon Kannada writers, which is the hig...