Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (EP)
Mangaluru, Feb 19: Koodlu Thimmappa Gatti, eminent novelist, playwright, poet, professor and recipient of Karnataka Sahitya Academy award and Rajyotsava award passed away on Monday February 19. He was 85.
Gatti hailed from Koodlu, Kasargod. He had worked as a professor and was famous as a novelist in newspapers.
He taught as a professor in TMA Pai College, Udupi. He travelled to Ethiopia as a professor. As he was interested in further studies, he obtained diplomas in English teaching from Trinity and Oxford Colleges in England. He lived in Ujire after returning from England and indulged in agriculture.
Gatti had published more than 50 novels, essays, two poems including one in English and over 50 plays. As many as 30 plays among them, translated to different languages, were written for children and broadcast in Akashavani.
His novels were Shabdagalu (1976), Saumya (1978), Mane, Ramayajnya, Nirantara, Abrahmana, Amuktha, Avibhaktaru, Karmanye Vadhikarasthe, Koopa, Poojary, Bisilugudure, Mrityorma Amritam Gamaya, Yugantara, Shilatapaswi, Swarna Mraga and Aragina Mane.