H S Shiva PrakashH.S Shiva Prakash is a well-known Indian poet and playwright. Apart from the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi award and the Karnataka Natak Akademi award, he is recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi award and the HRD fellowship in the field of literature. e has to his credit several books of poems, plays and books on criticism in Kannada language. His poems and plays have been translated into English and other Indian languages and have been staged in Karnataka and other parts of India. He edited the Sahitya Akademi journal, 'Indian Literature' from 1996 to 2001. Read More Read Less