Mallikarjun Patil

Mallikarjun Patil is a novelist, short-story writer, translator and critic. A Reader in English, Karnatak University, Dharwad, he is a distinguished academician. He has written numerous articles and two works on Thomas Hardy, apart from Studies in American Literature, and British Literature. He has written a novel When the Ground Shakes Beneath, which has been translated into Kannada, Punjabi and Hindi. His A Don in the Jungle is a political novel on the forest brigand, Veerappan. He has...See more

Mallikarjun Patil is a novelist, short-story writer, translator and critic. A Reader in English, Karnatak University, Dharwad, he is a distinguished academician. He has written numerous articles and two works on Thomas Hardy, apart from Studies in American Literature, and British Literature. He has written a novel When the Ground Shakes Beneath, which has been translated into Kannada, Punjabi and Hindi. His A Don in the Jungle is a political novel on the forest brigand, Veerappan. He has translated Bajranga Korde's English work Anna Bhau Sathe into Kannada for Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. He writes in Kannada as well. His two Kannada novels Raita Kallappana Aatmahatye and Bhukampa have established his reputation as an ambitious writer. In Shakespeare's England - is a travel account of his education at Oxford and his visit to various places in England. Its Kannada version entitled, Shakespearana Ingandinalli - has seen five editions so far. See less