Ta. Ra. Subba Rao
Apr 21, 1920 - Apr 10, 1984 (63 years old) in Malebennur, Karnataka
Talukina Ramaswamayya Subba Rao, popularly known as TaRaSu, was an Indian novelist and a scholar in the Kannada-language. He is considered as a harbinger of the Navya movement of Kannada literature. He is well known for his novels like Durgashtamana, which won him the Sahitya Akademi award posthumously in 1985.