H. M. Nayak | |
Birth Name: | Harogadde Manappa Nayak |
Birth Date: | 12 September 1931 |
Birth Place: | Harogadde, Shivamogga, Mysore State, British India (now in Karnataka, India) |
Death Place: | Mysore, Mysuru District, Karnataka, India |
Genre: | Folklore and Essays |
Harogadde Manappa Nayak (1931 - 10 November 2000) was an academician, writer and folklorist.
He was born in the village Harogadde, Shimoga district in Karnataka. He served as a lecturer, and then professor, at the Mysore University, before being appointed the Director of the Kuvempu Institute of Kannada Studies at the university.Appointed the Vice-chancellor of Gulbarga University on 2 November 1984, he served until 15 February 1987, when he resigned citing moral responsibility for examination malpractices.[1]
Nayak died, following a heart attack, in Mysore in the year 2000, at the age of 69.[2]