. . "Gokak, V. K."@en . . . . . "1992-04-28Z"^^ . . . . "1909Z"^^ . . . "Indian writer" . . . "1992Z"^^ . "1909-08-09Z"^^ . "V. K. Gokak"@en . . . . "Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (Kannada: \u0CB5\u0CBF\u0CA8\u0CBE\u0CAF\u0C95 \u0C95\u0CC3\u0CB7\u0CCD\u0CA3 \u0C97\u0CCB\u0C95\u0CBE\u0C95; 9 August 1909 \u2013 28 April 1992) was a major writer in the Kannada language and a scholar of English and Kannada literatures. He was fifth writer to be honored with the Jnanpith Award in 1990 for Kannada language, for his epic Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi. Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi deals with the Vedic age and is perhaps the longest epic narrative in any language in the 20th Century."@en . .