Noted literary critic G. S. Amur, 95, passed away in his sleep at his residence in Bengaluru on Monday morning. He was suffering from age-related illness and was not keeping well for sometime now.
It was just over a week ago that Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) announced this year’s Nrupatunga award for lifetime’s work in literary criticism to G S Amur. He passed away before even receiving the award.
G S Amur was born in Bommanahalli of Dharwad district in 1925 and went on to become an English professor and had a long career in various universities of Karnataka and Maharashtra. A noted critic of English literature, he has extensively written about the works of R K Narayan and Raja Rao, both from the State.
However, in the latter part of his career he took to writing in Kannada about Kannada literature and is regarded as one of the finest literary critics of…