title: H. M. Nayak
text: # H. M. Nayak
  
  Harogadde Manappa Nayak (1931 - 10 November 2000) was an academician, writer and folklorist.
  
  ## Early life and career
  
  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.
  
  ## Death
  
  Nayak died, following a heart attack, in Mysore in the year 2000, at the age of 69.
  
  ## Literary works
  
  * Namma Maneya Deepa, collection of essays
  * Kannada Vratha
  * Karnataka (1992)
  * South Indian Studies (edited with B R Gopal, 1990)
  * Samprati (1988)
  * Soolangi, a collection of thirty reflective essays (1985)
  * Epic in Indian literature (1985)
  * Impact of Marxism on Indian life and literature - proceedings of a national seminar (editor, 1972)
  * Janapada Swarupa, collection of essays on the nature and scope of folklore (1971)
  * Kannada - Literary and Colloquial, a study of two styles (1967)
  
  ## Accolades
  
  * 1985 - Nayak was presided the chair of 57th Kannada Sahitya Sammelana held in Bidar.
  * 1989 - Sahitya Akademi Award for the work Samprati, collection of column writing.
  