What is Yashwant Vithoba Chittal?
[[File:Yashwantchittal.jpg|thumb|200px|{{Center|Yashwant Vithoba Chittal.}}]] '''Yashwant Vithoba Chittal''' (3 August 1928 &ndash; 23 March 2014) was a leading [[India]]n fiction writer. His work was mostly in [[Kannada language]]. He won four Sahitya Akademi Awards, one Dr. Masti Award, and one Adikavi Pampa Award. He was born in [[Bankikodla-Hanehalli]], [[Uttara Kannada]]. Chittal died after a brief illness on 23 March 2014 at a private hospital in [[Mumbai]]. He was 85 years old. He was outlived by his wife and two sons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bellevision.com/belle/index.php?action=topnews&type=8833|title=Mumbai: Noted author Yashwant Chittal no more|publisher=[[Bellevision Media Network]]|date=23 March 2014|accessdate=23 March 2014|first=Rons|last=Bantwal}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== * [https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/chittal.html Yashwant Vithoba Chittal] at the [https://www.loc.gov/ Library of Congress website] {{DEFAULTSORT:Chittal, Yashwant Vithoba}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in India]] [[Category:20th-century Indian poets]] {{Bio-stub}}