M. R. Kamala

Career Kamala started writing poems and stories at a young age, and while studying in college, she published her works in college magazines and local newspapers. Her first poetry collection, Shakuntalopakhyana was published in 1988.

Some of her selected poems have been printed in English, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Telugu and Marathi languages, and in 2005, some were set to music by a Kannada composer C. Ashwath.

She has translated books from other languages into Kannada. She has primarily focused on translating works written by women writers from Africa, Arab nations, and African-Americans. She translated Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings into Kannada.

M. R. Kamala started her career working as a Kannada Lecturer in a Pre-University (PU) College, at Halebidu in 1981 and retired as a Principal of Shivanahalli Pre-University College (PU), Rajajinagar, Bengaluru in 2018. Hoovu Chellida Haadi (2007) Nettarali Nenda Chandra (2016) SV Parameshwara Bhat award (2017) Matrushri Ratnamma Hedge Memorial Award