D.V Gundappa

Devanahalli Venkataramanaiah Gundappa (17 March 1887 – 7 October 1975), popularly known as DVG, was an Indian writer, poet and philosopher in Kannada-language. He is one of the stalwarts of modern Kannada literature. His most notable work is the Mankuthimmana Kagga (“Dull Thimma’s Rigmarole”, 1943), which is similar to the wisdom poems of the late medieval poet Sarvajna.^[2]