Bio
Janaki Srinivasa Murthy, popularly known by her pen name Vaidehi is a well-known writer of modern Kannada language fiction. Vaidehi is one of the most successful woman writers in Kannada and winner of many prestigious national and state level literary awards. She has won the Central Sahitya Akademi Award for her collection of short stories, Krauncha Pakshigalu in 2009.
She has a number of novels, short stories, essays, children’s plays and poems to her credit.