Information: - Vinayaka Krishna Gokak ( Kannada : ; 9 August 1909 -- 28 April 1992 ) was a major writer in the Kannada language and a scholar of English and Kannada literatures . He was fifth writer to be honored with the Jnanpith Award in 1990 for Kannada language , for his epic Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi . Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi deals with the Vedic age and is perhaps the longest epic narrative in any language in the 20th Century . In 1961 , Gokak was awarded the Padmashree from the Government of India for Dyava Prithvi . - The Jnanpith Award is an Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature". Instituted in 1961, the award is bestowed only on Indian writers writing in Indian languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and English, with no posthumous conferral. - Bharatiya Jnanpith a literary and research organization, was founded on February 18, 1944 by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu Jain family and his wife Rama Jain to undertake systematic research and publication of Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali and Apabhramsha texts and covering subjects like religion, philosophy, logic, ethics, grammar, astrology, poetics. Given the information, choose the subject and object entities that have the relation of 'occupation'.
vinayaka krishna gokak , author