T. R. Subba Rao
| T. R. Subba Rao | |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 April 1920 Taluku, Mysore State, British India | 
| Died | 10 April 1984 (aged 63) Bangalore, Karnataka, India | 
| Pen name | Ta Ra Su | 
| Occupation | Writer, professor | 
| Genre | Fiction | 
| Literary movement | Navya, Pragatishila | 
| Relatives | TS Venkannaiah (uncle) Vishalakshi Dakshinamurthy (niece) Nagaprasad TN (Son) TN ShruthiPriya (Granddaughter) | 
Talukina Ramaswamayya Subba Rao (1920–1984), popularly known as TaRaSu, was an Indian novelist and a scholar in the Kannada-language. He is considered as a harbinger of the Navya movement of Kannada literature. He is well known for his novels like Durgashtamana, which won him the Sahitya Akademi award posthumously in 1985.