Vaidehi (Kannada writer)

Vaidehi
BornVasanti
(1945-02-12) 12 February 1945
Kundapur, Udupi, Karnataka, British India
Pen nameVaidehi
OccupationWriter
NationalityIndian
GenreKannada fiction
Notable awardsSahitya Akademi Award
2009
PartnerK.L. Srinivasa Murthy
Children2

Janaki Srinivasa Murthy (born 12 February 1945), popularly known by her penname Vaidehi, is an Indian feminist writer and well-known writer of modern Kannada language fiction. Vaidehi is one of the most successful women writers in the language and a recipient of prestigious national and state-level literary awards. She has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for her collection of short stories, Krauncha Pakshigalu in 2009.