# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/t-v-venkatachala-sastry
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:58:33.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/t-v-venkatachala-sastry"
name: "T. V. Venkatachala Sastry"
slug: "t-v-venkatachala-sastry"
description: "Togere Venkatasubbasastry Venkatachala Sastry, commonly known as T. V. Venkatachala Shastry, is a Kannada-language writer, grammarian, critic, editor and lexicographer. He has authored in excess of 100 books, translations and has edited collections of essays, biographical sketches and felicitation volumes. Recipient of the Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award (honorary), Sastry is an authority on Kannada language grammar and its various facets ranging from the metre scale on which he has written extensively to the history of Kannada literature spanning two millennia."
tagline: "Kannada writer, lexicographer, grammar expert, critic and editor"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1933-08-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump