English scholar Annaiah Gowda dead

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">MYSORE: Retired English Professor of Mysore University H.H. Annaiah Gowda (75) died here on Thursday evening. He was 75. He is survived by hiswife and two daughters.<br />Born in 1927, Annaiah Gowda was a prominent English teacher in the First Grade College, Mysore (now Yuvaraja''s College) in the 1950s.<br />Gowda was the director, Institute of Commonwealth and American Studies and English Language.He was a Fulbright professor, Asian professor, and visiting professor at many universities in the USA and Britain.<br />Some of his important publications include <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">The Revival of English Poetic Drama</span>, <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Dramatic Poetry in Mediaeval and Modern Times</span>, and <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Shakespeare Turned East</span> (in collaboration with Henry Wells). He had translated Orwell''s <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Animal Farm</span> and <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">1984</span> into Kannada. He had edited the publication <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">A Garland for E.M. Forster</span>. He was the founder-editor of the <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Literary Half-Yearly Journal</span> and had recently published the <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Encyclopaedia of Commonwealth Literature</span>, considered as a significant contribution to English literature. </div> </div>