Devanahalli Venkataramanaiah Gundappa (17 March 1887 – 7 October 1975), popularly known as DVG, was an Indian writer, poet, and philosopher in the Kannada language. He is one of the stalwarts of modern Kannada literature. His most notable work is the Mankuthimmana Kagga ("Dull Thimma's Rigmarole," 1943), which is similar to the wisdom poems of the late medieval poet Sarvajna. DVG was a pioneer in writing biographies in Kannada. He understood that human traits were the basic material for both creative and biographical writing. The book Dadabhai Navaroji, which he wrote in 1950, is, in a way, his experiment with biographical writing. DVG's first biography of Rangacharlu virtually reveals the author's abundant interest in politics, deep public sympathy, and a faith firmly rooted in democracy. These values, held by the author, were reiterated in his second biography of Gopalakrishna Gokhale.