Storyteller-writer Nataraja Huliyar hails from Huliyar in Tumkur district. He holds a Masters (M.A.) in English Literature and a Ph. D. in ‘Modernity and Heritage in Modern African and Kannada Literatures’. He is currently a Professor of English at the Centre for Kannada Studies, Bangalore University.
Another dictator, Basavalingappa and David Saheb, have written Mayakinnari (collections of stories), The Death of Metaphors (poems), Gaibelaku (cultural writings), Modernity and Heritage in African and Kannada Literatures (comparative studies), Inthi Namaskaragal (creative narrative on Lankesh-D.R. Nagaraj), Shakespeare Came Home (play), Shantaveri Gopalagowda (biography), Kamana Hunnime (novel), Kannadi (Prajavani column writings).
Green Warrior, Open Text, Shakespeare: Kannada Spandana; African Literary Reading, Lohia Thought (Edited Works)
The Groundwater of Independence, North and South, Language and History, Questions Before the Eyes, Unity of Mankind; Marx, Gandhi, Socialism; Questions Before the Eyes (Edited Works of Lohia Kannada Translations), 11 works of Lok Sahitya Series; 15 works of Bharatiya Bhasha Natak Series.
Karnataka Sahitya Academy Sahityashri Award (2017), Karnataka Sahitya Academy Awards (1994, 2002, 2009) Madhyamika Academy's B.R. Ambedkar Mookanayaka Award; He has won the Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan Award, Shivarama Karanth Award, V.M. Inandar Criticism Award, Prajavani Diwali Kathaspardhe-1986 first prize, Delhi Katha Award for the best Kannada story of the 1990-2000 decade for 'Mayakinnari', and 'Mayura' monthly's 'Varshada Katha-2010' award for the story 'Basavalingappavaru awaru David Sahebaru'.