Anasuya Shankar (1 September 1928 – 29 July 1963), popularly known by her pen name as Triveni, was an Indian writer of modern fiction in Kannada language.

Her short-stories collection Samasyeya Magu won the Devaraja Bahadur Prize in 1950.

[1] She married S. N. Shankar (1925–2012) in 1951, an English professor at Sarada Vilas College, Mysore.

[1] Anasuya died of pulmonary embolism on 29 July 1963, ten days after giving birth to Meera, from her third pregnancy after two miscarriages, at the Mission Hospital in Mysore.

[6] Her novels mainly contained stories based on the psychological issues faced by women, their emotions and frustrations.