Govindaray Hammanna Nayak (18 September 1933 – 26 May 2023) was an Indian writer and academic.

A professor of Kannada at University of Mysore, he was awarded the Central Sahitya Akademi Award for his work Sanskrit Chintana in 2014 [citation needed] Nayak was born in Soorve near Ankola, a village in coastal Karnataka, India.

In 1951, Nayak earned his high school diploma from Peoples Multi-purpose High School, Ankola and a M. A. in Kannada from University of Mysore.

Nayak died on 26 May 2023, at the age of 89.

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