Sumathendra Raghavendra Nadig (4 May 1935 – 7 August 2018) was an Indian professor and writer in Kannada.

Nadig's "Dampatya Gita" has been translated into English, Hindi, Bengali and other Indian languages.

His other major poem, "Panchabhut", is considered to be an important and original contribution to modern Indian literature.

Narasimhachar, Ayyappa Panikar, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Manohar Rai Sardesai, and G. S. Shivrudrappa; writers including S. L. Bhyrappa and U. R. Anantha Murthy; and scholars including Kapila Vatsyayan and Sibnarayan Ray.

[1] [2] Some of his stories have been translated into Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, Oriya and English.