Vaidehi is one of the most successful women writers in the language and a recipient of prestigious national and state-level literary awards.

[2] She has won the Sahitya Akademi Award for her collection of short stories, Krauncha Pakshigalu in 2009.

[3] Vaidehi was born on 12 February 1945 to A. V. N. Hebbar (father) and Mahalakshmi (mother) in Kundapura taluk of Udupi district, Karnataka.

Vaidehi's daughter Nayana Kashyap is a translator, Kannada writer and English teacher.

Beautiful essays Vaidehi has won numerous awards for her writings in Kannada.