Vijaya Dabbe (1 June 1951 – 23 February 2018) was an Indian writer, feminist, scholar and critic in Kannada language.

[2][3][4] Vijaya was born on 1 June 1951 in Dabbe village of Belur taluk, to Krishnamurthy and Seethalakshmi.

[5] She finished her schooling in Kalasapura and Javagal, later moved to Hassan and Mysuru to do higher education.

Dabbe was the front face in leading these activities through her poems, articles, workshops, literary meetings and social works all over Karnataka.

(From Vijaya Dabbe’s poem "Naarimanige Ondu Kivimatu" (Advice to Gentlewomen).