Janna McMahan

Janna McMahan is an American author who wrote her first novel when she was in her early thirties. She has published three novels, a novella, and several short stories.

Biography

McMahan was raised in rural Campbellsville, Kentucky. An early reader, she volunteered at her local library when she was eleven, fueling a lifelong desire to write. She earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky and an M.A. from the University of South Carolina, both in Mass Communications. Although she spent many years working in public relations, much of it in the fields of art and entertainment, she frequently wrote freelance articles about visual and literary art. She has also served as a ghost writer for a number of business clients.

Awards and recognition

In 1998, McMahan won the South Carolina Fiction Project a literary competition sponsored by the Post and Courier and the South Carolina Arts Commission, for her short story "The Snag". Her short story "Seed Money" won the 2002 Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Open and "Pluff Mud" won the 2004 Colossal Short Story Contest, sponsored by the Columbia (South Carolina) Free Times.Surface tension, an unpublished short story collection, was a finalist for the 2010 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and won honorable mention in the 2011 competition for the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.Surface Tension was also the winner of the Imaginative Writing Award (Betty Gabehart Fiction Prize) from the Kentucky Women Writers Conference in March 2005. McMahan was recently awarded the distinction of Literary Artist of the Year (2013) by Jasper Magazine, an arts publication in South Carolina.

Janna

Janna (Kannada : ಮಹಾಕವಿ ಜನ್ನ) was one of the well-known Kannada poets of the early 13th century who also served in the capacity of a minister and a builder of temples. He graced the court of Hoysala empire King Veera Ballala II and earned the title Kavichakravarthi ("Emperor among poets"). His noteworthy writings include Yashodhara Charitre (c.1209) which deals with Jain tenets, Ananthnatha Purana (c.1230) which deals with the teachings of the 14th Jain tirthankara and a short piece called Anubhava Mukura. Although all his works are known for the grace and style, Yashodhara Charite is his magnum opus and one of the classics of Kannada literature.

Janna finds an important place in Kannada literature, though he is not as famous as Adikavi Pampa. He came from a family of celebrated Kannada writers; Mallikarjuna, the well known anthologist was his brother-in-law and Kesiraja the grammarian, was his nephew. Janna's style essentially belonged to the classical marga (main stream) brand of Kannada writers and his works were primarily meant to propagate the Jain philosophy.

Janna (disambiguation)

Janna, a well-known Kannada poet of the early 13th century who also served in the capacity of a minister and a builder of temples

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Janna (TV series)

Janna is a German-Polish children's television series set in the 1920s.

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