T. R. Subba Rao (1920–1984) (
Taluku Ramaswami Subba Rao , popularly known as
TaRaSu) was a novelist and a scholar in
Kannada language. He is considered as a harbinger of the Navya movement of
Kannada literature. He is well known for his novels like
Durgashtamana, which won him the
Sahitya Akademi award posthumously in 1985.