Name Abburi Chayadevi | Role Fiction writer | |
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'Akari Idu Nakshtralu' by Abburi Chayadevi | Vandella Kathaku Vandanalu | hmtv Telugu Lessa
Abburi Chayadevi is a Telugu fiction writer, born on 13 October 1933 in Rajahmundry, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. She has won Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu for the Year 2005, for her work Tana Margam (Short Stories). Chaya Devi is the wife of the late Abburi Varadarajeswara Rao, himself a writer, critic and former Chairman, Official Languages Commission.
Contents
- Akari Idu Nakshtralu by Abburi Chayadevi Vandella Kathaku Vandanalu hmtv Telugu Lessa
- Smt Abburi Chayadevis Bommala Koluvu
- Early life
- Works
- Awards
- References
She is also the daughter-in-law of Abburi Ramakrishna, a pioneer of the romantic first and later the progressive literary movement.
Smt. Abburi Chayadevi's Bommala Koluvu
Early life
Chaya Devi has been active in literary circles since the fifties and even at 71 years of age, is still known as a creative feminist writer. She has also translated German fiction. Her stories have been translated into English and Spanish besides many Indian languages. She has served as librarian at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in the sixties.
She was a council member of Kendra Sahitya Akademi (1998-2002).