Kendra Sahitya Akademi award for Velcheru Narayana Rao
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Renowned Telugu creator Velcheru Narayana Rao has been chosen for the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award.
Born in Koppaka close to Eluru in West Godavari district, he did an MA from Andhra Viswa Kala Parishat and secured a diploma in linguistics from Osmania University in 1970.
The subsequent yr, he began working within the Department of South Asian Studies on the University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.
A critic, researcher and translator of Telugu literature, Prof. Rao is the creator of a number of books on Telugu literature and historical past. His publications embrace Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam, A Play from Colonial India, God on the Hills: Temple Songs from Tirupati, which he co-authored with David Shulman, Textures of Time: Writing History in South India, co-authored with Sanjay Subrahmanyam and David Shulman and Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry from India.
Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan congratulated Prof. Rao.He stated Prof. Rao deserved the award as he was referred to as a strolling encyclopedia of Telugu literature.
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