Abburi Chayadevi
Abburi Chayadevi was a Telugu Indian fiction writer. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Telugu|Sahitya Akademi Award] in 2005 for Tana Margam.
Biography
Chayadevi was born 13 October 1933 in Rajahmundry, India.Chayadevi was active in literary circles since the fifties and even in her 70s, was still known as a creative feminist writer. She was born in a brahmin family She also translated German fiction. Her stories have been translated into English and Spanish besides many Indian languages.
She served as librarian at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in the sixties.
She was a council member of Kendra Sahitya Akademi.
Chayadevi's husband, Abburi Varadarajeswara Rao, was a writer, critic and former Chairman of the Official Languages Commission.
She was also the daughter-in-law of Abburi Ramakrishna Rao, a pioneer of the romantic first and later the progressive literary movement.
Chayadevi died 28 June 2019 in Hyderabad, Telangana.
Works
- Anaga Anaga
- Abburi Chaya Devi Kathalu, 1991
- Mrityunjaya, 1993
- Tana Margam.
- Mana Jeevithalu-Jiddu Krishnamurti Vyakhyanalu–3
- Parichita Lekha published as an anthology
- Bonsai Batukulu portrays the life of women who live mechanically under the control of family members. Conclusion