Tallapaka Tirumalamma

Tallapaka Tirumalamma or Timmakka was a Telugu poet who wrote Subhadra Kalyanam in Telugu. She was wife of singer-poet Annamacharya and was popularly known as Timmakka.

Biography

Timmakka was born into a Niyogi Brahmin family. She is considered as the first Telugu woman poet.
Timmakka's main work, Subhadra Kalyanam with 1170 poems, is about the marriage of Arjuna and Subhadra, characters in Hindu epic Mahabharata. She presented the Telugu nativity and culture in the story taken from Sanskrit epic.