Abburi Chayadevi

Abburi Chayadevi (13 October 1933 in Rajahmundry, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh[1] – 28 June 2019 in Hyderabad, Telangana) was a Telugu Indian fiction writer. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005, for her work Tana Margam (Short Stories).[2][3]

Biography

Chaya Devi 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[4] She also translated German fiction. Her stories have been translated into English and Spanish besides many Indian languages.[5] She served as librarian at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in the sixties.[3]

She was a council member of Kendra Sahitya Akademi (1998-2002).[1]

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.[3]

Works
  • Anaga Anaga (folk stories for children)[1]
  • Abburi Chaya Devi Kathalu (short stories), 1991[1]
  • Mrityunjaya (long story), 1993[5]
  • Tana Margam (short stories-about the exploitation of women in the guise of family bonds).[2]
  • Mana Jeevithalu-Jiddu Krishnamurti Vyakhyanalu–3 (Translated)[6]
  • Parichita Lekha published as an anthology (Translation of stories by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig)[7]
  • Bonsai Batukulu [Bonsai Lives] portrays the life of women who live mechanically under the control of family members.[7] Conclusion

Awards
  • Ranganayakamma Pratibha Puraskaram,2003[1]
  • Telugu University Award, 1996[1]
  • Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu for the Year 2005[2]

References
  1. Dutt, Kartik Chandra (1999). Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M. ISBN 9788126008735.
  2. Sahitya Akademi Awards 2005 - General Information - Know India: National Portal of India Archived 22 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Sahitya Akademi award for Abburi Chaya Devi". The Hindu. 23 December 2005. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  4. "Writer Abburi Chaya Devi passes away". The Hindu. 28 June 2019. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  5. Women's Writing
  6. "KANNADA". The Hindu. 8 February 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  7. "Welcome to Muse India". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2013.


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