Abburi Chayadevi Explained

Abburi Chayadevi (1933–2019) was a Telugu Indian fiction writer. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 for Tana Margam.

Biography

Chayadevi was born 13 October 1933 in Rajahmundry, India.^[1]

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^[2] She also translated German fiction. Her stories have been translated into English and Spanish besides many Indian languages.^[3] She served as librarian at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in the sixties.^[4]

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

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 (folk stories for children)
• Abburi Chaya Devi Kathalu (short stories), 1991
• Mrityunjaya (long story), 1993
• Tana Margam (short stories-about the exploitation of women in the guise of family bonds).^[5]
• 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. Conclusion

Awards

• Ranganayakamma Pratibha Puraskaram,2003
• Telugu University Award, 1996
• Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu for the Year 2005

Notes and References

1. Book: Dutt . Kartik Chandra . Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M . 1999 . 9788126008735.
2. News: 2019-06-28. Writer Abburi Chaya Devi passes away. en-IN. The Hindu. 2022-01-16. 0971-751X.
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20071030002430/http://www.womenswriting.com/WomensWriting/AuthorProfileDetail.asp?AuthorID=100 Women's Writing
4. News: 23 December 2005 . Sahitya Akademi award for Abburi Chaya Devi . . 6 October 2018.
5. Web site: Home | Know India: National Portal of India . https://web.archive.org/web/20140922161646/http://knowindia.gov.in/knowindia/general_info.php?id=7 . 22 September 2014 . knowindia.india.gov.in . dead.
6. News: Kannada . The Hindu . 8 February 2011 . 6 October 2018 .
7. Web site: Welcome to Muse India . 18 August 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100718/http://www.museindia.com/viewarticle.asp?myr=2011&issid=40&id=2927 . 4 March 2016 . dead . dmy-all .