Penumarti Viswanatha Sastry
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Penumarti Viswanatha Sastry (born: 2 May, 1929 - died: 25 December, 1998) was a famous Telugu
writer and editor. His pen name is "Ajantha".
He was born in Kesanakurru village in West Godavari district. After primary education at Narsapuram, he graduated and worked in different magazines in Hyderabad and Chennai. He has worked as Chief Sub-editor of Andhra Prabha
daily magazine in Vijayawada. He followed in the line of Srirangam Srinivasa Rao and rose to dizzy heights.
He won the Sahitya Akademi Award
for his Telugu-language poetic work "Swapna Lipi" in 1997.
Telugu language
Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...
writer and editor. His pen name is "Ajantha".
He was born in Kesanakurru village in West Godavari district. After primary education at Narsapuram, he graduated and worked in different magazines in Hyderabad and Chennai. He has worked as Chief Sub-editor of Andhra Prabha
Andhra Prabha
Andhra Prabha is a Telugu daily newspaper launched in 1938. It is a part of the New Indian Express Group of Companies.-Early history:The paper was started from Chennai on August 15, 1938 by Ramnath Goenka to challenge the sway of the leading Telugu newspaper at the time, Andhra Patrika...
daily magazine in Vijayawada. He followed in the line of Srirangam Srinivasa Rao and rose to dizzy heights.
He won the Sahitya Akademi Award
Sahitya Akademi Award
Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languagesAssamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,...
for his Telugu-language poetic work "Swapna Lipi" in 1997.