Viswanatha Satyanarayana
1895–1976Jnanpith Award winning Telugu writer
writer
Madiraju Ranga Rao
1935–2025, writes in Telugu, poet, literary critic
Madiraju Ranga Rao was an Indian Telugu poet, scholar, and academic. He is best known as the foremost proponent of Swecchaa Kavitvamu, or “Free Verse Poetry”, in modern Telugu literature. Over the course of his career he published approximately 160 collections of free-verse poetry and more than 20 books of literary criticism, alongside scholarship spanning classical Telugu literature, Indian poetics, and Sanskrit literature.
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Also writing in Telugu
Adivi Bapiraju
1895–1952Telugu novelist, playwright and painter
I. Panduranga Rao
1930–2011scholar, poet, writer, linguist and orator of Telugu descent
K. Shivareddy
b. 1943Telugu writer
Ravuri Bharadhwaja
1927–2013Writer who won Jnanpith award in 2012
Singireddy NarayanaReddy
1931–2017Jnanpith awardee and renowned Telugu poet