请输入您要查询的百科知识:

 

词条 Illindala Saraswati Devi
释义

  1. Biography

  2. Works

  3. Recognition

  4. References

  5. Further reading

  6. External links

{{Infobox writer
| name = Illindala Saraswati Devi
| image =
| image_size =
| image_upright =
| caption =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1918}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1998|1918}}
| death_place =
| occupation = Novelist, short story writer, biographer, essayist and social worker
| language = Telugu
| residence =
| nationality = Indian
| education =
| alma_mater =
| home_town =
| period =
| genre =
| subject =
| movement =
| spouse =
| children =
| relatives =
| awards = Sahitya Akademi Award (1982)
| signature =
| years_active =
}}

Illindala Saraswati Devi (1918–1998) was a Telugu novelist, short story writer, biographer, essayist and social worker from Andhra Pradesh, India. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1982 for her short story collection, Swarnakamalalu.

Biography

Saraswati Devi was born in 1918 in Andhra Pradesh, India. She started the Andhra Yuvati Mandali, a women's educational and social organization in 1936. Some time after 1950, she completed a course in journalism at Osmania University. Subsequently she published several short stories in journals such as Bharati and Sujata. She served as a member of the both central and state Film Award Committees. She was a nominated member of the State Legislative Council from 1958 to 1966.[1][2]

Works

She has published over forty works, including twelve novels, several plays, and essays, biographies and short stories. She has used literature as a way of upholding ethical and cultural values. Her short story collection Swarnakamalalu depicts{{According to whom|date=March 2019}} the multiplicity of human experience, insights into personal personal relationships, a progressive outlook and an engrossing style.[2] She has also written children's literature, including a concise biography of Mahatma Gandhi,[3] and Mahatmudu Mahila (Gandhiji's View about Woman), published in 1969 by Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi.[4]

Her other significant works are the novels: Muthyalu Manasu (1962; Muthtalu's heart), Darijerina Pranulu (1963; Lives That Have Reached the Shore), Tejomurtulu (1976; Icons of Light) and Akkaraku Vacchina Chuttamu (1967, A Helpful Relative); and the short story collection: Raja Hamsalu (1981, The Royal Swans). She has written over a hundred short stories which have since been published as a collection, Swarnakamalalu.[1]

Recognition

In appreciation of her services to literature she was honoured in 1964 with the Grihalakshmi Sanstha Gold Bangle Award. The Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi awarded her the Besr Woman Writer Award in 1974. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1982 for her short story collection, Swarnakamalalu.[2]

References

1. ^{{cite book|editor1=Susie J. Tharu|editor2=Ke Lalita|title=Women Writing in India: The twentieth century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OjZYf9Xf9bcC&pg=PA154|year=1991|publisher=Feminist Press at CUNY|location=New York|isbn=978-1-55861-029-3|page=154}}
2. ^{{cite book|author1=Amaresh Datta|author2=Mohan Lal|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Navaratri-Sarvasena|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sOsbAAAAIAAJ|year=2007|edition=4th|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|pages=3818|isbn=978-81-260-1003-1|ignore-isbn-error=true}}
3. ^{{cite book|editor-last=JAMUNA|editor-first=K. A.|title=Children's Literature in Indian Languages|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KS0nDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT208|year=2017|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting|isbn=978-81-230-2456-1|page=208}}
4. ^{{cite book|editor-last=Datta|editor-first=Amaresh|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&pg=PA1363|year=1988|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-1194-0|page=1363}}

Further reading

  • {{cite journal|last=ANJANEYLU|first=D.|title=Illindala Saraswati Devi|journal=Indian Literature|date=September-October 1981|volume=24|issue=5|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|pages=169–173|jstor=23331096}}{{closed access}}

External links

  • {{Gbooks-author|Illindala Saraswati Devi}}
{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Devi, Illindala Saraswati}}

9 : 1918 births|1998 deaths|Telugu people|Telugu women writers|Telugu writers|Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu|20th-century Indian women writers|20th-century Indian novelists|20th-century Indian short story writers

随便看

 

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识,基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识,是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

 

Copyright © 2023 OENC.NET All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/9/23 9:38:14