Kavikondala Venkata Rao (

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: కవికొండల వెంకటరావు) (20 July 1892 – 4 July 1969) was a

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writer from

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. Born at Srirangapattanam in

East Godavari District East Godavari is a district in the Coastal Andhra region of Andhra Pradesh, India. Its district headquarters is at Rajahmundry. As of census 2011, it became the most populous district of the state with a population of 5,151,549. In the Madras Pre ...

he started writing in 1910. Over the next five decades he produced two hundred and plus short stories, two novels (''Vijanasadanamu'' and ''Inupa kota''), hundreds of poems and songs and lyrical ballads. He was popularly known as a poet of nature and dubbed the "Andhra Wordsworth" by his friend and mentor poet-painter, Mr Oswald Couldrey, the principal of Government Arts College,

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. Adivi Bapiraju,

Damerla Rama Rao Damerla Rama Rao (8 March 1897, in Rajahmundry – 6 February 1925) was an Indian artist. He was born to Physician Damerla Venkata Rama Rao and Lakshmi Devi as a second child in the group of five girls and four boys. Rao was married to Satya ...

, and Kavikondala Venkatarao were good friends of Mr. O. J. Couldrey. Kavikondala started writing poetry in

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at age of 16 but Mr. Couldrey encouraged him to write songs in Telugu. He died in

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. File:Kavikondala Venkata Rao's 'Selected Poems' book.jpg, This is a book of Kavikondala Venkata Rao's poems, titled as 'WELCOME: Selected Poems', which has 60 of his poetry works!

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20080907144606/http://govtcollegerjy.info/aboutus/legends.htm *http://www.bhaavana.net/telusa/apr97/0056.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20090419195150/http://www.oswaldcouldrey.co.uk/ 1892 births 1969 deaths Telugu writers People from East Godavari district Writers from Andhra Pradesh 20th-century Indian short story writers 20th-century Indian poets 20th-century Indian composers Musicians from Andhra Pradesh {{india-writer-stub