- Kavikondala Venkata Rao
Kavikondala Venkata Rao (
20 July 1892 —4 July 1969 ) was aTelugu language writer fromAndhra Pradesh ,India .Born at Srirangapattanam in
East Godavari District 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, MrOswald Couldrey , the principal of Government College,Rajahmundry . Adivi Bapiraju, Damerla Ramarao, and Kavikondal Venkatarao were good friends of Mr. Couldrey. Kavikondala started writing poetry in English at age of 16 but Mr. Couldrey encouraged him to write songs in Telugu. He passed away inGuntur .External links
*http://govtcollegerjy.info/aboutus/legends.htm
*http://www.bhaavana.net/telusa/apr97/0056.html
*http://www.oswaldcouldrey.co.uk/
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