Velcheru Narayana Rao
Indian author, critic, and literary translator
About Velcheru Narayana Rao
Born 1933. Velcheru Narayana Rao is an Indian literary scholar, literary critic and translator.
Velcheru Narayana Rao is an Indian author, critic, and literary translator. He is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Department of South Asian Studies. His work is primarily focused on Telugu literature for which he received the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour conferred by Sahitya Akademi, in February 2021.
Early life Velcheru Narayana Rao was born in Ambakhandi, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, India. He later moved to Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. He obtained his M.A. from Andhra University in 1968, and later obtained a diploma in linguistics from Osmania University in 1970.
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Indian author, critic, and literary translator
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