Sahitya Akademi Award winners feted
Update: 2018-01-25 06:33 IST
Visakhapatnam: Governor ESL Narasimhan felicitated Telugu poet and senior journalist Devi Priya and Telugu writer Venna Vallabha Rao for bagging Sahitya Akademi Award-2017 here on Wednesday.
Speaking on the occasion, Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad said that Devi Priya is known as the father of the Telugu poetic cartoon strip, one of the best in his works include Amma Chettu (Mother tree).
Venna Vallabha Rao bagged the Sahitya Akademi Award for translation for his ‘Viramam Erugani Payanam’. HRD Minister Ganta Srinivas Rao, Andhra University Vice-Chancellor G Nageswara Rao, Rector Gayatri Devi, Registrar V Uma Maheshwara Rao and others officials were present.