Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani is no more

​Hyderabad: Trend-setting novelist Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani passed away in California (US) after suffering a massive heart attack late on Saturday. She was 78. She ruled the novel world for three decades from late 60s to 80s. The novelist who shot to instant fame with her maiden work – Secretary – was born in Kaza of Krishna district in 1940.

Although she didn’t have much of educational qualifications, it was her novels that reflected the lives of middleclass catapulted her to a pinnacle that no other modern-age writer managed to emulate her. Of the total 74 novels, a host of them were made into films and televised, and they still stand coeval to the present-day life. She is survived by her daughter Shailaja.

Sources close to her family said that Yaddanapudi’s last rites will be performed in California. Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Chief Ministers K Chandrasekhar Rao and N Chandrababu Naidu condoled the death of Sulochana Rani.