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'''Abburi Chayadevi''' (13 October 1933 in [[Rajahmundry]], [[East Godavari district]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]<ref name="book">{{Cite book|last1=Dutt|first1=Kartik Chandra|year=1999|title=Who's who of Indian Writers, 1999: A-M|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QA1V7sICaIwC&q=Abburi+Chayadevi&pg=PA242|isbn=9788126008735}}</ref> – 28 June 2019 in [[Hyderabad]], [[Telangana]]) was a [[Telugu language|Telugu]] Indian fiction writer. She won the [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Telugu|Sahitya Akademi Award]] in Telugu for the Year 2005, for her work '''Tana Margam''' (Short Stories).<ref name=knowindia>[http://knowindia.gov.in/knowindia/general_info.php?id=7 Sahitya Akademi Awards 2005 - General Information - Know India: National Portal of India<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140922161646/http://knowindia.gov.in/knowindia/general_info.php?id=7 |date=22 September 2014 }}</ref><ref name=hindu>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/2005/12/23/stories/2005122319170200.htm | date=23 December 2005 | newspaper=[[The Hindu]] | title=Sahitya Akademi award for Abburi Chaya Devi | accessdate=6 October 2018 }}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Chaya Devi was active in literary circles since the fifties and even in her 70s, was still known as a creative feminist writer. She also translated German fiction. Her stories have been translated into English and Spanish besides many Indian languages.<ref name=womenswriting>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071030002430/http://www.womenswriting.com/WomensWriting/AuthorProfileDetail.asp?AuthorID=100 Women's Writing<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><br />
She served as librarian at the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[New Delhi]] in the sixties.<ref name="hindu" /><br />
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She was a council member of Kendra [[Sahitya Akademi]] (1998-2002).<ref name="book" /><br />
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Chayadevi's husband, [[Abburi Varadarajeswara Rao]], was a writer, critic and former Chairman of the [[Official Languages Commission]].<br />
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She was also the daughter-in-law of [[Abburi Ramakrishna Rao]], a pioneer of the romantic first and later the progressive literary movement.<ref name="hindu" /><br />
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== Works ==<br />
*''Anaga Anaga'' (folk stories for children)<ref name="book" /><br />
*Abburi Chaya Devi Kathalu(short stories), 1991<ref name="book" /><br />
*Mrityunjaya(long story),1993<ref name="womenswriting" /><br />
*Tana Margam(short stories-about the exploitation of women in the guise of family bonds.<ref name="knowindia" /><br />
*Mana Jeevithalu-Jiddu Krishnamurti Vyakhyanalu–3(Translated)<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-bookreview/KANNADA/article15132578.ece | title=KANNADA | newspaper=The Hindu | date=8 February 2011 | accessdate=6 October 2018 }}</ref><br />
*Parichita Lekha published as an anthology (Translation of stories by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig)<ref name=museindia>{{Cite web |url=http://www.museindia.com/viewarticle.asp?myr=2011&issid=40&id=2927 |title=Welcome to Muse India<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=18 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100718/http://www.museindia.com/viewarticle.asp?myr=2011&issid=40&id=2927 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><br />
*Bonsai Batukulu [Bonsai Lives] portrays the life of women who live mechanically under the control of family members.<ref name="museindia" /> Conclusion<br />
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== Awards ==<br />
*Ranganayakamma Pratibha Puraskaram,2003<ref name="book" /><br />
*Telugu University Award, 1996<ref name="book" /><br />
*Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu for the Year 2005<ref name="knowindia" /><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:2019 deaths]]<br />
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[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian women writers]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian novelists]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Rajahmundry]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian short story writers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian women children's writers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian children's writers]]<br />
[[Category:Women writers from Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
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