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| image = Bhargavi Rao1 (cropped).JPG
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| name = Bhargavi Prabhanjan Rao
| caption =
| pseudonym =
| birth_date = 14 August 1944
| birth_place = [[Bellary]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br/>(now in [[Karnataka]], India)
| death_date = 23 May 2008
| death_place = [[Hyderabad]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], India<br/>(now in [[Telangana]], India)
| occupation = Author, Professor, translator, Poet
| nationality = Indian
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| genre = Fiction
| subject =
| notableworks = ''Noorella Panta''
| website =

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'''Bhargavi Prabhanjan Rao''' (14 August 1944 – 23 May 2008), a [[Sahitya Akademi]] Awardee, was an eminent translator in [[Telugu language|Telugu]] Literature. She was actively involved in translating various works of author and playwright [[Girish Karnad]]. Her most famous works include ''Noorella Panta'', a compilation of one hundred short stories by women writers of the twentieth century. She died due to a heart attack on 23 May 2008 in [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]].

==Early life==
Bhargavi Rao was born to Santhy and Narahari Rao Tagat in [[Bellary]], [[Karnataka]] into a [[Kannada people|Kannadiga]] family. She was the eldest of 5 siblings, two brothers and two sisters - Venkatesh and Prasad, Gayathri and Padmaja. She also appeared as a child actress in two regional films, and lent her voice to radio as well. She then married Prabhanjan Rao, and continued with her studies in the field of [[English Literature]], before achieving a master's degree from [[Osmania University]]. She went on to do her PhD in [[Osmania University]], thus earning the title of Dr. Bhargavi P. Rao. She then taught English at [[Osmania University]] (first at Women's College, Koti and then at Nizam College), till her retirement in 2004. After retiring, she was appointed Honorary Professor in the [[Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University|Potti Sriramulu Telugu University]] in Hyderabad.

==Personal life==
She married Prabhanjan Rao in June, 1960 at [[Tirupati (city)|Tirupati]]. She has 3 daughters, Mithravinda, Sharvani, and Sushmitha. She has 6 grandchildren - Vaishnavi, Pradyumna, Maya, Mukund, Vaikunt and Saaketh. She has been living at Santoshnagar, [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]] since 1977.

==Literary works==
Her publications in Telugu include Album and Needala Godalu (Poems), Gundelo thadi, Chukka Navvindi and NaaPeru (Short stories), Abhisarika, Thoorpu Gaali (Novels), Pranava Ganga (dance ballet), and Saugandhika (monologue);she also co-authored Urvasi, a Kuchipudi dance ballet, with Varanasi Nagalakshmi. Her translations of Girish Karnad's [[Kannada]] plays are: Naagamandala, Hayavadana, Taladandam, Tughluq and Agni Varsham. Her other translations are Siri Sampenga and Kathaga Maarina Ammayi. Among her anthologies, other than Noorella Panta, are Mudra (women poets), Nooru Varahalu (short stories), Inkaanaa! Ikapai Saagadu (Dalit stories), Aaha!Oho! (humorous stories).<ref name="Literary Works">{{cite web|url=http://www.prismbooks.com/|title=Prism Books - Literary Works of Bhargavi Rao|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Prism Books Co.|accessdate=25 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429230603/http://www.prismbooks.com/|archive-date=29 April 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Various of her translated plays, have gone on to become famous within the State of Andhra Pradesh.

Collaborating with Dr. Bhargavi Rao was P Jayalakshmi, they translated and published Seela Subhadra Devi's full-length poem Yudham Oka Gunde Kotha into English as War a Heart's Ravage in March 2003<ref name="Translation of poems">{{cite web|url=http://www.anukriti.net/vol2/article12/page1.asp|title=Translating Poems|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=Anukriti.net|accessdate=25 May 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923172500/http://www.anukriti.net/vol2/article12/page1.asp|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Her publications in English include Pebbles on the Sea Shore (short stories), Hiccups (poems), and Meru Kanchana (Novel), Colours and Cadences: Poems from the Romantic Age (co-edited with T. Vijay Kumar). She has translated several works into English and also has academic works to her credit.
She was also actively involved in contributing to a Literary e-journal, [[Muse India]].<ref name="Bhargavi P Rao's Profile">{{cite web|url=http://www.museindia.com/mdisedit.asp?id=5|title=Muse India|publisher=Muse India|accessdate=25 May 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009131540/http://www.museindia.com/mdisedit.asp?id=5|archivedate=9 October 2007}}</ref>

Her last piece of work was "Putra Kameshti" which won the runner-up prize in a contest conducted by Swathi Magazine

==Awards and recognition==
Her translation of Girish Karnad's play, [[Taledanda]], won her the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in 1995.<ref name="Sahitya Akademi Award">{{cite web|url=http://sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa521.htm#telugu|title=Sahitya Akademi Awards|publisher=Central Sahitya Akademi|accessdate=25 May 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420161435/http://www.sahitya-akademi.org/sahitya-akademi/awa521.htm#telugu|archivedate=20 April 2008|df=dmy}}</ref> She is also recipient of PS Telugu University Award (1999), Sakhya Sahiti Award (2000) and Grihalakshmi Award (2001).<ref name="Other Awards">{{cite web|url=http://www.tlca.com/events/bhargavi-sudha-movie/index.html|title=TLCA Awards|publisher=TLCA|accessdate=25 May 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203091025/http://www.tlca.com/events/bhargavi-sudha-movie/index.html|archivedate=3 February 2010}}</ref>
Bhargavi Rao was a member of the [[Telugu Association of North America]] ([[TANA]]) and [[Telugu Literary and Cultural Association]]<ref name="Member of TLCA">{{cite web|url=http://www.tlca.com/events/bhargavi-sudha-movie/index.html|title=Meet and Greet Bhargavi and Sudha - TLCA Article|publisher=TLCA|accessdate=25 May 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100203091025/http://www.tlca.com/events/bhargavi-sudha-movie/index.html|archivedate=3 February 2010}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Kannada]]
*[[Kannada literature]]
*[[Telugu literature]]
*[[Women's writing in English|Women's writing]]

==Footnotes==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140429194049/http://www.museindia.com/authprofile.asp?id=5 Bhargavi Rao's Profile on Muse India]
*[http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/6103453/used/Sinner,%20Saint:%20A%20Telugu%20Novel%20in%20Translation Sinner, Saint, Bhargavi Rao's book]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080511224559/http://www.thulika.net/2002December/mansHvn.html Man's Heaven, a short story by Bhargavi Rao translated into English]

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