Palagummi Padmaraju

Palagummi Padmaraju aka, P. Padmaraju is a Telugu writer and poet. He was born on the 24th of June 1915 in Tirupatipuram, west Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. After his graduation, he started his career as a teacher. He worked in the government P.R college, Kakinada as a science lecturer for the period from 1939-1952. He then started publishing his works and the first published one among them was a short story called Subbi. He wrote about sixty short stories. Some of the novels published by him was batikina college, nalla regadi, ramarajyaniki rahadaari and rendo ashokudi munalla palana.

He also contributed to the Telugu cinema industry by writing dialogues and songs for movies. The list of movies for which he worked was: Bangaru Papa (1954), Bhagya Rekha (1957), Bhakta Sabari (1960), Shanti Nivasam It is a dramatic daily-soap Telugu show aired on E >> Read More... (1960), Bikari Ramudu (1961), Bangaru Panjaram Bangaru Panjaram is a Telugu TV serial that airs o >> Read More... (1965), Rangula Ratnam Rangula Ratnam is a Telugu drama series. It first >> Read More... (1966), Sri Rajeshwari Vilas Coffee Club (1976), Sardar Paparayudu (1980), Stri (1995) He also received some awards for his precious contribution like, Sahitya Akademi Award to Telugu Writers for Galivana in 1985 and also his short story Cyclone won an international prize conducted by New York Herald Tribune in 1952.