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Hyderabad: Noted Telugu novelist Malati Chandur passed away on Wednesday at a private hospital in Chennai. She was battling cancer for the past five years and was undergoing treatment for the same at a hospital in Chennai. Her end reportedly came at about 4.30 pm.
She was 83. The body of Malati Chandur, who had pledge her body for scientific research, was taken to Sri Ramachandra Medical College hospital, Porur. Her husband Chandur Nageswara Rao passed away in January 2011.
Malati Chandur wrote more than 25 novels and had more than 300 translations into Telugu to her credit. She was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for her novel Hrudaya Netri, and the ‘Kalaprapoornam’ by the Padmavathi Women’s University.
She and her husband were also recognised by the Lok Nayak Foundation for their contribution to Telugu literature.
Her more famous novels are Champakam, Cheedapurugulu, Aalochinchu, and Sadyogam. She was also a prolific short story writer and published several of stories in weekly magazines.
Malati was born in 1930 in Nuzvid in Krishna district and moved to Eluru later. It was there that she met poets like Sri Sri, who inspired her to take up writing. She married Chnadur Nageswar Rao in 1947 after which they moved to Chennai.
Malati Chandur’s novels offered practical solutions to the problems women encounter in daily life. Most of her novels had a feminist slant.
States: Andhra Pradesh
She was 83. The body of Malati Chandur, who had pledge her body for scientific research, was taken to Sri Ramachandra Medical College hospital, Porur. Her husband Chandur Nageswara Rao passed away in January 2011.
Malati Chandur wrote more than 25 novels and had more than 300 translations into Telugu to her credit. She was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for her novel Hrudaya Netri, and the ‘Kalaprapoornam’ by the Padmavathi Women’s University.
She and her husband were also recognised by the Lok Nayak Foundation for their contribution to Telugu literature.
Her more famous novels are Champakam, Cheedapurugulu, Aalochinchu, and Sadyogam. She was also a prolific short story writer and published several of stories in weekly magazines.
Malati was born in 1930 in Nuzvid in Krishna district and moved to Eluru later. It was there that she met poets like Sri Sri, who inspired her to take up writing. She married Chnadur Nageswar Rao in 1947 after which they moved to Chennai.
Malati Chandur’s novels offered practical solutions to the problems women encounter in daily life. Most of her novels had a feminist slant.
States: Andhra Pradesh
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