Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize

06 August 2010
Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize
Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize
Website: Undisclosed
Email Address: rayaproltrust@gmail.com
Editor/Consultant: Aparna Rayaprol
Country: India
Type: Writers' Prize

Description: The Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust was started in the year 2000 to perpetuate the memory of the poet and also promote Indian writing in English. Srinivas Rayaprol (1925-1998), the son of the famous Telugu poet Rayaprolu Subba Rao, is considered one of the significant personalities of the early Indian English Poetry in India. His three major volumes of poetry are Bones and Distances, Married Love and Other Poems, and Selected Poems, all published by Writers’ Workshop in Calcutta. The Rayaprol family launched the Srinivas Rayaprol Literary trust to perpetuate his memory and to promote Indian writing in English. The Prize was instituted by the Srinivas Rayaprol Literary Trust to recognize excellence in poetry written in English and is being administered jointly by the Department of English, University of Hyderabad. The prize consisting of a cash award of Rs.10,000 and a citation will be presented at a literary event in Hyderabad in the month of October. The entries will be judged by a distinguished jury of poets and literary personalities.

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