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God's own language

Viswanadha Satyanarayana (1895-1976) was the first Telugu writer to be given the Jnanpith award. Now, in scholar Velcheru Narayana Rao's translation, we have two of his novellas available in English.

Rao describes these as 'oral novels'-Satyanarayana was given to dictating his books

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