Penumarti Viswanatha Sastry, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Telugu writer
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About Penumarti Viswanatha Sastry
- Penumarti Viswanatha Sastry (Telugu: ????????? ????????????????) (2 May 1929 – 25 December 1998) was a famous Telugu writer and editor.
- His pen name is "Ajanta". He was born in Kesanakurru village in West Godavari district.
- After primary education at Narsapuram, he graduated and worked in different magazines in Hyderabad and Chennai.
- He has worked as Chief Sub-editor of Andhra Prabha daily magazine in Vijayawada.
- He followed in the line of Srirangam Srinivasa Rao and rose to dizzy heights. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his Telugu-language poetic work "Swapna Lipi" in 1997.
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