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Nellutla Venugopal (b.1961) is a prolific author who works in and across many genres and fields. He lives in Hyderabad, in the south Indian state of Telangana. He is a poet, essayist, literary critic, historian, socio-political-economic analyst, journalist, reviewer and public speaker who writes in both Telugu and English, and translates both ways between these languages. A trained economist, he has been involved in literature and the arts since his teenage years, as his maternal uncle, the renowned Telugu poet, Varavara Rao, used to run a highly-respected Telugu literary monthly, Srjana (‘Creation’) in which he became involved.

Nellutla Venugopal began to publish his own poems when he was thirteen years old and in his twenties he became a well-known translator and literary critic. Since his thirties, he has been a much sought-after public speaker. Over the last three decades of publications, he has published thirty original books in Telugu and English, as well as around twenty-five books of translations from English intoTelugu, including poetry, short stories, novels, literary criticism, and works on economics, history, politics and Marxism. In addition, many of his uncollected writings have appeared in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Since 2005 he has edited the Telugu monthly journal on social, political and economic matters, Veekshanam.

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