Srinivas Rayaprol

Son of Dr. Rayaprolu Subba Rao, the “father of modern Telugu poetry,” Srinivas Rayaprol was born in 1925 in Secunderabad. He studied in Nizam College, Hyderabad and at the Banaras Hindu University before going to Stanford University from where he obtained a M.S. in Civil Engineering. While in the U.S., he started writing poetry in English and interacted closely with writers like William Carlos Williams, Yvor Winters, and James Laughlin.

Satya Dash wins the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize 2020

Satya Dash,a 29-year old poet and independent artist based in Bangalore, has been chosen for the 12th Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize. Dash, who grew up in Cuttack, Odisha, was selected from a field of 180 contestants from all over the country by a jury consisting of the well-known poet and writer, Mamang Dai, and two faculty members from the Department of English, University of Hyderabad.  Huzaifa Pandit, Stuti Pachisia, and Pervin Saket are the other poets who made it to the jury’s shortlist.

The winner of the 9th Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize, Debarshi Mitra received the Prize from Prof. Sachidananda Mohanty, of the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, and currently Vice Chancellor, Central University Odisha, Koraput Prof. Usha Raman, Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad read her...