“Visalandhra Prachuranalayam was publishing books in all the States in India in different languages. The theme of VPH is to collect, promote and preserve Telugu literature and explain the youth about the great writers across the world their writings, translated literatures and the philosophies and cultures of different countries. Madhukar said the book house printed more than 3,000 publications in the last six decades.
Madhukar, Arasam State president Penugonda Lakshminarayana, general secretary Velpula Narayana, writers and poets inaugurated a book ‘Arasam Edupadula Udyama Prastanam’, published by Visalandhra Publishing House, on the occasion. Sahitya Academy Awardee Kethu Viswanatha Reddy, Visalandhra Publishing House executive editor N. Speaking on the occasion, she said Akkiraju Umakantham of Guntur district scripted a novel ‘Balya Vivaham’ 100 years ago, but more than 50 per cent child marriages were being performed in the State. VPH and Arasam, in association with Vattikonda Visalakshi Cultural Trust, presented ‘Visala Sahiti Puraskaram’ to noted writer, Olga. The book house, formed in 1953, has completed 60 years.Ībyudaya Rachayitala Sangam, which completed 70 years and contributed several stories, novels and writings to VPH, is celebrating ‘Arasam Edupadula Udyama Prastanam’, in association with VPH, at Sri Venkateswara Vignana Mandiram in the city on December 27 and 28. Visalandhra Publishing House ( VPH), born from left-oriented movement and ideologies, is celebrating its diamond jubilee in Guntur.
VIJAYA KUMAR Visalandhra Publishing House is celebrating its diamond jubilee. Flights is the third book by her that has been translated in English, and since then has received much acclaim.Arasam and Visalandhra Publishing House members presenting ‘Visala Sahiti Puraskaram’ to noted writer Olga at Visalandhra Publishing House diamond jubilee celebrations in Guntur on Friday.- Photo: T. Narratives as different as tracing the posthumous journey of Polish composer Chopin’s heart to Warsaw from Paris where he had died, or anatomist Philip Verheyen writing letters to his amputated leg find centrestage in her work as she infuses it with digressions and anecdotes.
The novel was originally published in 2008 and Tokarczuk’s work stands out for departing from form and conventions. Translated by Jennifer Croft, her novel interweaves diverse stories of travelling, mobility and movement and uses them as a metaphor for life itself.
Tokarczuk, the author of Flights, had also won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize last year. The prolific Austrian novelist, on the other hand, has been conferred this prestigious prize for “he peculiar art of Peter Handke, awarded the 2019 #NobelPrize in Literature, is the extraordinary attention to landscapes and the material presence of the world, which has made cinema and painting two of his greatest sources of inspiration.” Handke has written novels like A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Short Letter, Long Farewell.ĪLSO READ | Olga Tokarczuk wins Man Booker Prize 2018: Other novels by the Polish author Tokarczuk has been awarded the Nobel Prize “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”. #NobelPrize /CeKNz1oTSBĪLSO READ | Poland’s Olga Tokarczuk wins Man Booker Prize 2018 The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk.