EntertainmentPhoto: Deccan HeraldRemembering Tripuraneni Gopichand, Telugu Writer and Filmmaker
Tripuraneni Gopichand, a noted Telugu writer, filmmaker, and intellectual, died on November 2, 1962, six years before his grandson was born. Son of rationalist-poet Tripuraneni Ramaswamy, he authored the first psychological novel in Telugu, Asamardhuni Jeevayatra, in 1947. His work Pandita Parameswara Sastry Veelunama won the Sahitya Akademi Award posthumously in 1963. He also contributed to Telugu cinema.
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