Mercy Margaret
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Mercy Margaret | |
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| Born | Mercy Margaret Boda 23 August 1983 Hyderabad (Undivided Andhra Pradesh) |
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| Occupation | Lecturer |
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| Language | Telugu |
| Genre | Dalit literature |
| Subjects | Poetry, Short stories |
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Movement | Humanist |
Mercy Margaret is a poet, short story writer and a social worker from Hyderabad, India. She emerged as a poet through her poems published on Facebook and became famous after receiving the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar Award[1] for her first Telugu poetry book "Matala Madugu" in 2017.
Awards and achievements
[edit]She won the first prize in the state level poetry competition conducted by Andhra Pradesh AIDS Control Society. She also won the monthly award for poetry from Sahiti Prasthanam. She received Penna Sahitya Puraskar in 2015.[2] She was awarded "Kendra Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar" in 2017 [3] for her Poetry anthology Maatala Madugu "మాటల మడుగు".[4]
Bibliography
[edit]- Poetry compilations
- Matala Madugu మాటల మడుగు (2015)
- Kalam Valipotunna vaipu కాలం వాలిపోతున్న వైపు (2019)
- Dear Zindagi డియర్ జిందగీ (2022)
- Uchchala Jaladhi Taranga ఉఛ్చాల జలధి తరంగ (2024)
- Yuddha Kaalapu Shoka Geetam యుద్ధ కాలపు శోక గీతం (2025)
- Short stories
- "Sunnaalu" సున్నాలు , published in Kotta Katha (2017)
- "Mattayi 5:11" మత్తయి 5:11, published in Kotta Katha (2019)
- "What religion is Darkness", published in Saranga web magazine
- "Natural" సహజ. This story won the Best Story award from the Vanguri Foundation in the United States, in the category of New Story writers.
- Drama
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mercy Margaret.
- ↑ "Mercy Margaret Boda".
- ↑ "Hyderabad Literary Festival 2019: Ninth edition to feature Shabana Azmi, Shashi Deshpande, Sahitya Academy winners from Telangana". Firstpost. 20 January 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ↑ Nadadhur, Srivathsan (26 June 2017). "I feel suffocated, can't sleep when I don't write, says Mercy Margaret". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ↑ "Writing for kids & poetry earn Sahitya Akademi honours for duo from Telangana". The Times of India. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
- ↑ "Higher footfall, more plays: Theatre is picking up in Hyderabad after COVID-19 gap". The News Minute. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
- ↑ "Clipping of Vaartha Telugu daily – Hyderabad City". epaper.vaartha.com. Retrieved 24 March 2022.